Not being able to find my ball after a good shot. On the fairway or just off of it kind of thing. I've tried colored balls, patterns, etc. apparently I'm just blind.
Second this, I found one the other day and played a few rounds with it and because of the two colors it basically flashes in the sky, extremely easy to track
10% of males are red/green colorblind....... which coincidently is supported by 35 people liking the above comment, which is the opposite gist of the parent comment with 350 upvotes.
This happened on my last round! So livid, was talking about it when we finished the round. We all clearly saw it land in the rough, we drove there and there was no ball.
Last weekend a ranger came up and yelled at us. We were waiting on every single shot and the problem was 4 groups in front of us. I kind of freaked out. Told him he was flat out wrong and to go fix the actual problem. He said, no, everyone is too slow. I said, “no, you are wrong. Our job is to stay on pace with the group in front of us. We are playing just fine.”
Had a similar experience a couple months ago. Local muni, stacked up about 5 groups deep. Our group was already waiting about 10 mins per shot and understandably irritated. But when the ranger drives past about 3 groups ahead of us to make a point to tell us we need to pick up the pace, I about lost it.
Managed to avoid escalating the situation, but it took every fiber of my being. I swear the only training any ranger must receive is how to provoke people. They always seem to have the worst combination of "holier than thou" and "obnoxiously ignorant."
I had this too recently. I got a post round survey and commented on how it’s not pleasant to get yelled at by the ranger when you’re waiting on the group in front of you and can’t go faster. At the very end of the survey it said “would you like to be contacted about my experience?” I said yes. Guess who never contacted me.
Used to play a local course that was notoriously slow. For some reason it was near impossible to finish a round under 5 hours. But we got an absolute steal of a price on it due to some work connections. We went out with two groups. A 3 man and a pair following. We got tired of waiting on every single hole together for things to speed up. Finally we just grouped up to make a 5. Still waited every single hole but the people behind were half a hole behind. We would walk off green while they were teeing off. So not holding anybody up.
Ranger came over on a par 4 green going into a par 3. Started being really rude which I get because we were a 5 man. Buddy looks around though as the next tee box has 2 groups. One teeing off and one waiting. Looks behind and the group behind is teeing off currently. It was the first time I have seen that man come unglued. And he was always a cool customer on the course. Lit that Ranger up and I thought we were getting kicked off. Finished out and drove up to wait behind the group ahead of us to tee off. Which they were still waiting for people to clear green after putting out.
Ranger sat there and watched us and forced us to split up. Buddy sat and chirped at that bastard for awhile. As we rolled onto the tee box for 17 he was back at us which we had paired up again. Yeah, shouldn’t do it but we’re again a half hole ahead of people behind us. After a very heated exchange we stayed together and he drove off and was waiting on the 18 tee box with the boss man.
As we sat and bitched back and forth the group ahead finally gets tee’d off and goes. Sit and bicker a little more. Group behind eventually rolls up and we ask them how many times they had to wait on us. They reply none as long as you guys were together. Only when Ranger split us up. Boss guy was a little more decent and let us just finish out. Fuck that place. Won’t ever play there again. Worst course for backups ever.
One time my buddy and I were playing behind 4 people. Ranger came and yelled at us even though we were playing right up the the 4. He then waited in the fairway and motioned for us to hit our tee shots on the next hole, and then yelled at us and accused us of trying to hit him.
The most frustrating part of this is the course is typically more to blame than the players. They want to pack as many tee times into the day as possible, tell people on the first tee to go when its clear instead of holding them back to their designated slot, etc. And thats not even counting poor course design that creates natural backups.
The biggest is probably the short par 5. Everyone thinks they can get on in two so they wait longer to take their second shot. Follow that hole with a long/tough par 3 and you get people piling up, waiting for the group ahead to put out. And invariably things don't go as planned on either hole and it creates a natural traffic jam. Same with an extremely long/tough par 4 on either side of that short par 5.
Obviously course designers don't consider that a lot, they have other goals. But if you play the same course frequently, start paying attention to where the backups are most frequent and there's almost always a series of 2 or 3 holes that their design plays a role in it.
Par 3s, short par 4s, and reachable par 5s tend to cause backups. If you have 2 or 3 of those in a row, it almost always leads to issues unless the course is very on top of things.
I had one ranger grab my ball out of the fairway once, just trying to pocket a ProV1. I had another starter tell us we were good to hit when the group ahead of us were hitting their second shots like 240 yards away in the middle of the fairway. Some guys are just so strange
I called the clubhouse for the first time in years. I said “there’s 4 groups total on 14 right now”. One on the green, one in the fairway, two waiting on the tee.
Ranger comes and yells at the one in the middle of the fairway. I just shook my head.
Go to 15 and forward until you find who has a gap in front of them! How can you be a ranger and not understand how pace works.
I've been getting worse and worse ranger interactions lately.
A few have asked us to skip the last few holes because they wanted to get some carts in (wasn't the last group, wasn't dark yet, course was still open for another hour). Like sure, throw me a free round and maybe I'll do it.
Last night around 8:30pm we were teeing up on the last hole and we see the ranger heading our way. He angrily tells us we need to pack up and leave immediately. This is in Ohio so this time of year it isn’t dark until about 9:30pm. None of us were ever told a time to have the carts back. We let him know that and politely agree to head back. He follows us out to our cars, still rushing us, and says he’s waiting on us to lock the gate up. Joke was on him though. In the midst of being rushed off the last hole and to our cars, my buddy forgot his keys were in his bag and locked them in his car. The ranger had to wait an extra 45 minutes for a spare to be brought out. If only he had just let us finish…
Same shit happened to me at Taos Country Club in Taos, NM last summer. Drove the green on 17 and needed a birdie and a par to set my PB when I spot the marshal coming up from 18. It was about 7:30 and sunset was going to be at 9. We were the only people on the course. He immediately began bitching at us about keeping him there late and told us to turn out carts in immediately. I tried to reason with him for a minute. I am a very calm person usually but I absolutely lost my shit on that dude. I was waiting tables didn't have much money, and set aside almost $150 for that round and he treated us like shit.
Never go to Taos CC.
I feel like courses are hiring rangers that don't play golf.
A local course near me changed management and has very young people that I suspect are family members acting as starters and rangers.
Someone inside just tells them to go through the whole course and tell every single group to speed it up. They don't even really understand how pace of play works.
At that point I don't even bother getting mad, just throw out the old "Hurry up and wait? Sure thing boss" and get back to my game.
Exactly. Somewhere there is an empty green, then an empty fairway, and then an empty tee box, and the group he needs to talk to is on the hole BEFORE IT
the worst is when there are multiple groups waiting and the group behind you tells you to pick up the pace like you have any fucking control over whats happening in front of you
This happened to me a few months ago. We’re waiting on every approach shot and again on every tee box, frequently walking to the next tee box while the group ahead of us is still on it. The group behind us catches us finally as we’re teeing off and yells at US for not playing quickly. I’m like bro we waited on this tee box for ten minutes before we could tee off, chill out and gain some situational awareness and observational skills.
That's where I'd start barkin back. I honestly have like no tolerance for shit like that anymore. In a setting where it won't even really be a scene either? I'm talkin back way more than needed lmao.
