NM Golf

I work at the busiest golf course in New Mexico. We do over 150,000 rounds a year. We take tee times 7 days in advance we will be booked solid from 6:30-10:00am by 8:00am the week before.

As someone who works at a golf course, this practice is extremely irritating. It causes us to miss out on revenue and it also makes it so others miss out on the opportunity to play. Side note: I really enjoy adding people from the waiting list to groups that do this.

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My Sunday group we throw $20 in and play skins and greenies. Occasionally, we throw in an extra 10 and play a group vs group best two balls match. Within our foursome we play skins and greenies and we normally play 6 hole "robins" which are match play.

Exactly, and don’t forget the sound they were making off his putter face. I think I’ll pass.

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@CraigF has only been gone a day, but I miss him already.... Did I miss it or did no one point out the obvious, like I really want to ruin my $175 OC tennis shoes by super gluing a bunch of little rubber cleats on the bottom and then using them to trudge around my wet, muddy golf course.

I would argue someone plays THE drums, and the "the" is an ellipsis? Nobody has ever played the golf. I fear this conversation has gone off the rails...🥴

Oh I'm sooo arguing with the dictionary! 🤬 Damn you New Oxford!!!

Perhaps the issue is in the fact that no one has ever played weightlift or played fish, or played race, or played bowl. Bowling, weightlifting, fishing, and racing are both nouns and verbs in their -ing form whereas golfing is really just a verb and golf is the noun? Golf is the only word I can think of that can be used as both "play golf" and "golfing." Does that even make sense? I don't know, I just know "golfing" hurts my ears. Anyway, I will never say golfing and I will still correct my children when they ask me "if I am going golfing." I will forever answer them with, "No, I am going to play golf." Then again I wear a white belt A LOT so maybe my personal choices aren't what they should be... 😜

The reason being they are doing it wrong! If the Seahawks were PLAYING football and the Mariners were PLAYING baseball they would win more!

and bowling. 😝 I realize there are some activities where it's used as a verb, but golfing sounds very, very wrong to me. It's even been changed to a verb in the dictionary... stupid Webster!!!

Can "golf" be used as a verb (i.e. "I'm golfing right now!")? NO!! It actually drives me crazy when people use golf as a verb. It sounds ridiculous. You play golf just like you play tennis, play pickleball, play baseball, play football, etc, etc. It's even more ridiculous sounding when people say, "I golfed my ball." If you make a 2 on a par five, is it an "albatross" or a "double eagle"? It's both to me, although I say double eagle. Is a sandy pit area a "bunker" or a "sand trap"? It's a bunker. When I teach junior lessons in the summers we actually correct the kids if they say sand trap. "Tied," "All Square," or "Halved"? I like "all square" when referring to the match, and we use that term in our group when we play. I like "tied" when talking about a single hole. "Alternate Shot" or "Foursomes", and "Better Ball" vs. "Fourball"? I use "alternate shot" and "best ball", although foursomes and fourball sound classier. "British Open" or "The Open"? The British Open, I don't care if its been around the longest, we have an Open and its a pretty big deal as well. "Hole Location" or "Pin Location" or "Pin Placement"?. I use "hole location" when I am playing. I use "pin placement" when I am setting the pins for a competition.

I am a golf fanatic, but my family and wife are important to me as well. Because of this I do play golf a lot, but it's ALL I do. I hang out with my family, and I play golf. I don't go to the pub with the boys, I don't go to the gym, I have no other interests. For example, I am still working so I play golf every Sunday. I play early in the morning and I am normally home before noon. Saturdays I practice and I am normally home by 10:00am. If there is a holiday and I don't have to work, I normally play...but I try to be home before noon. I work in education, so I have summers off. In the summer I play or practice 6-7 days a week. Again, I am home before noon almost all of the time. I also go on a couple golf trips a year, they are boys only, but I also go on several family vacations or camping trips as well. As far as playing golf with my wife, I could never do it, it would be a horrible idea. I am a lifelong athlete, and I am very competitive and pretty serious. My wife is neither. I never play "just for the fun of it". I am either practicing or playing to shoot the lowest score I can. She would never understand that mindset. Marriage has to have some compromise, but at the same time you should want to make time for your significant others. Otherwise, why would you want to have a significant other?

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Golf is all I really like to do. I used to hunt, and I enjoyed it, but all my hunting buddies either moved or died. Played senior league baseball for a while, but I kept skipping games to play golf. 😝 I got into a little trouble with that, I have a tendency to over indulge. It's best for everyone if I steer clear of the 19th hole. 😉

Quitting golf!? Surely you jest. I certainly don't see that ever happening to me. I get depressed when I have to take a week off. Perhaps I am a golf fanatic, but I can't imagine my life without golf. Heck I took my clubs and played golf twice on my Honeymoon...without my wife! Reasons why I play and would never want to quit: All my friends I met at the golf course As a lifelong athlete, I like the competition I am good at it Exercise- I walk every round It's a lifetime activity. There are several guys in their 90's that play regularly at my course. It's my job. I have worked at a golf course for 20 years as a second job. When I retire from my main job here in a few years, the golf course will be my main job. It's my only hobby. In order to play as often as I do, it's all I do. I don't play fantasy football, I don't go to the pub with the boys, I don't even hunt anymore. I work, play golf, and have family time.

FINALLY made birdie on my nemesis hole #2. I went back and checked my stats, I had birdied every other hole on the course at least 3 times before I finally got my first one there. I always joke that I have to birdie # 1 so I can be even after # 2. It just doesn't fit my eye, there is OB down the entire left side and trees and water down the right. The fairway is sloped so any drive that doesn't land right in the middle will often run into the rough. When I finally birdied it I cut a nice 9 iron around a big pine tree to about a foot. Stupid thing almost went in on the fly. Bot anyway I am finally done with the challenge, took me forever because of # 2 but I did it.

Man there are so many good courses out there. Being able to walk it would be very important to me as is being in a climate where I can play year round. Of all the courses I have played I guess I would choose Pinehurst no 2. Very walkable, good climate, very fun, fair golf course. I was thinking the same thing. I have a lot family in Michigan and there are some fantastic golf courses there, but sitting on my ass 6 months a year watching the weather suck is a no go for me.

Put all your change in your left pocket, tie your left shoe in a double knot, turn your hat around, and stick a tee behind your left ear. That guy posted that 13 years ago so... He's probably moved on to seltzers by now, just sayin'.

All I will say about this is I have brought my daughters along and my friends have done the same. It can be a good way to introduce kids to the game and to teach them about etiquette and rules. Mind you we have control over our children and make sure they behave. And we have several people who play golf on a regular basis with their dogs. It's never been an issue. I actually take my german shepherd to the course with me every time I work.

Shot 70 (-2) yesterday. Hit the tee ball extremely well. Hit my wedges like absolute GARBAGE!!! Missed 4 greens from inside 100 yards. I got real steep for some reason, need to get to the range and hit some balls. The armlock putter is really getting comfortable and I putted very well. I was 17 for 17 from inside 12 feet which is exactly why I went to armlock. Also had no 3 putts. Strokes Gained- 5.25 strokes vs 0 HDC

We had to put a local rule banning music on the rules sheets when I was still running tournaments. Personally, I just ask them to turn it down, but some people hate it. I don't really understand why people feel the need to blare music while playing golf, but I also don't understand drinking a 12 pack while playing either.

Dude...six-somes...really!? Thats just crazy anyone would even try that. Maybe my course has more tattle tales, but if a 5-some tries to tee off at 10:50 (we allow them after 11) people lose their minds and we get 20 phone calls in the shop.