Honors or Ready to hit GO?

[RickPro]

Do you guys play honors where if they had the lowest score on the previous hole you let them hit 1st? or If your ready to hit, you just run up to the tee and hit and keep things moving and keep pace?

how about in the fairways? further away or whoever is ready to hit just hit?

[Harry Longshanks]

Ready golf. Always.

[m11]

with friends, ready golf


if im put into a group by a starter...i keep honors and play standard fairway etiquette

[Shindig]

Ready golf almost always! In the event of a score under par for a hole, we offer the birdie recipient the honors, but I've yet to hear a response other than "no, ready golf, but thanks" or equivalent.

[alf174]

  RickPro said:

Do you guys play honors where if they had the lowest score on the previous hole you let them hit 1st? or If your ready to hit, you just run up to the tee and hit and keep things moving and keep pace?

Honors and farthest away unless there is someone behind us than ready (rare). Goal in my regular group for each of us is to keep the tee box honor.

[popey]

Got to be honors as everyone should be ready to hit on the tee. Also if come to a par 3 and not sure what club to use it seems some people seem to find something they need to do in there bag. This means they get the advantage of playing last.

Play honors and stick to the rules/etiquette!

[Anand]

It we're not behind on the course, then it's honours always. It's an important part of the game. If we're holding people up, then sure, ready golf until we've caught up.

Personally, if I have the honour and am not ready on the next tee when I should be, I generally ask whomever is ready first to hit.

For the vast majority if the time, however, I like to respect the game's traditions.

//Anand

[ERC7.5]

Combination like most of the other posts. Ready golf if necessary. Otherwise, honors and whomever is away.

[Alex B]

With my friends in summer: Honors, and whoever is away (with a few exceptions to speed up play).

With my friends in spring (on the golf team): Honors, but I always hit last because I'm almost always the scorekeeper and our coach likes us to play extremely fast (so we won't waste the ten seconds it takes me to write down the scores).

With my grandfather and cousin: I always hit first because I'm playing a tee farther back, and the other two don't really care.

In general, I like the honors system and the tenet that the farthest from the hole hit. Although I support the idea of ready golf in general, I find that there's often confusion when someone nearer to the hole gets ready to hit: after going through his preshot routine, the person nearer to the hole will often see the person farther from the hole standing by his ball and let him hit, creating an effect opposite of what is desired (it slows down play).

[Uthinkso]

In league play honors, unless we're putting. At that time, especially with a long putt. I tell people to go ahead if they have a line, I'm not committed yet.

As for friendly golf, its ready play but making sure not to leave anyone behind of risk getting hit. I know it sounds like a no brainer, but I see every week.

[terp2007]

If I'm playing with friends, it is ready golf. If it is people I don't know, I plays honors until I feel them out to see if they care.

[MRW]

Honors and farthest away unless there's a hurry.

[pjsnyc]

Ready golf unless paired with strangers.

[mellojoe]

We play honors from the fairways and greens. But tee'ing off its just whoever is ready.

And, we're not that strict about honors, really. If someone is standing over their putt/chip looking, thinking, looking thinking, someone who's ready will just go ahead and go (as long as they are not in the first guys way, obviously). Or, if you have a great approach and you are right near the pin for a tap-in, and the rest of us are struggling to get out of the rough, go ahead and tap-in and then watch the rest of us while trying not to gloat.

[DJYoshi]

it really depends on the group that i'm playing with. IF it's a slow group, then I say ready golf. If i'm playing with serious players, then we play honors and distance from the green.
Most of the time it's a hybrid of the 2 whenever I play with ppl I don't know.
whoever got the par, birdie or eagle on the hole b4 gets the tee. but then if nobody else scored the hole before it's ready set golf.

[Bourbon and Coke]

We generally play honors for the first tee shot, and then it's ready golf (some people keep more detailed scores, for example, and want the time to update their card before teeing off.)

We play ready golf in the fairway as long as you aren't in someone's way.

[MunkeyGolfer]

honors and further away. It was how I was taught.

[redi630]

I am a big fan of "ready golf" and try to establish it on the first hole if I am playing with people I don't usually play with.