Name Something Your Course Can Do to Improve Golf

[Dave2512]

Rolled greens, that's a good one.

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I would educate players with a sort of golf museum/history sign at every tee that would be changed every so on.

- one essential rule of golf

- one etiquette point (like how to fix a pitch mark correctly or manage pace of play)

- one great moment of golf history

[phan52]

Aerate the entire golf course, not just the tees, fairways and greens. It will vastly improve turf conditions.

[DrvFrShow]

Oh, and one last thing....

They have camera on the first tee, and call people to the tee box after the previous foursome has hit their second shot. What they don't realize is that this causes gridlock at the second hole, a 170 yd - 195 yd (white) par 3. That's a long par 3, and is usually a bogey or double bogey from the whites for your average player. And there are usually two to three groups waiting to tee off. The course self-regulates from there.

Why don't they simply be proactive and regulate this at the first tee? Have their non-existent marshal time how long it takes people to play the second hole, and space the tee times accordingly?

[Golfingdad]

Oh, and one last thing....

They have camera on the first tee, and call people to the tee box after the previous foursome has hit their second shot. What they don't realize is that this causes gridlock at the second hole, a 170 yd - 195 yd (white) par 3. That's a long par 3, and is usually a bogey or double bogey from the whites for your average player. And there are usually two to three groups waiting to tee off. The course self-regulates from there.

Why don't they simply be proactive and regulate this at the first tee? Have their non-existent marshal time how long it takes people to play the second hole, and space the tee times accordingly?

One of the local (ish) courses I like to play does something like this.  They also have a medium-to-long par 3 as their second hole so the starter tells you when you get to the tee not to start hitting tee shots until all of the group in front of you is on the green.  It's a small sample size because I've only played their 3 or 4 times, but we've never had pacing problems there.

[imsys0042]

Take a bulldozer to certain parts of my home course.   It's one of the courses that are frequently listed as "problems with declining golf".   It's a beautifully kept course, but it's ridiculously tough, one of the hardest in the region.   Once you have been there a while you learn how to play it, but it's gotcha golf.   OB all over the place and playing the same ball for 18 is considered a rarity.

Thing is, that it's so hard that they do resort course drop zones and hazards.   They have artificial OB to speed up play, and they use very, very liberal reasoning to mark things as lateral hazards to speed up play.   Instead of perhaps doing some work on the course to adjust it to make it more playable.   It has about 8 illegal drop zones (zones where the drop is on the other side of the hazard in question) and many places where it's artificial OB so that people don't spend a lot of time looking for balls.

I've started not using those drops, although I can't justify ignoring the obvious mis-done O.B.   Lot of great design features, I'll give it that.   But man, I don't know how they get away with some of the things they have done for marking the course.

[RGoosen]

I would educate players with a sort of golf museum/history sign at every tee that would be changed every so on. - one essential rule of golf - one etiquette point (like how to fix a pitch mark correctly or manage pace of play) - one great moment of golf history

don't forget... -"while we're young"