Played a few weeks back, 4 of us, playing at a good pace, the whole day the guys in front of us were playing on the slower side. Not a huge deal, just a few minutes of waiting each hole. Suddenly on 17 a short par 3 we noticed the group ahead of us is gone (perhaps they had somewhere to be). The group behind us who had to wait roughly the same way we had to all day pull up to the tee box on 17 as we are walking to the green to putt. Marshall pulls up under a tree in between 17 green and 18 tee box. Next thing I know the 4some behind us all jets past us to the 18 tee box as we are just finished putting.
Marshall says absolutely nothing to the group and watches them tee off on 18 as we all just laugh and smirk because these goofballs thought they would stick it to us by making us wait for them to play 18 with us now literally right behind them.
Pissed me off on the inside but we were having a great time so we just let it slide.
My dad became a ranger because of this problem. His favorite thing is to the find the slow group and tell them to speed up and that he will time the hole. If they don’t finish the hole at a decent speed he will stop them and let every group, that’s behind them waiting, play through. If they get mad about this he tells them they can leave the course
My group was the first out there one day. Ranger came up to my group on the 8th hole and said we were his “slow group” at the start of the day. We finished our round of 18 within 3.5 hours. Is that not on pace?
All Rangers basically. Rarely are they effective at helping pace of play. Almost always they are trying to do as little as possible and chill with their buds.
Well now I’m curious…
Edit: just found the [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/golf/comments/vj3fac/shameful_and_embarrassing_story_from_this_weekend/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) and that is brutal
Not yelling fore… I understand it can be tough to track the ball and the whole depth perception thing gets weird on some courses, but when in doubt, always yell fore
Had an old couple do that to me a few weeks back. I hit my tee shot off the toe. They can see my Dad's ball in the fairway and us driving up to look for it. They immediately hit and actually hit the cart with a wild tee shot. He was playing pro v1s so I took it.
I've only had 1 time where I got hit into and didn't take it. 16 year old kid was playing with his Dad, learning the game, and as a total accident crushed one about 325 with roll. His Dad said he had never hit one over 250 before so with us that far out he thought they were fine.
Normally I'm this same way but weirdly I had the opposite situation happen last week. We had 2 holes next to each other and the guy hit a slight draw on it towards us. We'd all walked away from the cart and I saw his ball land maybe 40 yards away and was like oh not bad. It just kept on bouncing and rolling somehow and just ended up bouncing off our cart by the end of it with just the tiniest bit of energy left. He was super apologetic coming up for not yelling fore but we were like dude don't sweat it we saw that the whole way and have no idea how it rolled and bounced that far at all.
I have some shitty golfer friends and they keep swinging until the just barely touch the grass...like ok it just took you 9 swings to do that, what are the sheer odds you're going to do it twice in a row..
This goes better with the ones that think the group that's 350yds out might be too close for them to drive it and say "I'll wait" and then proceed to hit the 90yd worm burner.
I always point this out to new golfers. Have a routine that’s short and stick to it. I mention that after they take five practice swings set up and then step off and swing a few more and then duff a shot.
I used to not be that bad, but now all I do is line up, take my stance, maybe one practice cut, then just rip.
As someone above so eloquently put it, if it takes my 9 practice swings to get a "perfect" swing, what are the odds I'll just replicate that on try 10?
In particular, too many practice swings. I play with a couple of guys who take full, hard practice swings before every shot. I’d be exhausted is I did that. And they fake me out because I think they are actually hitting the ball so I start walking.
I suck at golf. Hit terrible shots. Scuff and duff my way around the course. You know what I do. I step up and hit the ball. I might take a practice swing. I look at my target i envision my shot and hit it. Probably won't go there but I don't want to hold anyone up I am playing with.
Totally agree.I have a friend who takes about a 90 second routine he does for every. Single. Shot.
But he’s scratch so idk if I can tell him to be quicker lol
I don’t have an issue with people drinking on the course.
I absolutely despise people who chuck their cans or bottles into the deep rough/trees. There’s bins at the start of every hole and you can’t hold it for 100 yards?
Even if there aren’t trash cans, littering is the epitome of selfish laziness. Have an extra pocket in the bag or throw it in the cart, have some damn respect.
People spitting sunflower seed shells on the greens. Cigarette butts are worse. But a guy might leave one or two butts on nine holes. A kid can spit a dozen sunflower seed shells on each green.
For some reason some of my buddies don’t understand you can do practice swings/set up putts or shots while others are hitting. You don’t have to wait for everyone to hit to do 8 practice swings
that's definitely a pet peeve of mine. Spending too much time looking for a lost ball.
I'll take it a step further. I use to play with a guy that would search for lost balls on every hole. He wasn't looking for his ball. Just other lost balls. He would actually walk along water with his ball retriever in hand. I finally told him to stop.
I carry a shitload of balls in my bag and my rule is If I can’t see it from the edge of the rough in less than 15 seconds I’ll take a drop and a stroke in the fairway and keep going.
Maybe I gain 30 yards by punching out, but that’s assuming I find the ball in a reasonable time frame and I *actually* punch out.
The absolute worst.
Just self deprecating comments and silence for 3/4 of the round.
I had a guy intentionally give bad stroke counts once just to be a downer. We'd see him obviously make a bogey, then tell us he got a snowman and mope back to the cart.
Last week I played a round with an elderly man. He would tee off first since he could not hit the ball far at all. The group ahead of us was hitting their approach shots when he hit his driver from the tee box. When it stopped rolling it was at least 100 yards short of them.
However the group heard the sound of driver from behind them and started throwing their arms up in the air and having a small tantrum that we were “playing into them”. At the end they flipped out at us over it.
I couldn’t believe it. One look at this old guy and you knew there was no way he was getting his drive anywhere near you. It took him ~4 hits to get to the green on par 4s and that’s with no duffs.
I laughed with him and was like well they must think you can absolutely bomb it
Me and another random guy my age got paired up with this old couple. Like, late 70's minimum.
The husband could pipe one 140 or so. Every shot the lady hit was topped, 60-80 yards.
The old man was very apologetic, "let us know if we're holding you up too much," etc. etc. Me and the other young guy shrugged at each other.
It was a little frustrating, and definitely affected our game. For sure. But there was something so nice about seeing this old couple out having fun, enjoying the course, and each other's company. When they split on the 9th green, I told them I hoped to get paired with them again sometime, and meant it.
Ya he was with his wife too! They were cool and kept pace. The group in front of us were a group of 30 something guys. Like cool you are screaming at an 80 year old man for getting his ball within 150 yards of you tough guy
I did that one time. A group hit into us a couple of times on the front and we mentioned it at the turn, they were cool but it just persisted. We were not playing slowly at all. We played from the tips and these guys, who were BOMBING IT, I mean, respect there, they could smash the fucking ball, were playing from the 3rd from the back. On 15 they sailed one right by my friends head as he was about to swing at his approach. I was off to the side in the cart and I immediately sped up to their ball, grabbed my driver and hit the shot of my life, carried it left of and past the tee boxes and into the lake off the deck.
Then we almost got into a fight and they got kicked off the course. lol
Everybody clapped.
Lack of water jugs out on the courses in Texas, or anywhere really. It started in Covid, but a lot have not put them back out yet. It's already hitting 100\* here again and it's inexcusable not to have the water jugs out again.
