Do Slow Players Know They're Slow?

[rkim291968]

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Originally Posted by Aflighter

I think a good majority of slow play comes from playing badly.Lets be honest hear folks.Majority of golfers have a tough time breaking 90 and all them strokes take time and its frustrating for them.Unless someone is gonna pick up after triple bogey,they are going to take more time when struggling trying to figure it out.

This is a good point that it takes more time when you are hitting more shots. However, being a bad golfer should not be an excuse for slow play.  I've played with a lot of bad golfers over the last 50 years, but few, if any, of them were slow golfers.

As a bad golfer,  I can attest to it.  I am on a fast playing side.

In my home course where tee time interval is 10 mins, and marshals do a good job (well, majority of the times) in keeping the pace to < 4.5 hours, here's what I see.

The worst offenders (course is short but challenging with lots of places to lose balls, OB areas)

1. Company, or similar casual group tournaments - aarrrrrgh!  A lot of beginners or players who haven't played in a long time show up.
2. Tournaments where most of golfers playing the course for the 1st time.  Too many OBs, lost balls, bad shots, bad putts lead to slower pace than what they are capable of.
3. Regular tournaments.  Provision shots take time.  Putting takes time.  No gimmies.  All shots counted.  Scores checked.
4. Groups who are oblivious of their slow pace.  Even if they do, they don't care.
5. Groups with long but inaccurate hitters - finding balls, hitting provision.   Close tie with #6 below.
6. Groups with one or two beginners who won't pick up balls after their 7th, 8th, 9th shots.
7. And the rest of us.

[arturo28mx]

I see a lot of bad golfers trying to tee off with a driver and trying to hit balls off the fairway with a 3 wood or a 5 wood. Not surprisingly they simply cannot hit the ball with these difficult clubs. Either they hit fat, or thin or very short distances or  out of bounds or into the woods.

I tell them they are better off teeing off with an iron, same for hitting off the deck, but they never listen. They insist on using drivers and fairway woods even though they can't hit crap with them.

[Fourputt]

I see a lot of bad golfers trying to tee off with a driver and trying to hit balls off the fairway with a 3 wood or a 5 wood. Not surprisingly they simply cannot hit the ball with these difficult clubs. Either they hit fat, or thin or very short distances or  out of bounds or into the woods.

I tell them they are better off teeing off with an iron, same for hitting off the deck, but they never listen. They insist on using drivers and fairway woods even though they can't hit crap with them.

Since when is a 5W difficult to hit?

[Aflighter]

Since when is a 5W difficult to hit?

My thoughts exactly.I can hit my 4wd and 5wd as good as a lot can hit there 6iron or longer club.3wd,3-5 iron are harder to hit to me.Ive always hit woods better than the irons I guess because they have more mass .