Practice Green Etiquette

[BigBoy]

It is an awfully good practice area, especially for a muni isn't it?

It is FANTASTIC for a free public space. Much closer to my house than the practice facility in Bellevue too - although that place is a great place to work on longer chips, Harpeth Valley golf center I think its called. I lived here for a year before I even knew it existed.

McCabe's course is a ton of fun too - talk about low pressure off the tee, on a lot of holes, you can really put it anywhere and have a decent shot of recovering - the only thing you have to worry about is hitting someone or getting hit yourself

[zeg]

I also try to avoid "sharing" target holes when possible. Since the chipping "greens" at the courses I play are more like light rough, if there are people already using the targets, I'll just use a towel or ball bucket off to the side of the "green" instead. I like to take a shag bag (or, rather, borrow a range bucket to collect my own chipping practice balls in since I haven't yet invested in the shag bag) worth and use them, but if I'm sharing the space, it's just not practical to keep straight whose balls are whose. In that case, I just use 2-3 well-marked balls and I'd expect someone else to do the same. But, as long as they're nice about it, anything you can work out seems reasonable.

Best point in the thread so far: talk to them about it if it's bugging you, and ask before you do something that might bug them. That's far more important than any specific etiquette rule, and in my opinion communication is the fundamental basis for nearly all etiquette.

[flopdarock]

I don't know about you guys, but I don't want my balls touching some other dudes balls!

LOL... especially when he wants to share a hole

[Muttface]

...the only thing you have to worry about is hitting someone or getting hit yourself

Agreed. McCabe is probably my favorite of the local courses, but you're risking taking one in the melon especially on the weekend afternoons. I'm thinking of getting a hard hat or perhaps one of those pith helmets like the Brits used to wear.

[HSip]

LOL... especially when he wants to share a hole

You Sir are a scallywag (albeit a funny one)