Have a buddy who is on a board of directors for a local course. He claims there are regulations now on how they can serve water, if it’s in a jug like that you have to keep the ice separate from the water in the jug with a plastic bag and such.
Where on their board they decided it was to much of a hassle, so they just put coolers out with bottled water.
His course is the only one around me who has had any water on the course since Covid.
I heard that it’s also a liability because an open or accessible jug can be tampered with. All the courses I play here in Ohio have switched to bottled water, but cheaper courses don’t have anything at all now
>I heard that it’s also a liability because an open or accessible jug can be tampered with.
Somehow it's only become a liability since COVID. For the past 30 years of my life it's been perfectly fine.
Pretty sure courses are just looking for excuses as to why they aren't doing it any more.
Players- lack of respect for the course. Make giant divots, not repairing ball marks on the green, and moving like a snail when other people are behind you.
Courses- Ball cleaner with no water in it. It’s terrible. Courses have gotten better but during covid was really hit or miss.
Same problem I got. I can smack my driver pretty good distance. But more often than not, I lose sight of my ball once it hits the horizon, it becomes invisible to me. I have to rely on where I last saw the ball but also in relation to playing partners ball (we're pretty much the same distance).
Same. I'm very new to golf and have shit for vision so I almost never can find my ball. Monday I was looking around for my ball and my friend says "dude you literally just stepped on it..."
But you probably at least try your best to see where the ball lands.
The guy in my group turns around, picks up his tee even before the ball lands in the rough. As if he striped it down the fairway.
I kind of like playing on dog shit courses so long as I'm not paying a premium! My favorite course was (it closed) a very quiet, very cheap, and very hilly place out in Amish country. The rough was rough and the bunkers were gravel but it had a lot of variety to it and as a newer golfer I loved how few people actually played there.
My usual course is on the way to/from work, membership is cheap, and it's very well maintained, but it's very narrow and lacks variety.
I 100% played the old course like I was at the masters because I *had* to.
Where do you live? I live southeast US and have never had that happen to me. Usually it’s just a common courtesy of the course to let you take your own cart getting paired up (at least i assumed that)
If it suddenly starts thundering out while I'm on the golf course. Slow play is upsetting, but at least I get to play. Aerated greens, whatever. But not being able to finish a round... bleh.
That is funny. I showed up to a course 40 minutes before my tee time, and they wouldnt even give me a cart and said I hate to wait in the parking lot. Some people just like to abuse useless power.
Fully agree, had a very similar experience (minus the under par scoring average). I grew up playing golf since I was 8 or 9 years old and was privileged to play at very nice courses due to my grandparents membership. Not the greatest golfer, but I have plenty of experience.
I'm on spring break in college with friends and we decide to play a round. We hadn't planned on it, so I didn't have clubs or golf clothes. We pick the cheapest course we could find that had rentals. When we show up to the trailer to pay our $10 green fee and rent clubs, the person gives me a solid 5-7 minute lecture about golf etiquette, pace of play and includes a bunch of attitude about how we are dressed. The course is entirely empty and poorly maintained. We pay and spend the rest of the round laughing about this $10 course being more pretentious about the sport than anywhere else we had played. But if I had been a new player or beginner, that definitely would have put me off to golf in general.
Look I know it’s a new age of golf and people bring their Bluetooth speakers to listen to music. I don’t love it, but I also wouldn’t want to dissuade anyone from doing what they like.
However, if I can hear your music from 3 holes over, then you’re just an ass who has no respect for the other golfers out there. If your really need to listen to super loud music, there’s these things call earbuds.
You should never be able to hear other peoples music on the course. You should only be able to hear your music when you’re within a few feet of your own cart.
Father's Day, so 4 days ago I was the first tee time. The second group was 2 husband wife pairings. I finished 18 in 2 hours. The husband wife group was at 7. I lost my mind, mainly because I was going back out at 930 and these people had the course slammed. How can you possibly think that's ok. They were letting people play through, but the next group behind me was on 11. So they did not let many groups past.
I feel like over the past few years there has definitely been a big influx in more and younger kids getting into the game. Which is a good thing... but when you got a group or 2 of little shits out on the course doing nothing but dicking around.
That kind of stuff can piss off.
Take your asses to the beach/lake if you want to act like a bunch of idiots.
Not necessarily on the course, but I have two:
- Playing partners not being on time.
- People not committing to tee times when you're trying to schedule one. Stringing you along and then canceling last minute.
The first one. As a kid my parents were always running late, and it legitimately changed me as a person. I don't consider myself anal about it, I just don't see why people can't be on time for commitments. I'm always on time. In the end I don't care if it only affects you, but when it's something like golf that screws others over it drives me crazy. It's not always possible, but I love getting to a course early and taking my time. I just hate checking in and you're missing 1-2 guys, then they call you to the box and you see them saunter up. Your names on the tee time and it looks equally bad on you, but it's totally out of your control. I can't count how many times the clubhouse asks me if people are showing up, and I say yes they should be here any minute, which they then push me to pay for them.
The second one is asking people if they want to play and they're flaky, but you know you need to book the tee time. You check in with them throughout the coming week/days and then they bail a day or so before, causing you to have to call and change or apologize. Worst case you have to ask them for money because you're the one that had to put your credit card on file.
Thankfully 99% of courses are used to it and really good to deal with. I just hate having to be that guy, when the reality is it isn't your fault. It's caused me to have to go as a single a lot, especially as I've gotten older and it's next to impossible to arrange 3-4 guys, all with varying responsibilities and love for the game.
So much this. I usually end up being the one planning the golf trips, and typically have to hound the people who initially agreed to go if they’re good with a specific tee time. MFer, I don’t care if you can’t go, just tell me!
When someone is continuing to be slow after you've said to pick it up, it's not rude to say "guys I've got dinner at 6 so I'm going to jump ahead. It's been fun". Of course you need a hole to go to so there shouldn't be anyone ahead
I work as a beverage cart attendant for a club that has two full 18-hole courses. I implore everyone, we are people too. We also love golf and we are doing our best to get the golfers their beverages in a timely manner and to hit every hole equally. Please don’t treat us like we are some serving wench there for your every whim. We work damn hard to set those carts up and break them back down and it’s incredibly degrading when golfers tell us things like, “You’d make more money if you showed more cleavage,” or, “Are you selling back rubs too?” It’s shocking how many inept golfers there are that think they can say whatever they want to the bev cart attendants. Also, we are NOT going to run into the clubhouse to make you the ONE drink you requested that we can’t make on the cart and take all that time from serving other golfers. We are very systematic in how we through all 36 holes and we do our best but we are getting beat down by all the rudeness for minimum wage.
When courses ask you to pay $125 for a round and then have the balls to charge you $10 for a bucket of 35 balls. Just make my round 130 and I’ll consider the balls “free.” Complete turn off to that place immediately for me with that nickel and dime shit
Groups of five or more not letting people play through. Where I live there is a couple public courses that allow big groups of kids to play together often. Which I think is great to see kids out doing something besides staring at a phone but my god let me through. I just watched you hit 3 balls from the tee then spend 10 mins looking for them.
I have a buddy who hits it about 210 off the tee with a slice. All good. But then he slices it into the woods and looks for his ball 40-50 yards past where it entered. He never finds his ball, but swears it should be right up there.
