I love golf but here in LA, it’s just too crowded. Its just got worse and courses just get greedier and try to cram even more people in a shorter period. The more people complain and give the courses terrible yelp reviews, the more they try to hurry everyone which since they send one group after another it does no good. Why hurry if you just after to wait 20 minutes to tee off on the next hole?
Also in the golf courses have one person doing 2 jobs and you wait in line 10 minutes to by a 3$ bottle of water or to check in. Forget about getting a beer at the bar, the bartender is busy cooking or something.
There is usually 2 or 3 of us playing and we always get paired up with an another to make it 4 and usually they are weird or terrible. Every round is 5 to 6.5 hours. Years ago, we played some of these courses in less than 3 hours. It doesn’t matter where we go, it’s the same shit. The marshall making sure everyone is in the next group's heels even though it does matter as you wait and wait anyway. Today my son and I went out and by the 2nd hole, there were 2 groups in front of us waiting to tee off. It was 30 minutes from finishing hole one to teeing off on hole 2. It took an hour and a half to play 2 holes and we just quit. Since the courses are packed, you would think they would just double the rates and fewer people would play and at least it would be fun again. Everyone is miserable and complains about how long it takes to play. Golf is getting as bad a the freeways. It seems there are 2 choices, bring a novel to read on the course and read it between shots and deal with horrible golf and never have a good game or just give up and do something else. We use to play 40 times per year and lately, we just don’t want to deal with the crowds. Should I just give and quit the game?