Music on the Course - When Did This Become a Thing?

[uitar9]

Listening to K and M on the way home tonight. John mentioned he now plays music while golfing. It drowns out the sound of his drive hitting the ground, LOl

[NCGolfer]

I'm with @iacas on this one.  Not a fan of music on the course.  We had our mens league a few weeks back and a guy started playing country music...I just turned around and said, "Really?".  Talk about insult to injury.

7 minutes ago, uitar9 said:

Listening to K and M on the way home tonight. John mentioned he now plays music while golfing. It drowns out the sound of his drive hitting the ground, LOl

I was at a tournament down here and Maginnes was playing.  Saw he had a massive device attached to his cart and didn't know what it was.  He showed it to me...it was a bluetooth double speaker that clipped together (magnets).

[Midpack]

I wouldn't like it, but I haven't encountered it within a foursome I've played with. OTOH, my home course is next to a high school, and the football team had AM practices for four weeks before school started at MAX volume, some of it with crude language. It was awful, and I'm surprised nearby residents and/or city officials permitted it. Fortunately schools are open again, so the blaring has stopped again.

[Piz]

When at golf; I prefer the music of the spheres...the small, dimpled, variety.  None else need apply.  There are enough cursing cries, and deep exclaims, to fill the void.

[uitar9]

1 hour ago, NCGolfer said:

I'm with @iacas on this one.  Not a fan of music on the course.  We had our mens league a few weeks back and a guy started playing country music...I just turned around and said, "Really?".  Talk about insult to injury.

I was at a tournament down here and Maginnes was playing.  Saw he had a massive device attached to his cart and didn't know what it was.  He showed it to me...it was a bluetooth double speaker that clipped together (magnets).

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[upndown21]

A couple guys in my weekend group play music. Most of us walk so it rarely is a problem. However I do not like sharing a cart with one who plays music. Rather spend time with nature.

[dennyjones]

If I'm playing golf with others, I don't like music.    Even when I'm playing at a fast pace by myself, I don't listen to music.   If it is going to be a slow day and I'm waiting on another group for an extended period of time, I'll play some music.  I'll play it quiet enough so that I only hear in in my cart.

[jsgolfer]

Just curious, for those who don't like music on the course, is it only when it's in your foursome or is it anytime you hear music?  I don't blare my music, you'd have to get right next to my cart to hear it and if you did it would be for fleeting seconds as I drive by.  

[Jeremie Boop]

3 minutes ago, jsgolfer said:

Just curious, for those who don't like music on the course, is it only when it's in your foursome or is it anytime you hear music?  I don't blare my music, you'd have to get right next to my cart to hear it and if you did it would be for fleeting seconds as I drive by.  

I think it's more that most people aren't as courteous as you with their volume level. I can usually hear people's music from across a fairway or even from another hole. I don't really like for people to listen to music in my group when playing, but I can deal with it as long as it's not in my cart and the volume is low. I get  to play so few rounds with other people that I'm definitely much more flexible than I used to be about things like this.

[David in FL]

1 minute ago, jsgolfer said:

Just curious, for those who don't like music on the course, is it only when it's in your foursome or is it anytime you hear music?  I don't blare my music, you'd have to get right next to my cart to hear it and if you did it would be for fleeting seconds as I drive by.  

Yep, here too.  I'm trying to remember, but I don't think I've ever heard music loud enough from someone else's cart that I noticed it unless I was parked right next to them, or, as you said, driving close by and it was gone in 5 seconds.  I've certainly never heard music from a cart that wasn't part of my group, and I'm equally sure that no one, not in our group could possibly hear ours.

Of course, if we pull up to another group ahead of us on the tee, the music goes down/off.  But absent that type of unusual proximity, nobody would ever know that we even have music playing.

[jsgolfer]

Just now, David in FL said:

Yep, here too.  I'm trying to remember, but I don't think I've ever heard music loud enough from someone else's cart that I noticed it unless I was parked right next to them, or, as you said, driving close by and it was gone in 5 seconds.  I've certainly never heard music from a cart that wasn't part of my group, and I'm equally sure that no one, not in our group could possibly hear ours.

Of course, if we pull up to another group ahead of us on the tee, the music goes down/off.  But absent that type of unusual proximity, nobody would ever know that we even have music playing.

I do this too, if there are other people on the tee when I drive up to the green or near where I will be, I turn it down as well.

Edited August 29, 2017 by jsgolfer

[Groucho Valentine]

Ive played with a couple guys who like to stream music in their carts. TBH, it doesn't bother me at all. I think its kinda fun sometimes. Steady noise doesn't disturb me on the course. What would disturb me is somebody blasting music then suddenly shut it off while i was trying to play.

[scotth]

Might be different because of work.  I spend most of my day on phone, average about 80 calls a day, or talking to people face to face in loud kitchens and restaurants.  So when I get on the golf course during the week really want quiet.  

Don't mind it on the weekend so much as long as it is fairly low volume.  Don't like it when I am sitting on deck relaxing and hear competing music quite loudly on # 2 green (by my house) and # 13 fairway which runs parallel.  

[Midpack]

If a foursome likes music, who cares if other groups can't hear it. And if one player likes music, just wear earbuds and drop one out when you need to hear others/something. But a group or individual shouldn't assume others like music on the golf course, I assume many clubs don't permit it (if they're told).

[Lihu]

I should bring a snare drum with me onto the course and say that L/R paradiddles helps me relax. Takes 10 strokes off my game per round. . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Marty2019]

2 hours ago, jsgolfer said:

Just curious, for those who don't like music on the course, is it only when it's in your foursome or is it anytime you hear music?  I don't blare my music, you'd have to get right next to my cart to hear it and if you did it would be for fleeting seconds as I drive by.  

For me, hearing someone else's music (not just on the course, but any time) is like smelling someone else's cologne.  It's pollution.  It's invading my space.  Why can't people just use ear buds?   Why blast it into the air where I have to hear it?  It's obnoxious. 

[David in FL]

6 minutes ago, Lihu said:

I should bring a snare drum with me onto the course and say that L/R paradiddles helps me relax. Takes 10 strokes off my game per round. . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

As long as it didn't intrude on anyone else, I say knock yourself out!  

[Kalnoky]

Just now, Marty2019 said:

For me, hearing someone else's music (not just on the course, but any time) is like smelling someone else's cologne.  It's pollution.  It's invading my space.  Why can't people just use ear buds?   Why blast it into the air where I have to hear it?  It's obnoxious. 

Yep. 

People are doing this at the range now too. I bring ear plugs to tune out the music (and some of the obnoxious little kids that dads get stuck with).