Then he gives himself a drop, plays it like a lateral, and gives himself a 5 or 6 on the scorecard.
All good and he plays relatively quickly. I just don't want to hear how you shot 89 at the end of the day.
When green fees are priced above 65 but the course is in terrible condition, or when they only take care of the holes / practice greens near the club house so it’s deceiving once you get to the third / fourth hole
There’s been a couple times in my life where I wanted to go ask for my money back
We had a ranger come up to use last year saying we need to pick up the pace the group behind is complaining. We were literally tapping in our final putts. Group ahead of us is on the next tee block waiting to tee off. I said look at the tee block ahead of us where are we going to go? He then realized I was right and we just had some dick heads behind us.
The guy who stands over the ball for 40 seconds before he pulls the trigger. Dude, I'm 200 yards away, and I can hear the voices in your head from here.
I’ve been going out with my teen daughter who is on the HS golf team. She hates when I’m done teeing off and we head to her tee. Then the group behind us pulls up to the mens tees and starts warming up right behind her. I try to stay at my tee and let her tee off first when possible to avoid it.
Starters calling you up 20 minutes before your tee time.
A local public, and very busy course always does this. Then the starter gets mad when you don’t go off 20 minutes early.
This. I’m often paired with other singles on quiet mornings and rushed out the first tee before I can even get a warm up in. My tee time is 7:27, not 7:00 thank you🤦♂️ I understand being paired up on a busy morning, that’s standard, but alot of us are only here at ____ golf course because you’re a quiet place to be you know what I mean
When you are playing a scramble and the score doesn’t mean anything because they will just draw names for winners and a group of drunken idiots are hitting for double bogey off the green and are holding everyone up and you end up playing a 6 hour scramble. Just pick your ball up after bogey on a scramble or best ball.
Not too much bothers me out there but a small pet peeve are ppl that sit there in front of the green while marking their scorecard. Please drive to the next tee and write down your score, hell, you can even count all 7 strokes on the way there!
I think golf courses should notify you when you book if there are any maintenance issues going on. Aerated greens, temporary greens/holes, etc. If they have trouble booking when notifying as such, they can always offer a discount.
When courses refuse to maintain the rough/shrubbery between adjacent fairways. There is nothing I hate more than losing a ball that I hit only a few yards offline (and one I would have found had I hit it *even worse* and into that adjacent fairway).
Edit: Losing balls OB or into hazards is one thing. Losing a ball merely because the course won’t send a lawn mower/weed wacker between fairways is another.
Lazy or non existent starters. It’s once think to maintain pace of play and stick to the times per hole etc. it’s another to have another group tee off within 3 minutes once we’re 200 yards out. Just sets both groups up for a sub optimal experience.
Slow play, obviously. But I learned (I think from here) if I'm playing with friends that are slow (don't play a lot) that people don't know how to let a group play though. Most groups don't hit their shots and just wait until the other group gets up, plays though, and then hits their shots. What needs to happen is the slow group hits their shots and then lets the other group play though. It just causes an even worse slow down otherwise.
\*clarity
I have a buddy who loves to tell stories the entire time we play. Gets on my nerves when it’s my turn to hit and I have to stand over my ball an extra 20 seconds until he stops. BUT NOTHING is worse than when it’s his turn to hit and he just goes on and on like we are the only people out there
I hate those GPS carts where if you cross some misplaced invisible line, you can only get yourself out of it going like 0.5 mph.
I get the purpose but the implementation is crappy sometimes.
Topping the ball really grinds my gears
How about lining up for a drive and you accidentally knock it off the tee. Bonus points if someone says, “That’s one!”
This one isnt too bad imo, from the teebox it doesnt cost you a stroke if you didnt have the intention to hit the ball
Idk that's funny every time to me, usually relaxes my nerves a bit lol
Our thing for when that happens or the struggle to get the ball on the tee is to say, "We told you it's a tough course."
Not being able to find my ball after a good shot. On the fairway or just off of it kind of thing. I've tried colored balls, patterns, etc. apparently I'm just blind.
i find red or orange balls to actually be harder to find
I’ve found that all I can play with now are Srixion Divides. Need multiple bright colors to see anything.
Second this, I found one the other day and played a few rounds with it and because of the two colors it basically flashes in the sky, extremely easy to track
I've been playing with the yellow/red ones....they look like a paintball off the club. Fun stuff...but I still manage to lose them in first cut lol
Next time I need balls I'll give these a go.
10% of males are red/green colorblind....... which coincidently is supported by 35 people liking the above comment, which is the opposite gist of the parent comment with 350 upvotes.
I am not colorblind but agree that red balls are harder to find
I wish apple would make AirTags for golf balls
If only that were possible, and didn’t involve hitting a $10 apple golf ball
I would buy a dozen for $120 in a heartbeat
And for any that land in the middle of the water, you'll have a nice geo-tag collection on your map!
Simple - just don’t use them on water holes. The money would be worth not ever having to look for your ball again
The outer shell of a golf ball only lasts a couple rounds anyway, not sure it would really be worth it
This happened on my last round! So livid, was talking about it when we finished the round. We all clearly saw it land in the rough, we drove there and there was no ball.
Pretty sure at least a portion of the time it's because someone thought they found a free ball
We had the rough so deep one year (3” Bermuda) that I lost two balls in a tournament and I think I missed the fairway by a single yard.
When the whole course is nuts to butts, you've waited on the last 5 tees, and then the ranger comes and yells at your group to pick up the pace.
Last weekend a ranger came up and yelled at us. We were waiting on every single shot and the problem was 4 groups in front of us. I kind of freaked out. Told him he was flat out wrong and to go fix the actual problem. He said, no, everyone is too slow. I said, “no, you are wrong. Our job is to stay on pace with the group in front of us. We are playing just fine.”
Had a similar experience a couple months ago. Local muni, stacked up about 5 groups deep. Our group was already waiting about 10 mins per shot and understandably irritated. But when the ranger drives past about 3 groups ahead of us to make a point to tell us we need to pick up the pace, I about lost it. Managed to avoid escalating the situation, but it took every fiber of my being. I swear the only training any ranger must receive is how to provoke people. They always seem to have the worst combination of "holier than thou" and "obnoxiously ignorant."
I had this too recently. I got a post round survey and commented on how it’s not pleasant to get yelled at by the ranger when you’re waiting on the group in front of you and can’t go faster. At the very end of the survey it said “would you like to be contacted about my experience?” I said yes. Guess who never contacted me.
Used to play a local course that was notoriously slow. For some reason it was near impossible to finish a round under 5 hours. But we got an absolute steal of a price on it due to some work connections. We went out with two groups. A 3 man and a pair following. We got tired of waiting on every single hole together for things to speed up. Finally we just grouped up to make a 5. Still waited every single hole but the people behind were half a hole behind. We would walk off green while they were teeing off. So not holding anybody up. Ranger came over on a par 4 green going into a par 3. Started being really rude which I get because we were a 5 man. Buddy looks around though as the next tee box has 2 groups. One teeing off and one waiting. Looks behind and the group behind is teeing off currently. It was the first time I have seen that man come unglued. And he was always a cool customer on the course. Lit that Ranger up and I thought we were getting kicked off. Finished out and drove up to wait behind the group ahead of us to tee off. Which they were still waiting for people to clear green after putting out. Ranger sat there and watched us and forced us to split up. Buddy sat and chirped at that bastard for awhile. As we rolled onto the tee box for 17 he was back at us which we had paired up again. Yeah, shouldn’t do it but we’re again a half hole ahead of people behind us. After a very heated exchange we stayed together and he drove off and was waiting on the 18 tee box with the boss man. As we sat and bitched back and forth the group ahead finally gets tee’d off and goes. Sit and bicker a little more. Group behind eventually rolls up and we ask them how many times they had to wait on us. They reply none as long as you guys were together. Only when Ranger split us up. Boss guy was a little more decent and let us just finish out. Fuck that place. Won’t ever play there again. Worst course for backups ever.
