Are you a fast, slow or average speed Player?

[MEfree]

The title says it all...explain your answer if you want.

I answered average based on taking a bit more time over the ball and figuring shots out than a lot of recreational players, but not wasting time by not being ready, etc.

[trackster]

Another one of these threads?  What is this like the 14th one now.  I can already tell you what you are going to see.  About 15% for the much faster than Average and the other 85% split between slightly faster than average and average.  No one on here thinks that they play slow, and if they do they aren't going to admit it.

[B-Con]

Average. I'm efficient at not wasting big chunks of time. I prepare to hit while others do, I move quickly between shots, and I don't stop to talk. I'm ready when it's my turn on the teebox, etc. But I do stand over shots for a bit, and I'll step back and re-address the ball occasionally. I'm sure I stand over the ball for longer than average (although nowhere near as insufferably bad as some of the pros). In my defense, it's hard to find the correct position of the ball, alignment, weight distribution, etc, for my stance, and sometimes I get into it completely wrong. At any rate, I keep working at it. I figure the two cancel out. I definitely play with much faster and slower players than myself. [quote name="trackster" url="/t/59628/are-you-a-fast-slow-or-average-speed-player#post_729958"]Another one of these threads?  What is this like the 14th one now.  I can already tell you what you are going to see.  About 15% for the much faster than Average and the other 85% split between slightly faster than average and average.  No one on here thinks that they play slow, and if they do they aren't going to admit it. [/quote] Slow players rarely think they're slow. And nobody in the world is a bad driver. We're all just a bit above average.

[Kapanda]

Does that mean I'm going to be the lone slightly slow vote?

[trackster]

Originally Posted by Kapanda

Does that mean I'm going to be the lone slightly slow vote?

I wouldn't say that on this forum.  You will be eaten alive.

[zipazoid]

Lemme put it this way. Gimme a cart & I can play 18 in under 2 hours, so you tell me what speed I play at. When me & My Man Mike play, we can do 18 in under 3 hours.

[mchepp]

No, I am slow as well. All the guys in my group give me a really hard time. I am not the slowest player, but I am in the bottom 1/3rd. There was a time I worked really hard on speeding up, but I started to play really bad. So I stopped.

I want to play faster, but I am just not able to manage playing faster and playing well. I think it stems from playing junior golf. We were always forced to play in the late afternoon where the golf course was at a crawl, so I learned to play by spending time taking practice swings, reading and re-reading a putt just because it didn't matter if I rushed because we were going to wait on the next tee anyways. So there was no point in learning to play fast.

I am not the worst offender, but I could learn to speed up a bit.

[Kieran123]

If a round of 18 as a foursome takes over 4 hours and 15 minutes - I think that is a slow round.

[Dave2512]

I'm fast. Last time I got out on a wide open course I finished 9 in 50 minutes. When I returned my cart to the cart barn the attendant couldn't believe it. I would have been done quicker than that but I caught up to a guy that looked to be in his 90's pulling his clubs. I had to wait on him to hole out on 8 and 9. Though I must admit the carts there are fast in the morning with a fresh charge.

[Kapanda]

With that, I'm glad I play at a course that is hardly ever busy. **** being rushed through the holes and having to keep up and all that. I get to take my time, every once in a while allow someone to play through, and enjoy the game more.

Also dislike playing with carts, takes something out of the game imo.

[Dave2512]

Originally Posted by Kapanda

Also dislike playing with carts, takes something out of the game imo.

I've heard that a lot. To each his own. Without a cart I would play much less than I do with my 70+ hours a week work schedule. To get 9 in before work requires getting up an hour early so I don't skip morning workout before I head to the course and that's still roughly 4 hours before I'm scheduled to be at work. If I had to walk something would have to be scratched or I'd have to wait until my only day off. Been working m-sat for 20 years. I play 4-5 a week always before or after work. The only time I don't use one is if I'm out practicing on the par 3. Though there are some longer par 3 tracks here that have cart paths. Besides I don't need more walking, I'm a 12-15k steps a day guy as it is.

[newtogolf]

I'm average, my goal is to keep up with the course.  I don't impose time limits or restrictions on myself, but respect that others might wish to play faster so I try to maintain pace.  If someone seems exceptions fast like most SandTrappers seem to be, then I'll let them play through.  Once golf becomes more stressful and rushed than work then I'll give up playing.

[Chief Broom]

Faster than average.  I can play faster than my usual pace and it doesn't seem to have a negative impact on my game.

My fastest round as a single walking 18 (I walk the vast majority of times I play) was 1:30.  To put it politely I was hauling ass.  I wanted to get in a quick 9 before work and the league that was about to tee off let me go off first but told me not to waste time.  That first foursome I knew were fast so I made it my business to stay a hole ahead of them no matter what.  I think I wound up shooting an 84 and that was a decent round for me.  The course is a short track (6k yards) and my usual pace walking there as a single is 2:30.  I finished the front 9 in under an hour so I decided to push through and see just how fast I could finish (and the fact that my round was going well helped too).  I was carrying my bag and I'd get to my ball and hit it; after hitting, my bag was on my back and I replaced my club on the go.  I wasn't running but someone else might have had to break into a run on occasion to keep up.  Time spent on the tees and greens was minimal and I left the flag stick in the cup (something I tend to do anyway when I'm playing by myself).  That's not a pace I'd want to have to maintain because my sole consideration in the round was keeping an open hole between myself and the speedy foursome behind me.  I was driving away from the course 1:45 after a got there on the dot!

I'm not a jack rabbit on the course as a rule.  4:00-4:30 rounds in a foursome are a pleasant pace for me.  You start going past 5 hours and that means you've been waiting to hit a significant percentage of the time, and that gets old, but I don't consider myself a speed freak even though I can play at a fairly fast pace if the need arises.

[Jameshooper]

I play a little slow, but I always try and keep up with the group in front of me. At my club playing 18 takes close to 4 hours most weekends.

[iacas]

Originally Posted by trackster

Another one of these threads?  What is this like the 14th one now.  I can already tell you what you are going to see.  About 15% for the much faster than Average and the other 85% split between slightly faster than average and average.  No one on here thinks that they play slow, and if they do they aren't going to admit it.

This is QFT.

I have left my house after my kid gets on the bus at 8:52, played 18 holes, and been back working on my computer when the clock changes to say 11:00. Putting everything out, etc.

[slodsm]

Faster than average. I usually play early mornings when a lot of people are out and I seem to be waiting on the groups in front of me. This afternoon I went out to play a quick 9 before it got dark, I started at 515 and at 630 I was loading up my truck and I was "taking my time" with no one in front or behind me.

[bplewis24]

I would put myself as faster but I don't know how to quantify it.  Not because I rush, but because I take measures to be ready to play as soon as it's my turn.  My routines may take as much time as a "slow players'" does, I just start doing it before they do.  The reason I can tell I'm faster is because I'm very conscious of when a player is spending time talking or otherwise lollygagging when they should be addressing their ball.