Quitting a round early - Why Would You Quit?

[Jeremie Boop]

I ran out of golf balls on the back nine, didn't see the point in paying club house price for more when I was having a bad day so I just walked to the car. Other than that I never quit a round early.

Edited March 2, 2016 by Jeremie Boop

[billchao]

Slow play. 3 1/2 hours for 9 is not a round I want to finish and I've walked off several times due to that. I'd play 18 in rain before I play 18 in 7 hours.

[BuckeyeNut]

I've played 1,000s of rounds over the past 25 years and 99.9% of the time I quit without finishing is because of slow play.  I've cut rounds short more times than I count due to slow play!!

I have a membership with unlimited play privileges so it's not like I fork out $50 every time I put a peg in the ground.  I play several times a week when the days are long.   I play early on the weekends so the pace of play is never an issue, but I also play a few times a week in the evenings and you never know what you're going to get!! (with regard to pace of play)  If the course is "Stacked up" in a bad way on a random weekday/weekend evening.......I get the hell out of there!!  LOL  If I find a gap, I'll skip to a different part of the course.   Not playing is the last resort.......

 

 

[zipazoid]

Any of a variety of reasons, but the main thing (for me) is, I only quit early if I'm playing alone. For ex, last week I played 9, hit my tee ball on 10 then decided okay, that's enough. Wasn't playing badly or anything, just had enough.

But if I'm playing with others, I hang in there as long as they do. Bad form to cut out on a group early.

[jkelley9]

The only time I've stopped was playing 9 walking single last 2 hours of play and I had played a little too much the days before and was very tired and hitting the ball horribly. My focus was completely gone, my form and everything was just garbage and I couldn't bring it back even though I knew what I was doing. This is usually because my legs start to get a little wobbly and they drop during my downswing from fatigue and I hit it fat. 

There was one time I almost walked off was because I was being a 2-some couple of college kids who were NOT very good but insisted on playing like they were in the pros. They were playing at about a 3 hour pace for 9 holes (with cart) and they refused to let me walk through (at a 1.5 hour pace max... walking). The only reason I didn't walk off was because the front 9 doesn't swing back to the clubhouse area except for #3 where I caught up to them on #4. Also, I didn't have much going on that day so I decided to just chill and enjoy being outside in the beautiful weather.

[Natural Patrick]

On 2/8/2016 at 11:39 AM, tosob said:

Slow play. When you start the day with two open holes for your foursome and you get to 12 and there is 2 foursomes waiting on the tee off, it's time to jump to the bar.

This ^^

On 3/3/2016 at 7:04 PM, billchao said:

Slow play. 3 1/2 hours for 9 is not a round I want to finish and I've walked off several times due to that. I'd play 18 in rain before I play 18 in 7 hours.

I'm with you bill, been there and done that.