Headcover Use?

[StuM]

When riding  I usually take them off and put in the basket till the end of the round……..then at some time I am in a hurry after a round and leave them in the cart never to be seen again.

[Double Mocha Man]

4 hours ago, pganapathy said:

 I definitely keep the driver/woods/hybrid covers on all the time. 

Doesn't that muffle the sound of your drives? 😄

[billchao]

I always put my head covers back after every shot when I walk. I never put them back when I ride.

Except for my putter - that cover gets put back on after I’m done using it.

[ChetlovesMer]

1 hour ago, Double Mocha Man said:

Doesn't that muffle the sound of your drives? 😄

As my Grandfather used to say "There are 10,000 comedians out of work and you're trying to be one of them." 

[Double Mocha Man]

3 minutes ago, ChetlovesMer said:

As my Grandfather used to say "There are 10,000 comedians out of work and you're trying to be one of them." 

😄

[ChetlovesMer]

2 minutes ago, Double Mocha Man said:

😄

Ironically, Grandpa thought of himself as a bit of a comedian. 

[Double Mocha Man]

15 minutes ago, ChetlovesMer said:

Ironically, Grandpa thought of himself as a bit of a comedian. 

Well, I'm still employed as a comedy writer. I write comedy routines for the CPS system 😁

Edited March 4 by Double Mocha Man

[pganapathy]

17 hours ago, Double Mocha Man said:

Doesn't that muffle the sound of your drives? 😄

Kinda depends where I connect the ball.  I have a hole in the covers at the sweet spot and try to get a non-muffled noise 🤣

[Carl3]

I found this on my feed this morning:

Some great responses include:

[tehuti]

Unless I am holding up the group behind me, which is almost never, I will put my headcover back on after using the club. It doesn't take up that much time.

[jmanbooyaa]

It takes less than 5 seconds to put a head cover on

[sjduffers]

20 hours ago, jmanbooyaa said:

It takes less than 5 seconds to put a head cover on

If you also have iron covers (another sore subject), let's say that's 52 times in a round that you need to spend those 5 seconds, plus another 18 times after finishing putting, for a total of 70x5 = 350 seconds, nearly 11 minutes. Now, if your 3 other buddies do the same, it's a whopping 45 minutes total. 

Now, before you say this is crap and everything, yes I agree, to a point. As long as any of those actions are taking place in parallel to something that had to take place already, the time spent is effectively zero. Things like starting to walk and push your cart, while putting the head cover on at the same time (many folks don't do that: they slide the head cover on, then putt the club back in the bag and then they start walking). Or, putting a cover on while your buddy is still playing his shot, or walking back from the green, etc..

This is true of many little things, like putting one's glove on, getting a yardage with a rangefinder, putting a club back in the bag (instead of hoping in the cart, and doing it at the next stop when pulling out the next club), etc... All these things and many more only take 5 seconds or less, but they can take zero time effectively, if done while an overlapping (needed) activity also takes place.  Otherwise, it all adds up. So does keeping the cart (or push cart) on the wrong side of the green, writing down the score at the green, etc...

Edited April 13 by sjduffers

[jmanbooyaa]

That is very unrealistic 

[boogielicious]

1 hour ago, sjduffers said:

If you also have iron covers (another sore subject), let's say that's 52 times in a round that you need to spend those 5 seconds, plus another 18 times after finishing putting, for a total of 70x5 = 350 seconds, nearly 11 minutes. Now, if your 3 other buddies do the same, it's a whopping 45 minutes total.

You’re making the assumption that this is done in sequence with this math. We can all put our head covers on at the same time or while the other guy is hitting or as we are walking to our cart. It’s not like we sit down to put the cover or our drivers and stop everyone else from playing.

[sjduffers]

20 minutes ago, boogielicious said:

You’re making the assumption that this is done in sequence with this math. We can all put our head covers on at the same time or while the other guy is hitting or as we are walking to our cart. It’s not like we sit down to put the cover or our drivers and stop everyone else from playing.

Yes, I said that much. That's about the worst case possible, not that it actually happens in real life. But as you see, 45 minutes is a very large number. Even if it is only 10 minutes in reality, it is still noticeable. QED.

The case I describe of a walker putting his head cover back on and then the club back in the bag before he start walking away so I can hit behind him is very real, and more frequent than you might think.

Even with a cart, I see people doing this and it slows down the group behind (me!), waiting for the cart to clear out. It's not like the player is taking the club with him in the cart, and drive away to put the head cover back on later, as he could/should. That extra 5 second is impacting the group behind, a lot of the time.

[KMP]

On 4/13/2022 at 1:52 PM, sjduffers said:

Yes, I said that much. That's about the worst case possible, not that it actually happens in real life. But as you see, 45 minutes is a very large number. Even if it is only 10 minutes in reality, it is still noticeable. QED.

The case I describe of a walker putting his head cover back on and then the club back in the bag before he start walking away so I can hit behind him is very real, and more frequent than you might think.

Even with a cart, I see people doing this and it slows down the group behind (me!), waiting for the cart to clear out. It's not like the player is taking the club with him in the cart, and drive away to put the head cover back on later, as he could/should. That extra 5 second is impacting the group behind, a lot of the time.

So why do my wife and I play faster than 95%+ of players on our courses when we both replace covers on woods and putters?

[Double Mocha Man]

5 minutes ago, KMP said:

So why do my wife and I play faster than 95%+ of players on our courses when we both replace covers on woods and putters?

That's a loaded question.  😀  I think the fuss here is the use of headcovers for irons.  If you did that it would move you down a percentile or more.

[KMP]

1 minute ago, Double Mocha Man said:

That's a loaded question.  😀  I think the fuss here is the use of headcovers for irons.  If you did that it would move you down a percentile or more.

Ohhh...I would never use headcovers on irons. It is only an opinion but it is just wrong...haha