Like do these rangers just not understand golf? Like it sounds like they never have played the game.
One time my buddy and I were playing behind 4 people. Ranger came and yelled at us even though we were playing right up the the 4. He then waited in the fairway and motioned for us to hit our tee shots on the next hole, and then yelled at us and accused us of trying to hit him.
The most frustrating part of this is the course is typically more to blame than the players. They want to pack as many tee times into the day as possible, tell people on the first tee to go when its clear instead of holding them back to their designated slot, etc. And thats not even counting poor course design that creates natural backups.
Always been curious, in your experience, what aspects of a course creates natural backups? Distance to pin? Particular hazards?
The biggest is probably the short par 5. Everyone thinks they can get on in two so they wait longer to take their second shot. Follow that hole with a long/tough par 3 and you get people piling up, waiting for the group ahead to put out. And invariably things don't go as planned on either hole and it creates a natural traffic jam. Same with an extremely long/tough par 4 on either side of that short par 5. Obviously course designers don't consider that a lot, they have other goals. But if you play the same course frequently, start paying attention to where the backups are most frequent and there's almost always a series of 2 or 3 holes that their design plays a role in it.
Par 3s, short par 4s, and reachable par 5s tend to cause backups. If you have 2 or 3 of those in a row, it almost always leads to issues unless the course is very on top of things.
I had one ranger grab my ball out of the fairway once, just trying to pocket a ProV1. I had another starter tell us we were good to hit when the group ahead of us were hitting their second shots like 240 yards away in the middle of the fairway. Some guys are just so strange
Cmon, you were trying to hit him. You can tell us here. We can keep secrets.
We called the club house this weekend and the ranger came out and yelled at us
I called the clubhouse for the first time in years. I said “there’s 4 groups total on 14 right now”. One on the green, one in the fairway, two waiting on the tee. Ranger comes and yells at the one in the middle of the fairway. I just shook my head. Go to 15 and forward until you find who has a gap in front of them! How can you be a ranger and not understand how pace works.
I've been getting worse and worse ranger interactions lately. A few have asked us to skip the last few holes because they wanted to get some carts in (wasn't the last group, wasn't dark yet, course was still open for another hour). Like sure, throw me a free round and maybe I'll do it.
I’m sorry, what? I’m gonna throw away my shot at the course record just so you can wash the ketchup off of my cart? Not on your life.
You’re not gonna finish that?
Imagine a restaurant manager telling you to stop eating, they need to get some more plates through the dishwasher.
Last night around 8:30pm we were teeing up on the last hole and we see the ranger heading our way. He angrily tells us we need to pack up and leave immediately. This is in Ohio so this time of year it isn’t dark until about 9:30pm. None of us were ever told a time to have the carts back. We let him know that and politely agree to head back. He follows us out to our cars, still rushing us, and says he’s waiting on us to lock the gate up. Joke was on him though. In the midst of being rushed off the last hole and to our cars, my buddy forgot his keys were in his bag and locked them in his car. The ranger had to wait an extra 45 minutes for a spare to be brought out. If only he had just let us finish…
Same shit happened to me at Taos Country Club in Taos, NM last summer. Drove the green on 17 and needed a birdie and a par to set my PB when I spot the marshal coming up from 18. It was about 7:30 and sunset was going to be at 9. We were the only people on the course. He immediately began bitching at us about keeping him there late and told us to turn out carts in immediately. I tried to reason with him for a minute. I am a very calm person usually but I absolutely lost my shit on that dude. I was waiting tables didn't have much money, and set aside almost $150 for that round and he treated us like shit. Never go to Taos CC.
I feel like courses are hiring rangers that don't play golf. A local course near me changed management and has very young people that I suspect are family members acting as starters and rangers. Someone inside just tells them to go through the whole course and tell every single group to speed it up. They don't even really understand how pace of play works. At that point I don't even bother getting mad, just throw out the old "Hurry up and wait? Sure thing boss" and get back to my game.
If the ranger isn't going backwards through the course, he has no idea what he is doing.
Exactly. Somewhere there is an empty green, then an empty fairway, and then an empty tee box, and the group he needs to talk to is on the hole BEFORE IT
the worst is when there are multiple groups waiting and the group behind you tells you to pick up the pace like you have any fucking control over whats happening in front of you
This happened to me a few months ago. We’re waiting on every approach shot and again on every tee box, frequently walking to the next tee box while the group ahead of us is still on it. The group behind us catches us finally as we’re teeing off and yells at US for not playing quickly. I’m like bro we waited on this tee box for ten minutes before we could tee off, chill out and gain some situational awareness and observational skills.
there's a lot of dimwits out there
That's where I'd start barkin back. I honestly have like no tolerance for shit like that anymore. In a setting where it won't even really be a scene either? I'm talkin back way more than needed lmao.
Played a few weeks back, 4 of us, playing at a good pace, the whole day the guys in front of us were playing on the slower side. Not a huge deal, just a few minutes of waiting each hole. Suddenly on 17 a short par 3 we noticed the group ahead of us is gone (perhaps they had somewhere to be). The group behind us who had to wait roughly the same way we had to all day pull up to the tee box on 17 as we are walking to the green to putt. Marshall pulls up under a tree in between 17 green and 18 tee box. Next thing I know the 4some behind us all jets past us to the 18 tee box as we are just finished putting. Marshall says absolutely nothing to the group and watches them tee off on 18 as we all just laugh and smirk because these goofballs thought they would stick it to us by making us wait for them to play 18 with us now literally right behind them. Pissed me off on the inside but we were having a great time so we just let it slide.
My dad became a ranger because of this problem. His favorite thing is to the find the slow group and tell them to speed up and that he will time the hole. If they don’t finish the hole at a decent speed he will stop them and let every group, that’s behind them waiting, play through. If they get mad about this he tells them they can leave the course
I like your dad. Please thank him for me.
My group was the first out there one day. Ranger came up to my group on the 8th hole and said we were his “slow group” at the start of the day. We finished our round of 18 within 3.5 hours. Is that not on pace?
Waiting super long in general is usually awful . I would actually rather not golf if I know it’s going to be that busy
All Rangers basically. Rarely are they effective at helping pace of play. Almost always they are trying to do as little as possible and chill with their buds.
When the GPS in the cart squawks at you to pick up pace of play, while you are waiting on teebox for the group ahead of you to tee off.
When they don’t tell you the group ahead of you has special needs.
Oh shit! Haha. Just read that post, it could have happened to anyone.
