Finish this sentence...."You know you're in for a long day when..."

[Dpavs]

 

Pssh. Amateur. The very act of coming out of the womb was my first hole in one.

 

Meh...Beginners luck. :taunt:

[DON SVO]

Sorry, it was a hard draw around a lake to a back left pin. Actually had a 6 footer left.

 

But I have been getting better from there...

 

You weren't inside that magic 5 foot circle for eagle? Dude, you suck.

[SurfDuffer]

When you're not even 2 holes into your round and you've already taken a dozen calls from work

 

When you're stuck playing with this guy or in the group behind.

[HatsForBats]

When you are waiting for UPS/Fed-EX/DHL etc. to deliver your winter golf solution and you are sitting at work with nothing to do.

[arbitrage]

Haha! How timely! I'm sitting here waiting for the delivery of my Evnroll ER2!

[HatsForBats]

One package arrived but it doesn't do me much good without the computer or golf mat to go along with it. Wait, wait, wait. The worst part is that it is very likely on the same truck they were just stuffed and couldn't find the other stuff in the clutter. They will swing back around later.... ugh.

[Dpavs]

One package arrived but it doesn't do me much good without the computer or golf mat to go along with it. Wait, wait, wait. The worst part is that it is very likely on the same truck they were just stuffed and couldn't find the other stuff in the clutter. They will swing back around later.... ugh.

 

It's useless to you this way... let me send you my address so that you can get it out of your house.

[HatsForBats]

One package arrived but it doesn't do me much good without the computer or golf mat to go along with it. Wait, wait, wait. The worst part is that it is very likely on the same truck they were just stuffed and couldn't find the other stuff in the clutter. They will swing back around later.... ugh.

 

It's useless to you this way... let me send you my address so that you can get it out of your house.

 

The craziest part is I don't even have space to put it in my house. I do have permission to use it in the warehouse of the company I work for though. Thought I was going to have 4 days to use it this holiday weekend but that is now not going to happen (I realized about an hour ago that the Wednesday the last component is going to be delivered is next Wednesday... the horror!).

 

Working on building an enclosure that can be setup and broken down in a relative short amount of time and be transported in my car (SUV). It's not going to be easy but I think it can be done.

 

Michigan is a bit far to travel... so should I just send it by regular USPS mail and in an unprotected package?

[mjforn]

When you're about to putt a 5-footer for par on # 1 and one of the guys you're matched with tells you about his recently discovered epididymal cyst, and that "in most cases" it is nothing to worry about.

 

Wow.

 

Just wow.....

 

why oh why did I have to google that???

 

:victory: :cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy:

 

 

.

[mjforn]

The group ahead of you has their mother playing with them.

 

.....And she is the best one in the group by a large margin.

 

 

:cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy:

[Shipwreck]

We all didn't roll out of the golf womb shooting 80 and then got better from there.

 

Ummmm this is GolfWRX. Speak for yourself buddy!

 

I beg to differ; I leaped out (my superhero cape billowing behind me) and as soon as my FJ Classics hit the ground I was off to the first tee where I Eagled the 650 yard par 5 opening hole.

 

Come on this is WRX. Surely you meant to say a soft, feather cut of a 5i to a tucked pin one-hopped in the cup for Double Eagle right?

 

Sorry, it was a hard draw around a lake to a back left pin. Actually had a 6 footer left.

 

But I have been getting better from there...

 

Bush League. I always hit hard draws to front right pins. Gives the crowd something to oooh and awwww about.

[Highbury]

While warming up, hit a few off the hosel. You grab your favorite club to help kick the shanks and it gets worst.

[bogeypro]

I know I'm in for a long day when I go play golf on the weekends.

 

Seriously.... people need to learn how to pick up after 8 or 10 swings and move on to the next hole. My home course is a difficult public course. I see beginners show up and decide that they are going to get their money's worth that day. They will take every shot....even it it means 150 swings.

[Jacked_Loft]

When you're about to putt a 5-footer for par on # 1 and one of the guys you're matched with tells you about his recently discovered epididymal cyst, and that "in most cases" it is nothing to worry about.

 

Wow.

 

Just wow.....

 

why oh why did I have to google that???

 

:victory: :cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy:

 

 

No. I'm not going to Google it.

[Strömsborg]

When you have just teed off on the first tee, and you decide it's time to put on the rain gear, and it's too late because your clothes are already wet.

[JonnyKrasnodar]

People rock up and say "I've been hitting it well lately."

 

Guaranteed that they will not hit it well today.

[BlackDiamondPar5]

When you're about to putt a 5-footer for par on # 1 and one of the guys you're matched with tells you about his recently discovered epididymal cyst, and that "in most cases" it is nothing to worry about.

 

Wow.

 

Just wow.....

 

why oh why did I have to google that???

 

:victory: :cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy:

 

 

.

You know you're in for an even longer day when on the third hole Ferguson says, can you check my epididymal cyst to see if it's red or swollen? ??

[nix]

I know I'm in for a long day when I go play golf on the weekends.

 

Seriously.... people need to learn how to pick up after 8 or 10 swings and move on to the next hole. My home course is a difficult public course. I see beginners show up and decide that they are going to get their money's worth that day. They will take every shot....even it it means 150 swings.

 

More stableford. If the US golfer could change mindsets from medal play to stableford, the pace of play would increase dramatically. People want to finish the game they are playing, and they want to play by the rules generally. If people played stableford, and they can't get a bogey, they can pick up or just go and chip/putt with their buddy and move things along.

