Most frustrating round ever...

[elivate]

Played Sunday and it was excruciating...

I have a playing partner that I go with fairly regularly and we usually just get paired up with another twosome, this was the case Sunday... This is always fine with me...

Sunday we play with a coupe and the guy starts off bad, slices his drive into trouble right, no big deal.. But, he loks for his ball forever... She leaves her ball which was just shy of my drive, walks back 50 yards and begins to help... Finally she finds it after heading back to hear ball, and he is halfway across the fairway getting ready to drop, so thej he walks back across and gets ready to play his ball... I then wait for her to go through her routine, then I get to hit and chunk my wedge! Nothig more frustrating then waiting 10 minutes to hit and doing that... I should have played my shot ahead of them... hindsight...

Anyway, I can't let it go and then I proceed to triple bogey the hole, after a perfect drive... stupid...

The kicker is that we get to the next tee and the group ahead still has not finished up...

This is turning inot the slowest round I have ever played... We get to the tee on the 11th hole and my partner checks his watch... 3 hours!!

The group ahead of us is pathetically slow, poor etiquate, have no idea what they are doing... the girl we are playing with says it is open two holes ahead of them, so me and my partner say screw it and we drive to the 13th tee... well we get there and there is a group on the green and a group on the tee! So now we were screwed so we decide to just head in to the clubhouse, as we drive by the finishing holes the entire course is gridlock... No marshals in sight...

I guess that is the price you pay to play on a public course... but this was the worst I have ever seen...

end rant...

[TCCcaddie]

Public Courses really need to start enforcing pace of play rules with more marshalls and course rangers. Pace of play rules are there for a reason, to make the round more enjoyable for all people on the course. If courses are going to let pace of play become a non-issue than more instances like what elivate described are going to become more common and that is only hurting courses and golf.

[Fon Duc Tow]

Played Sunday and it was excruciating...

For you long-time golfers.... the recent popularity surge with golf, coupled with the baby boomers all retiring... ...party's over.

[elivate]

What really makes me mad about it is the course management. They love raking in the green fees but they never have a marshal on full time. What they do is ask regular players if they will marshal in return for free golf...

I like playing the course, and if two of us get out early enough in the morning we can play 18 in 3 - 3 1/2 hours easily, so Sunday was just completely unnaceptable...

My only other options are courses that require a long haul to get there or the local "country club" and I can't afford $400 a round, that is what a membership would end up costing me with the number of rounds I manage to play each summer... oh well, gonna have to suck it up I guess...

[iPutt]

Dude you have noooo idea. Funny you should mention this because I had the same experiance yesterday. Probably even worse.

What happened was me and my friend do the same thing as you, pair up with another twosome when we get there. Well first off our tee time is 20 minutes late. Then there just happens to be a group of four old ladies 2 groups infront. Turns out that 2 of the women in their group have never played before. They also never gave up on looking for their ball (God forbid they lose one of their 12 for $10 Noodles) and read their putts like it was the final hole of the PGA Championship. To give you an idea of how slow they were, after 4 holes we had been on the course for 2 HOURS!!!

Only to make things worse, they refused to let us play through. They complained that they had already let 2 groups go infront of them. I felt like screaming at them "Don't you think that there's a reason that 2 groups have played through!!". Finally we had to skip the tenth hole (yeah we waited that long) and just left them in the dust.

The thing was for the first nine I was shooting so bad because I couldn't find a groove. It's a good thing we went ahead when we did though because it was pitch black out just as we got off 18.

All said and done, 6 hours....