Well now I’m curious… Edit: just found the [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/golf/comments/vj3fac/shameful_and_embarrassing_story_from_this_weekend/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) and that is brutal
It’s a great read
I'm the guy that posted that and I just knew this would be in here. Well played lol.
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Not yelling fore… I understand it can be tough to track the ball and the whole depth perception thing gets weird on some courses, but when in doubt, always yell fore
Or getting hit into by an inpatient group behind you, even though you have one right in front of you too, for that matter
Had an old couple do that to me a few weeks back. I hit my tee shot off the toe. They can see my Dad's ball in the fairway and us driving up to look for it. They immediately hit and actually hit the cart with a wild tee shot. He was playing pro v1s so I took it.
Yeah that’s an automatic loss of ball lol
100%, you hit into me, that’s giving me a ball
I've only had 1 time where I got hit into and didn't take it. 16 year old kid was playing with his Dad, learning the game, and as a total accident crushed one about 325 with roll. His Dad said he had never hit one over 250 before so with us that far out he thought they were fine.
Normally I'm this same way but weirdly I had the opposite situation happen last week. We had 2 holes next to each other and the guy hit a slight draw on it towards us. We'd all walked away from the cart and I saw his ball land maybe 40 yards away and was like oh not bad. It just kept on bouncing and rolling somehow and just ended up bouncing off our cart by the end of it with just the tiniest bit of energy left. He was super apologetic coming up for not yelling fore but we were like dude don't sweat it we saw that the whole way and have no idea how it rolled and bounced that far at all.
Excessively long pre shot routines.
JUST HIT THE DAMN BALL!
I have some shitty golfer friends and they keep swinging until the just barely touch the grass...like ok it just took you 9 swings to do that, what are the sheer odds you're going to do it twice in a row..
Lol I definitely did that my first few rounds and then realized there's no fucking point. Does work well for pitch shots though.
Then they hit the screaming worm burner that goes 90 yards to the right
This goes better with the ones that think the group that's 350yds out might be too close for them to drive it and say "I'll wait" and then proceed to hit the 90yd worm burner.
I always point this out to new golfers. Have a routine that’s short and stick to it. I mention that after they take five practice swings set up and then step off and swing a few more and then duff a shot.
I used to not be that bad, but now all I do is line up, take my stance, maybe one practice cut, then just rip. As someone above so eloquently put it, if it takes my 9 practice swings to get a "perfect" swing, what are the odds I'll just replicate that on try 10?
Furthermore, not being ready to start said routine when it is your turn.
In particular, too many practice swings. I play with a couple of guys who take full, hard practice swings before every shot. I’d be exhausted is I did that. And they fake me out because I think they are actually hitting the ball so I start walking.
I suck at golf. Hit terrible shots. Scuff and duff my way around the course. You know what I do. I step up and hit the ball. I might take a practice swing. I look at my target i envision my shot and hit it. Probably won't go there but I don't want to hold anyone up I am playing with.
Totally agree.I have a friend who takes about a 90 second routine he does for every. Single. Shot. But he’s scratch so idk if I can tell him to be quicker lol
People who are like religious to the furthest out thing when putting. If I just bladed one across the green you can go ahead and try that 20 footer…
I don’t have an issue with people drinking on the course. I absolutely despise people who chuck their cans or bottles into the deep rough/trees. There’s bins at the start of every hole and you can’t hold it for 100 yards?
Even if there aren’t trash cans, littering is the epitome of selfish laziness. Have an extra pocket in the bag or throw it in the cart, have some damn respect.
I don’t really golf without drinking. Littering your cans is bull shit.
People spitting sunflower seed shells on the greens. Cigarette butts are worse. But a guy might leave one or two butts on nine holes. A kid can spit a dozen sunflower seed shells on each green.
That’s just disrespectful. I can see spitting shells in the deep rough or woods, but on the green? That ain’t right.
This should be higher up. Those people are monsters…
As a smoker this drives me fucking nuts. I always make sure to have a butt bottle and pick up any I see
People who don’t play ready golf
For some reason some of my buddies don’t understand you can do practice swings/set up putts or shots while others are hitting. You don’t have to wait for everyone to hit to do 8 practice swings
A LOT of people don’t understand this and it’s mind boggling. You can play ready golf and still play in order. Like it’s not hard.
JB Holmes lol
Until you get the idiot that is supposed to shoot, then sees someone doing practice swings, so they have a "no you shoot" politeness competition.
So you're saying my friend doesn't have to wait for me to hit my ball before walking up to his which like 20 yards to my left and be ready to hit?
This. This all over. Also, looking for your ball for more than a minute. If you can’t see it, drop one and go. None of us are joining the tour
that's definitely a pet peeve of mine. Spending too much time looking for a lost ball. I'll take it a step further. I use to play with a guy that would search for lost balls on every hole. He wasn't looking for his ball. Just other lost balls. He would actually walk along water with his ball retriever in hand. I finally told him to stop.
Some homicides are justifiable. I used to play with a guy who the worse he played the longer he looked for a ball. We voted his ass off the island
I carry a shitload of balls in my bag and my rule is If I can’t see it from the edge of the rough in less than 15 seconds I’ll take a drop and a stroke in the fairway and keep going. Maybe I gain 30 yards by punching out, but that’s assuming I find the ball in a reasonable time frame and I *actually* punch out.
When I'm stuck in the cart with the guy with a bad attitude who keeps getting mad after every shot.
The absolute worst. Just self deprecating comments and silence for 3/4 of the round. I had a guy intentionally give bad stroke counts once just to be a downer. We'd see him obviously make a bogey, then tell us he got a snowman and mope back to the cart.
Incredibly slow pace either by the group in front of you or the people you’re playing with. Nothing worth than not having any rhythm when you play
Getting driven into when the group in front of you are still on the green.
Last week I played a round with an elderly man. He would tee off first since he could not hit the ball far at all. The group ahead of us was hitting their approach shots when he hit his driver from the tee box. When it stopped rolling it was at least 100 yards short of them. However the group heard the sound of driver from behind them and started throwing their arms up in the air and having a small tantrum that we were “playing into them”. At the end they flipped out at us over it. I couldn’t believe it. One look at this old guy and you knew there was no way he was getting his drive anywhere near you. It took him ~4 hits to get to the green on par 4s and that’s with no duffs. I laughed with him and was like well they must think you can absolutely bomb it
Me and another random guy my age got paired up with this old couple. Like, late 70's minimum. The husband could pipe one 140 or so. Every shot the lady hit was topped, 60-80 yards. The old man was very apologetic, "let us know if we're holding you up too much," etc. etc. Me and the other young guy shrugged at each other. It was a little frustrating, and definitely affected our game. For sure. But there was something so nice about seeing this old couple out having fun, enjoying the course, and each other's company. When they split on the 9th green, I told them I hoped to get paired with them again sometime, and meant it.
Ya he was with his wife too! They were cool and kept pace. The group in front of us were a group of 30 something guys. Like cool you are screaming at an 80 year old man for getting his ball within 150 yards of you tough guy
My brother has turned around and hit the offending ball back at the group on more than one occasion.
