Making tee times for you and your wife/girlfriend..

[rehmwa]

23 minutes ago, NM Golf said:

On a completely empty golf course I don't think there is any reason to put people together, BUT... what you consider an empty golf course and what I consider an empty golf course may be two different things. Like I said I always try to keep twosomes who want to play as two by themselves. It doesn't always work out and sometimes they come in mad or want a refund etc. Their perception was it's and empty course and I am being an ass. What they don't know is if I put them together I had to because its not as empty a course as they think it is.

I think great starters like you are probably the norm and thank you for being one - you might run into someone obstinate rarely, but it does happen.

Actually - I've yet to meet a starter that wasn't just great, and friendly, and normally a bit chatty - which makes my experience super nice.  That said, the track record for great employees INSIDE the clubhouse tends to be a lot lower in my experience (I play the entire range from goat tracks to high end courses).  But that's not a big deal, just be nice to them regardless, you won't see them after you pay and go out.  And it makes me appreciate the good ones even more.  Starters and rangers tend to be the more social ones and that's the bulk of interaction when there is some.

Edited November 8, 2017 by rehmwa

[Kalnoky]

Before I joined the Men's Club and nobody knew me, the starter would look at me sideways if I showed up alone. I always ask if there is a group going from the Green tees (6000) I would prefer to wait and join with them. This usually elicits a patronizing chuckle from the starter. Or they can't understand why I want to wait for another group. After I joined the Men's Club and some of the more popular members took me under wing then everyone else fell in line, including the starters.

I guess my point is, accomplished players are very often highly insensitive and forgetful about the long hard road to good golf. When you are starting out you can't help other players look for their ball; you can't carry on in casual conversation with the guys, because every ounce of you is trying to focus and remember your posture, your grip, etc. People will give you swing advice you don't understand and then you feel like you're letting them down. At least I know I was not a good playing partner as a beginner. I was very quiet and just doing everything I could to keep up, and not hold up the group. It was really hard, I am surprised I stuck it out.

[NM Golf]

47 minutes ago, Kalnoky said:

Before I joined the Men's Club and nobody knew me, the starter would look at me sideways if I showed up alone. I always ask if there is a group going from the Green tees (6000) I would prefer to wait and join with them. This usually elicits a patronizing chuckle from the starter. Or they can't understand why I want to wait for another group. After I joined the Men's Club and some of the more popular members took me under wing then everyone else fell in line, including the starters.

I guess my point is, accomplished players are very often highly insensitive and forgetful about the long hard road to good golf. When you are starting out you can't help other players look for their ball; you can't carry on in casual conversation with the guys, because every ounce of you is trying to focus and remember your posture, your grip, etc. People will give you swing advice you don't understand and then you feel like you're letting them down. At least I know I was not a good playing partner as a beginner. I was very quiet and just doing everything I could to keep up, and not hold up the group. It was really hard, I am surprised I stuck it out.

I'm going out on a limb here but you sound like you might be a little too sensitive? Perhaps a bit thin skinned? 

[Kalnoky]

54 minutes ago, NM Golf said:

I'm going out on a limb here but you sound like you might be a little too sensitive? Perhaps a bit thin skinned? 

Nah. I took plenty of sh* when I'm started out and I'm still playing golf. There is a healthy number of jerks out there, I hear it when I play with them. We've all heard it. Anyone who says they haven't is a liar. I don't blame a beginner for wanting to play alone with her spouse. If my spouse was a 5 handicap I'd have done the exact same thing. My brother's wife asked me about playing golf the other day. My first thought was I'm going to take them myself so they don't have to go out alone.