Brad Faxon and Mike Clayton on Cart Riders

[iacas]

Curious as to your thoughts on these posts…

I'll add my own commentary later.

[dennyjones]

"Elitist" is my first thought but... we don't have enough information to make a thorough understanding.  Ya, the guys are young and using carts to golf. That's the only fact we have.  We can guess the reason they aren't walking but Brad Faxon's or Mike Clayton's opinion isn't relative to their golf round.   The younger golfers I know think the cart is part of the golfing experience.   Most have never walked 18.  

We can speculate why they are using carts but it's a waste of time.

[klineka]

Mike Clayton's tweet is pretty bad but somehow Faxon's is even worse. 

You want to have an opinion on if golf should be played with or without carts, fine. You're entitled to your opinion, whatever. 

But judging someone for how they're putting the tee in the ground? Get lost Faxon. 

[Vinsk]

4 hours ago, klineka said:

But judging someone for how they're putting the tee in the ground? Get lost Faxon. 

Maybe just a joke? Lighten up Francis….🙂

[klineka]

56 minutes ago, Vinsk said:

Maybe just a joke? Lighten up Francis….🙂

There wasn't any indication from either of those tweets that indicated they were jokes. Especially not based on subsequent replies on the topic.

[Missouri Swede]

Not a fan of calling people out for stuff like that. I generally like to walk, but ...

I have always used a cart the first time I played a course.  If it's easily walkable, then maybe the next time I'll walk it. But first time out, too many variables that I don't know about where my shot might go (or roll or bounce) that a cart is nice.

Also depends on the "traffic." If it's going to be 5.5 hours, that gets tiring just standing around that long--sometimes I don't need a cart for the walking distance, but rather for a place to sit around for the extra hours out on the course. (Yeah, I could put a seat on my Clicgear, but I haven't.)

Final factor--temperature and humidity. I have on occasion found myself exceeding my physical heat tolerance limits at my home course and now will use a cart in temperatures that I would walk when I was 10 years younger.

[iacas]

1 hour ago, Vinsk said:

Maybe just a joke? Lighten up Francis….🙂

Kevin, it didn't look like a joke at all, and even if it was… what's funny about it?

They're gatekeeping. Sure, you can think that golf is best enjoyed while walking, but at the end of the day, I think both of those people would rather those people be playing golf than not, regardless of whether they're in a cart or walking.

[GolfLug]

Many public courses won't let golfers walk. Especially on weekends for 'time management'. Then charge $20 for the cart..... per rider. I think it is bit of a money grab. IIRC there's a thread on this here.

I'm surprised he didn't say something derogatory about there being only three bags. Lol.

Edited 4 hours ago by GolfLug

[iacas]

Whispering Woods doesn't really let people walk, and the cart fee is part of the greens fee.

[Vinsk]

15 hours ago, iacas said:

Kevin, it didn't look like a joke at all, and even if it was… what's funny about it?

They're gatekeeping. Sure, you can think that golf is best enjoyed while walking, but at the end of the day, I think both of those people would rather those people be playing golf than not, regardless of whether they're in a cart or walking.

I didn’t read the comments so maybe I’m missing how this came across during an exchange, but as I think the first post was dumb, I thought Faxon’s was just poking fun at how the guy was uncomfortably squatting to tee/pick up his tee.

[iacas]

1 hour ago, Vinsk said:

I didn’t read the comments so maybe I’m missing how this came across during an exchange, but as I think the first post was dumb, I thought Faxon’s was just poking fun at how the guy was uncomfortably squatting to tee/pick up his tee.

It's a reply to the quote-tweet from Mike Clayton.