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  1. 1. When riding in a cart, do you prefer to drive or be the passenger?

    • I prefer to drive.
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    • I like to be the passenger.
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    • I don't care one way or the other.
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I hate being the passenger. Today I was the passenger on one of my home courses, and the driver was a guy who hadn't ever played there before. I drove as much as possible, but the rest of the time I was giving him directions. He never parked close at all to my ball, left the cart in funny spots when I was walking, etc. He's a good guy and all, but it drove me nuts.

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i have to drive. though, i like to grab my wedge and putter and walk the last leg while the other person drives to their ball.
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I can't really drive, or I'm not supposed to...so I rarely do.

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I don't have to drive, but I'd rather. I have an added reason to be the driver, I lost the hearing in my left ear in an accident a couple years back, so if the person riding in the cart with me expects me to hear any of our converation I had better be on his left, hence behind the wheel.
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I would rather drive, unless the person I'm with knows what they are doing. There is nothing worse than riding with a guy who has no idea where your ball is, or for that matter his own. I played with a guy a couple weeks ago on my golf trip and he would go to his ball every time, even if I was on the right and he was left or on the occasion he hit it past me.
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I don't get my permit for a another few months, so I'm technically not supposed to drive, although I do in short increments. Sometimes my dad gets out of the cart and looks for his ball, but it ends up being farther up, so I drive up to him. Or sometimes he hits and just wants to walk to the green, so I drive then too.

I prefer passenger. More focus on the beautiful surroundings, and for me, I don't have to worry about not crashing the cart.

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  iacas said:
I hate being the passenger. Today I was the passenger on one of my home courses, and the driver was a guy who hadn't ever played there before. I drove as much as possible, but the rest of the time I was giving him directions. He never parked close at all to my ball, left the cart in funny spots when I was walking, etc. He's a good guy and all, but it drove me nuts.

I have to drive. Or invariably the other guy will drive to his ball leaving me a 100+ yard walk to mine with someone behind waiting. And when I get there I find out I have the wrong club even if I took three or four clubs.

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I dont even have my drivers license yet, so this is all i get to drive, of course i always wanna drive. I drive all the time.
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  iacas said:
I hate being the passenger. Today I was the passenger on one of my home courses, and the driver was a guy who hadn't ever played there before. I drove as much as possible, but the rest of the time I was giving him directions. He never parked close at all to my ball, left the cart in funny spots when I was walking, etc. He's a good guy and all, but it drove me nuts.

Yeah. If it's a course I've played before - and it usually is, since I'm not taking many golf vacations yet - I'd prefer to drive the cart.

The one time I'd prefer to be passenger is when my friend has played the course before and I haven't. This happened to me recently when I went to PGA SoCal, but other than that, I'd rather drive.

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  iacas said:
I hate being the passenger. Today I was the passenger on one of my home courses, and the driver was a guy who hadn't ever played there before. I drove as much as possible, but the rest of the time I was giving him directions. He never parked close at all to my ball, left the cart in funny spots when I was walking, etc. He's a good guy and all, but it drove me nuts.

great thread by the way iacas.

I verily ever ride a cart (only when I play with older people I do) but it's amazing how many people do not know how to drive a cart around a course, and how to place the cart around your ball properly.......sounds stupid but being a Left handed golfer, I prefer the cart behind my back (as well as the stand bag when I walk) I don't want to have the cart or bag in front of me or for that matter a person either...(just 1 of my pet peeves I guess)

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It does not matter either way to me, I usually leave it up to my playing partner. But when I get in a rut of a few bad shots in a row, I like to slow things down by getting out of the cart and walking to my next few shots.

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I usually drive, except for one of my buddies who doesn't like my driving. He's 20 years older than me so I call him Grandpa and give him crap about being a geezer. :0) I actually prefer riding to driving if the other guy knows how to do it properly. I never let me wife drive if I can help it because she doesn't get it quite yet.

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i'm easy either way, but i used to love undoing the straps on my partners clubs and then telling him to floor it! priceless, how anyone can not p themselves when that happens. quality. i,ve been with people when they put buggys in the lakes, on the first at the belfry the guy driving put it pointing at the lake sitting on the left side of the green, he pushed the brake and heard it clip but it wasnt quite on enough! the rest of the round was postponed as we had to get the greeskeepers tractor and 2 other buggy to pull the thing out! he also had to get in to help push it out, so he got a bit wet.

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I don't mind either way. Each has its benefits
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i'm easy either way, but i used to love undoing the straps on my partners clubs and then telling him to floor it! priceless, how anyone can not p themselves when that happens. quality. i,ve been with people when they put buggys in the lakes, on the first at the belfry the guy driving put it pointing at the lake sitting on the left side of the green, he pushed the brake and heard it clip but it wasnt quite on enough! the rest of the round was postponed as we had to get the greeskeepers tractor and 2 other buggy to pull the thing out! he also had to get in to help push it out, so he got a bit wet.

Glad to hear you "used to" undo the straps.

Hearing a bag drop on a concrete golf path is a sickening sound. Oh...and I prefer to drive although if my partner 'has to' drive , I don't push the issue.

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