wedgewizard

Actually it is a bit different. A lot of civilians look upon cops as protectors and the ones to call when you're in danger. But soldiers don't look at MP's that way at all, and neither do civilians. Again, I'm not trying to bash your choice, but life is better when you have a job that others respect. And life is better when others like you for what you do. For example... Everybody likes a firefighter or a paramedic, just like everybody likes an infantryman, or an artilleryman, or an engineer, or a combat medic. But nobody likes a tax-collector or a repo-man or a telemarketer, just like nobody likes the military police.

I'm not trying to bash your choice or your hopes, but just so you know and are going in to this with your eyes open, the Military Police are despised by about everyone in and out of the military. Nobody likes them much except other MP's. It's just the nature of things.

My advice (I'm just an old soldier and Gulf War vet).... 1) Don't choose a job that you can do outside the military . Yeah, I know that this sounds backwards from the advice you usually hear, but allow me to explain.... You're only young once, and since you're young, you probably don't have enough life experience to really know what you want to do for the rest of your life. I sure as heck didn't when I was a teenager. So this is your chance to really have fun and really embrace doing some wild and crazy stuff. And the military offers you the chance to do things that no civilian is ever going to do. Why drive a truck when you can drive a tank? Why be a cook when you can blow things to kingdom come? And no offense meant, but why be a cop when you can be an infantryman or artillery gunner or a tanker or a combat engineer? Think about it, you can always get out and use the GI Bill money to go back to school and learn a civilian trade. But there are jobs in the military that just don't exist in the civilian world. Nobody looks back upon their time in the military and remembers the boring jobs, like filling out reports, performing maintenance, etc.... Good luck and my God watch over you.

Yet in your earlier post you said this... Clearly you hit in to them hoping that they would notice. Which means that you didn't do it by accident. There's just no excuse for doing something like that.

Nope, I'm neither. I've been happily married for nearly 18 years and I'm certainly no fool. Surely your wife is intelligent enough to understand that it's not disrespectful or an insult to use the equipment that works best for you. If she can't understand that then she must be very young and naive.

Perhaps, with just a few minutes of daylight remaining, you should have just called it a day and packed it up. I don't think that you had any right to hit in to the guys ahead of you just because you wanted to get one more hole in before dark. That was dangerous and totally uncalled for. What if you had hit one them and actually killed them? How could you justify that, to yourself, or to their families?

There has been a huge drive to speed up the play of golf over the years. This is purely greed driven by the course owners to get more and more folks on the course. I've seen tee times just three minutes apart all day long....on a public course! Once upon a time golf was a leisure sport where men could get out and enjoy a game and the company of some friends. Today it's becoming just another money making rat race. If you only have three hours to play, then you just don't have enough free time to play 18 holes.

I don't mind kids on the course IF the kids are old enough to walk the course carrying their own bags.

Good point. If I were on the tee box of #x, and you were on the tee box of #y, I would probably go ahead and tee off. How could I know that the course designer was an idiot?

No, that IS golf....for a woman. Who are you to judge? If you wanted to play through then you should have asked before you made your drive. Hitting in to a group 20 yards back is dangerous and rude. The real problem with golf is not slow players, it's impatient players.

For crying out loud! Be a man and don't worry about what your wife thinks!

Tee off today at 940AM ....after a frost delay ok....no big deal 45 minutes This just sounds like whining to me. If you go to a course and only have a few hours to play in your busy day, then you really don't have time to play golf.

My thoughts on dress and attire.... Making certain clothing mandatory, or banning certain clothing, is just elitist and narrow-minded. I have noticed that the only ones who give a crap about dress codes are small-minded little dictators, whom nobody likes, and their boot licking lackeys. If you're there to play, then play....don't be the self appointed dress-code nazi. Concentrate on your golf, not on whether the guy in front of you has a collared shirt or not. Slow play.... Yes, it does make for a long day. But if you don't have at least six hours to play, on a weekend, on a popular course, then you simply don't have time to play golf at that location on that day. Besides, while it is certainly possible for one to play 18 holes in three hours, I don't think anyone really ENJOYS playing 18 holes in three hours. Golf is supposed to be fun and a leisure sport....it's supposed to give one a break from the rat race, not become just another one. Snobs.... These idiots make the game worse for everyone, including themselves (only they are too stupid to realize it). Making ugly and snide remarks and being an A-hole snob does not make the game more fun for the victim of the remarks, nor for the idiot making the remarks. And it does not increase speed of play....in fact, it actually slows down play even more.

Swing "A" is the one I prefer. It looks like it takes less effort (more natural), and also seems to be a much more efficient swing.