[fillwelix]

I know I'm in for a long day when I go play golf on the weekends.

 

Seriously.... people need to learn how to pick up after 8 or 10 swings and move on to the next hole. My home course is a difficult public course. I see beginners show up and decide that they are going to get their money's worth that day. They will take every shot....even it it means 150 swings.

 

More stableford. If the US golfer could change mindsets from medal play to stableford, the pace of play would increase dramatically. People want to finish the game they are playing, and they want to play by the rules generally. If people played stableford, and they can't get a bogey, they can pick up or just go and chip/putt with their buddy and move things along.

 

Totally a culture thing that needs to change. Even if it's just a case of "don't keep score" and people take their tee shots, take one or 2 more, then pick up and putt out on the green

[Pomps]

When you walk up to the first tee at any city muni in Boston in June and there is an hour back up and six groups on the first tee. You then just go to the range.

[HatsForBats]

When you get a nice weather day for mid-December but no matter what you do the emails, phone calls and problems just won't stop. Every time you put a fire out another starts. All you can do is sit and watch the minutes tick by as the opportunity to make your tee time slowly, painfully, dreadfully slips away..... I have 23 very long minutes to get my problems resolved.

[fillwelix]

When you get a nice weather day for mid-December but no matter what you do the emails, phone calls and problems just won't stop. Every time you put a fire out another starts. All you can do is sit and watch the minutes tick by as the opportunity to make your tee time slowly, painfully, dreadfully slips away..... I have 23 very long minutes to get my problems resolved.

 

When it's so nice and you're stuck at the office...

[WilliamSchmidt]

When the three randoms you are playing with all decide to play from the blues because you are. I didn't jugde until after the first few holes and they were without a fairway hit.

Even though I consistently drive the ball 270+ (direction isn't important right?)... if I play as a single and get paired with some folks playing the white tees, I just join them at the forward tees. It's more fun when you actually join the group you're playing with. Also it never gets old hearing a guy 20 years your senior go, "Oh to be young again" every time you crush one. :-D

[WilliamSchmidt]

When my 2 golf buddies invite that other guy that I don't much care for. The one who constantly tries to call out rules violations before an infraction has even taken place and takes 10 practice swings for every shot.

[DavePelz4]

When you get paired up with a single who wants to play the forward tees and then gives you a hard time when you go play further back.

 

Play what you want Sir and I'll do the same.

[Dan Drake]

I know I'm in for a long day when I go play golf on the weekends.

 

Seriously.... people need to learn how to pick up after 8 or 10 swings and move on to the next hole. My home course is a difficult public course. I see beginners show up and decide that they are going to get their money's worth that day. They will take every shot....even it it means 150 swings.

 

More stableford. If the US golfer could change mindsets from medal play to stableford, the pace of play would increase dramatically. People want to finish the game they are playing, and they want to play by the rules generally. If people played stableford, and they can't get a bogey, they can pick up or just go and chip/putt with their buddy and move things along.

 

Totally a culture thing that needs to change. Even if it's just a case of "don't keep score" and people take their tee shots, take one or 2 more, then pick up and putt out on the green

 

As a golf course pro, I can attest, the Stableford groups are wonderful. Dogfight, quota, whatever you want to call it, subtract your course handicap from 36 and go get your points. Missed your putt/chip/whatever for bogey? Pick it up and move on, you just got a zero for that hole, no biggie.

[Jackal]

When there is a 5some on the first tee.

There are 3 carts and 1 set of clubs.

It's 8 am Saturday morning.

You pull up behind the other 9 carts waiting, while the oldest player in the group explains to the other 4 how to hold a golf club.

 

 

Yeah, we went around and started on hole #5. When we got thru 18 and started back on #1, they were on #6 or #7.

[markjay1]

When my 2 golf buddies invite that other guy that I don't much care for. The one who constantly tries to call out rules violations before an infraction has even taken place and takes 10 practice swings for every shot.

 

And then stands motionless over the ball for so long you start to dial 911 because you think he's had a stroke.

[nix]

I know I'm in for a long day when I go play golf on the weekends.

 

Seriously.... people need to learn how to pick up after 8 or 10 swings and move on to the next hole. My home course is a difficult public course. I see beginners show up and decide that they are going to get their money's worth that day. They will take every shot....even it it means 150 swings.

 

More stableford. If the US golfer could change mindsets from medal play to stableford, the pace of play would increase dramatically. People want to finish the game they are playing, and they want to play by the rules generally. If people played stableford, and they can't get a bogey, they can pick up or just go and chip/putt with their buddy and move things along.

 

Totally a culture thing that needs to change. Even if it's just a case of "don't keep score" and people take their tee shots, take one or 2 more, then pick up and putt out on the green

 

As a golf course pro, I can attest, the Stableford groups are wonderful. Dogfight, quota, whatever you want to call it, subtract your course handicap from 36 and go get your points. Missed your putt/chip/whatever for bogey? Pick it up and move on, you just got a zero for that hole, no biggie.

 

Honestly the only way to change the culture is for the USGA handicapping system to go on a stableford method instead of a strokes method.

[SnapHooker_307]

When the first hole is about 530 yards or so, and the group ahead of you has 3 guys waiting for the green when the longest of the group "knocked one" about 245 in the rough. You aren't going to make it bud, just hit. We are gonna have to go grab more beer before we can finally tee off.