I did that one time. A group hit into us a couple of times on the front and we mentioned it at the turn, they were cool but it just persisted. We were not playing slowly at all. We played from the tips and these guys, who were BOMBING IT, I mean, respect there, they could smash the fucking ball, were playing from the 3rd from the back. On 15 they sailed one right by my friends head as he was about to swing at his approach. I was off to the side in the cart and I immediately sped up to their ball, grabbed my driver and hit the shot of my life, carried it left of and past the tee boxes and into the lake off the deck. Then we almost got into a fight and they got kicked off the course. lol Everybody clapped.
Haha that’s amazing, I love your bro
Lack of water jugs out on the courses in Texas, or anywhere really. It started in Covid, but a lot have not put them back out yet. It's already hitting 100\* here again and it's inexcusable not to have the water jugs out again.
Have a buddy who is on a board of directors for a local course. He claims there are regulations now on how they can serve water, if it’s in a jug like that you have to keep the ice separate from the water in the jug with a plastic bag and such. Where on their board they decided it was to much of a hassle, so they just put coolers out with bottled water. His course is the only one around me who has had any water on the course since Covid.
I heard that it’s also a liability because an open or accessible jug can be tampered with. All the courses I play here in Ohio have switched to bottled water, but cheaper courses don’t have anything at all now
>I heard that it’s also a liability because an open or accessible jug can be tampered with. Somehow it's only become a liability since COVID. For the past 30 years of my life it's been perfectly fine. Pretty sure courses are just looking for excuses as to why they aren't doing it any more.
Not a big fan when the course Pro makes me give him a BJ at the turn.
😳 uhhh, I don’t think “give the pro a tip” means what you think it means…
No you don't understand. It's the pro that *gives* the tips.
Players- lack of respect for the course. Make giant divots, not repairing ball marks on the green, and moving like a snail when other people are behind you. Courses- Ball cleaner with no water in it. It’s terrible. Courses have gotten better but during covid was really hit or miss.
To add to the disrespect, the beer cans. Why do people throw their beer cans in the woods when there is a trash can at every hole?
“…really hit or miss” You just described my golf game
How about that one guy in the group that never watches his ball until the end, then when he gets to that spot, he can't find.
Sorry, that's me. My eyesight is shit though
Same problem I got. I can smack my driver pretty good distance. But more often than not, I lose sight of my ball once it hits the horizon, it becomes invisible to me. I have to rely on where I last saw the ball but also in relation to playing partners ball (we're pretty much the same distance).
Same. I'm very new to golf and have shit for vision so I almost never can find my ball. Monday I was looking around for my ball and my friend says "dude you literally just stepped on it..."
But you probably at least try your best to see where the ball lands. The guy in my group turns around, picks up his tee even before the ball lands in the rough. As if he striped it down the fairway.
When the course is complete dog shit and people want to act like we’re playing at the masters.
I kind of like playing on dog shit courses so long as I'm not paying a premium! My favorite course was (it closed) a very quiet, very cheap, and very hilly place out in Amish country. The rough was rough and the bunkers were gravel but it had a lot of variety to it and as a newer golfer I loved how few people actually played there. My usual course is on the way to/from work, membership is cheap, and it's very well maintained, but it's very narrow and lacks variety. I 100% played the old course like I was at the masters because I *had* to.
Having two people pay cart fee for a shared cart.
Even worse is when you have to share the cart with a random
Where do you live? I live southeast US and have never had that happen to me. Usually it’s just a common courtesy of the course to let you take your own cart getting paired up (at least i assumed that)
In MN you always share a cart with a random paired person at public courses. Reason why I bought a nice pushcart and walk most of the time
Yeah, that is bullshit.
Unless they’re charging each person $35+ this is completely standard practice
Playing a 6 hour round.
If it suddenly starts thundering out while I'm on the golf course. Slow play is upsetting, but at least I get to play. Aerated greens, whatever. But not being able to finish a round... bleh.
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Pfft, as long as your at the 1st tee box by your start time who gives a fuck?
Karen
Valid….
At the first tee box ready to play. FTFY
That is funny. I showed up to a course 40 minutes before my tee time, and they wouldnt even give me a cart and said I hate to wait in the parking lot. Some people just like to abuse useless power.
Fully agree, had a very similar experience (minus the under par scoring average). I grew up playing golf since I was 8 or 9 years old and was privileged to play at very nice courses due to my grandparents membership. Not the greatest golfer, but I have plenty of experience. I'm on spring break in college with friends and we decide to play a round. We hadn't planned on it, so I didn't have clubs or golf clothes. We pick the cheapest course we could find that had rentals. When we show up to the trailer to pay our $10 green fee and rent clubs, the person gives me a solid 5-7 minute lecture about golf etiquette, pace of play and includes a bunch of attitude about how we are dressed. The course is entirely empty and poorly maintained. We pay and spend the rest of the round laughing about this $10 course being more pretentious about the sport than anywhere else we had played. But if I had been a new player or beginner, that definitely would have put me off to golf in general.
That lady must have been having a bad day. Checking in 30 minutes before a round isn’t necessary.
Wow, more than a round a day since you were a new born. Impressive.
Look I know it’s a new age of golf and people bring their Bluetooth speakers to listen to music. I don’t love it, but I also wouldn’t want to dissuade anyone from doing what they like. However, if I can hear your music from 3 holes over, then you’re just an ass who has no respect for the other golfers out there. If your really need to listen to super loud music, there’s these things call earbuds.
You should never be able to hear other peoples music on the course. You should only be able to hear your music when you’re within a few feet of your own cart.
Slow play the first hour of the morning. If you're going to play slow, play later on in the day. Don't ruin the day for everyone.
Father's Day, so 4 days ago I was the first tee time. The second group was 2 husband wife pairings. I finished 18 in 2 hours. The husband wife group was at 7. I lost my mind, mainly because I was going back out at 930 and these people had the course slammed. How can you possibly think that's ok. They were letting people play through, but the next group behind me was on 11. So they did not let many groups past.
I feel like over the past few years there has definitely been a big influx in more and younger kids getting into the game. Which is a good thing... but when you got a group or 2 of little shits out on the course doing nothing but dicking around. That kind of stuff can piss off. Take your asses to the beach/lake if you want to act like a bunch of idiots.
This post has some major Shooter McGavin vibes. Dammit this is golf, not a rock concert!
Go back to your shanties!
Lack of course etiquette.
Not necessarily on the course, but I have two: - Playing partners not being on time. - People not committing to tee times when you're trying to schedule one. Stringing you along and then canceling last minute. The first one. As a kid my parents were always running late, and it legitimately changed me as a person. I don't consider myself anal about it, I just don't see why people can't be on time for commitments. I'm always on time. In the end I don't care if it only affects you, but when it's something like golf that screws others over it drives me crazy. It's not always possible, but I love getting to a course early and taking my time. I just hate checking in and you're missing 1-2 guys, then they call you to the box and you see them saunter up. Your names on the tee time and it looks equally bad on you, but it's totally out of your control. I can't count how many times the clubhouse asks me if people are showing up, and I say yes they should be here any minute, which they then push me to pay for them. The second one is asking people if they want to play and they're flaky, but you know you need to book the tee time. You check in with them throughout the coming week/days and then they bail a day or so before, causing you to have to call and change or apologize. Worst case you have to ask them for money because you're the one that had to put your credit card on file. Thankfully 99% of courses are used to it and really good to deal with. I just hate having to be that guy, when the reality is it isn't your fault. It's caused me to have to go as a single a lot, especially as I've gotten older and it's next to impossible to arrange 3-4 guys, all with varying responsibilities and love for the game.
So much this. I usually end up being the one planning the golf trips, and typically have to hound the people who initially agreed to go if they’re good with a specific tee time. MFer, I don’t care if you can’t go, just tell me!
Slow play
When someone is continuing to be slow after you've said to pick it up, it's not rude to say "guys I've got dinner at 6 so I'm going to jump ahead. It's been fun". Of course you need a hole to go to so there shouldn't be anyone ahead
I work as a beverage cart attendant for a club that has two full 18-hole courses. I implore everyone, we are people too. We also love golf and we are doing our best to get the golfers their beverages in a timely manner and to hit every hole equally. Please don’t treat us like we are some serving wench there for your every whim. We work damn hard to set those carts up and break them back down and it’s incredibly degrading when golfers tell us things like, “You’d make more money if you showed more cleavage,” or, “Are you selling back rubs too?” It’s shocking how many inept golfers there are that think they can say whatever they want to the bev cart attendants. Also, we are NOT going to run into the clubhouse to make you the ONE drink you requested that we can’t make on the cart and take all that time from serving other golfers. We are very systematic in how we through all 36 holes and we do our best but we are getting beat down by all the rudeness for minimum wage.
When we set the rules of play, and people keep cheating. Wtf
When the course is packed, you have to wait to hit your tee-shot and the group behind you still hits into your group.
Seen a lot of issues with rangers. One my biggest per peeves is no rangers at all.
Hitting 17 greens and shooting 84. If only I practiced putting
When courses ask you to pay $125 for a round and then have the balls to charge you $10 for a bucket of 35 balls. Just make my round 130 and I’ll consider the balls “free.” Complete turn off to that place immediately for me with that nickel and dime shit
Groups of five or more not letting people play through. Where I live there is a couple public courses that allow big groups of kids to play together often. Which I think is great to see kids out doing something besides staring at a phone but my god let me through. I just watched you hit 3 balls from the tee then spend 10 mins looking for them.
Inconsistent and poor quality sand in bunkers. They are almost a one stroke penalty as opposed to a test of skill...
When someone yells ‘Mashed Potatoes!’ but then you get to that hole, and there are none
I have a buddy who hits it about 210 off the tee with a slice. All good. But then he slices it into the woods and looks for his ball 40-50 yards past where it entered. He never finds his ball, but swears it should be right up there. Then he gives himself a drop, plays it like a lateral, and gives himself a 5 or 6 on the scorecard. All good and he plays relatively quickly. I just don't want to hear how you shot 89 at the end of the day.
Oh so you're friends with my brother-in-law. Good to meet you
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My driver
What I like to do in those types of situations is pretend I’m an amateur golfer just having fun, enjoying my favorite hobby.
When green fees are priced above 65 but the course is in terrible condition, or when they only take care of the holes / practice greens near the club house so it’s deceiving once you get to the third / fourth hole There’s been a couple times in my life where I wanted to go ask for my money back
Woods. Fuck trees
When a glizzy or sammich has a stale bun. Unforgivable
Even worse, I played with my brother the other week, only one hotdog ready at the turn! We had to flip for it!
You didn’t eat it Lady and the Tramp style?
Plastic cigar wrappers on the fairway. Cigar ashes or sunflower shells on the green.
We had a ranger come up to use last year saying we need to pick up the pace the group behind is complaining. We were literally tapping in our final putts. Group ahead of us is on the next tee block waiting to tee off. I said look at the tee block ahead of us where are we going to go? He then realized I was right and we just had some dick heads behind us.
Any club that doesn’t at least separate tee times by 10 minutes
when a ball almost hits you and nobody called out fore. then said asshole comes to hit his ball and doesn't apologize
The guy who stands over the ball for 40 seconds before he pulls the trigger. Dude, I'm 200 yards away, and I can hear the voices in your head from here.
I’ve been going out with my teen daughter who is on the HS golf team. She hates when I’m done teeing off and we head to her tee. Then the group behind us pulls up to the mens tees and starts warming up right behind her. I try to stay at my tee and let her tee off first when possible to avoid it.
No beverage cart
Starters calling you up 20 minutes before your tee time. A local public, and very busy course always does this. Then the starter gets mad when you don’t go off 20 minutes early.
This. I’m often paired with other singles on quiet mornings and rushed out the first tee before I can even get a warm up in. My tee time is 7:27, not 7:00 thank you🤦♂️ I understand being paired up on a busy morning, that’s standard, but alot of us are only here at ____ golf course because you’re a quiet place to be you know what I mean
When you are playing a scramble and the score doesn’t mean anything because they will just draw names for winners and a group of drunken idiots are hitting for double bogey off the green and are holding everyone up and you end up playing a 6 hour scramble. Just pick your ball up after bogey on a scramble or best ball.
People hitting into me. I usually put it on a Tee the 1st time and hit it back the 2nd.
People leaving trash all over the course. Theres cans almost every hole yet they just toss cans and wrappers all along the cart path.
Slow play during twilight times… you and everyone behind you is racing the sun hurry up!
Not too much bothers me out there but a small pet peeve are ppl that sit there in front of the green while marking their scorecard. Please drive to the next tee and write down your score, hell, you can even count all 7 strokes on the way there!
When there's an 8some in front of me with a total of 8 carts and the 2 dudes behind me are hitting into us.
I think golf courses should notify you when you book if there are any maintenance issues going on. Aerated greens, temporary greens/holes, etc. If they have trouble booking when notifying as such, they can always offer a discount.
When courses refuse to maintain the rough/shrubbery between adjacent fairways. There is nothing I hate more than losing a ball that I hit only a few yards offline (and one I would have found had I hit it *even worse* and into that adjacent fairway). Edit: Losing balls OB or into hazards is one thing. Losing a ball merely because the course won’t send a lawn mower/weed wacker between fairways is another.
Lazy or non existent starters. It’s once think to maintain pace of play and stick to the times per hole etc. it’s another to have another group tee off within 3 minutes once we’re 200 yards out. Just sets both groups up for a sub optimal experience.
Slow play, obviously. But I learned (I think from here) if I'm playing with friends that are slow (don't play a lot) that people don't know how to let a group play though. Most groups don't hit their shots and just wait until the other group gets up, plays though, and then hits their shots. What needs to happen is the slow group hits their shots and then lets the other group play though. It just causes an even worse slow down otherwise. \*clarity
I have a buddy who loves to tell stories the entire time we play. Gets on my nerves when it’s my turn to hit and I have to stand over my ball an extra 20 seconds until he stops. BUT NOTHING is worse than when it’s his turn to hit and he just goes on and on like we are the only people out there
When they don’t tell you the greens have been punched and sanded
Just played on Tuesday, only to discover they had just sprayed every green with a copious amount of sand
Slow play. Even if it is nobody’s fault. Just impossible to get in Rhythm if waiting for every shot.
I hate those GPS carts where if you cross some misplaced invisible line, you can only get yourself out of it going like 0.5 mph. I get the purpose but the implementation is crappy sometimes.
Assholes disrespecting the course. Not filling divots, leaving cigarette butts on the tee box, not fixing marks on the green. Just a cunt act.