Tailgateing Golf Carts

[HKgolfgoon]

Open ? for Golfers

What compels golfers to park their golf carts as close to yours as possible? We have a big golf course, there is no need to be butted up next to each other. Just one of those questions that most likely doesn't have an good answer, I guess its the same mentality of drivers who have to right behind you in their cars. I test this all the time. I will stop at the tee box and the cart behind me pull right up to mine, and then I will move foward a little and they move foward to close the gap, I move and they move again. Maybe this is a dumb question, but I like to be able to get to my bag to grab a club without having to reach around the cart behind me. If you look around while playing you will see this on just about every tee box, carts butted up to each other so close you can't even get to you bag. The tinkerings of a small mind. It's ok if you play good, HKgolfgoon.

[resist_hard.]

You should put it in reverse and push them out of the way then ;)

 

Sadly i don't see this in the UK as we are not fat and lazy and prefer to walk around our golf courses. :) :rolleyes:

 

 

(Jokes)

[Dill Pickleson]

you should be glad you dont live in the northeast, cause if that bothers you youd go crazy here, atleast as far as i know, i live in massachusetts, and people drive like a holes all damn day, i dont get mad about much but i hate the way people drive around here, u get tailgated all day here, i used to jam on the breaks, before you jump down my throat, you dont know what its like unless your from here, anyway rant over

[highergr0und]

With regards to the other cart in my group, it's just fun to mess with each other. I've never done it to someone I didn't know though. I don't even approach the tee if the group ahead of me is on it.

 

With regards to driving wsc, I miss the aggressive driving from when I was in Chicago. Down here in the south, everyone drives slow as heck and they all stop short with 1-3 car lengths between them and the next car. I still almost rear end people on occasion after two years. It is fun though to watch people start to freak out as I approach them faster than they expect with the engine revving high on the downshift and stop a few feet from their bumper. Gotta love standards.

[Dill Pickleson]

With regards to the other cart in my group, it's just fun to mess with each other. I've never done it to someone I didn't know though. I don't even approach the tee if the group ahead of me is on it.

 

With regards to driving wsc, I miss the aggressive driving from when I was in Chicago. Down here in the south, everyone drives slow as heck and they all stop short with 1-3 car lengths between them and the next car. I still almost rear end people on occasion after two years. It is fun though to watch people start to freak out as I approach them faster than they expect with the engine revving high on the downshift and stop a few feet from their bumper. Gotta love standards.

 

 

we'd be exchanging papers lol

 

no, but really, i used to jam on the breaks when i was younger and a lil more hot headed, now when i get tailgated i just drive slower lol

 

its not bad here when you go from point a to point b, but when you drive for a living you see all the maniacs out there

 

but as to the OP, if its just golfcarts, than you should consider my "jam on the breaks meathod"

[PixlPutterman]

I usually park diagonally on the cart path that helps.

 

Now if they feel the need to go around and still park directly behind you i would try popping their tire with your divot tool. That should teach them a lesson haha

[Fore_Man]

Wsc04forever, we people up in New Hamshire call them Mass-holes. And you're right, by far the craziest drivers in America from my experience. Nobody is scared to swap a little paint! lol

[w7n23j]

I am assuming that these are carts of the group behind your group; that is definitely rude if that is the case. I have never experienced it nor have I seen it happening on every course that I have played at so far. The common practice here (TX), is that the group behind stays a several feet away from the group ahead in case of a slow pace on the course.

[mrb]

Wsc04forever, we people up in New Hamshire call them Mass-holes. And you're right, by far the craziest drivers in America from my experience. Nobody is scared to swap a little paint! lol

 

 

That's funny, us folks in CT call Mass drivers the same thing.

 

As for the OP, I hope you're referring to your playing partners. If it's anyone else, you have the right to take any means necessary to. As mentioned before, I think it's kinda rude to even approach the tee box while another group is hitting. The one and only time I break this rule is if the group ahead of me is in SEVERE violation of the pace of play. At that point I will pull up as a way to serve notice that they need to either let us through or pick up the pace.

 

However, within my own group, all bets are off. That includes tailgating, popping bag straps, etc. :yahoo:

[Dill Pickleson]

Yes, we are massholes. It's not our fault we were born in Massatoilet.

[Ronzo]

you should be glad you dont live in the northeast, cause if that bothers you youd go crazy here, atleast as far as i know, i live in massachusetts, and people drive like a holes all damn day, i dont get mad about much but i hate the way people drive around here, u get tailgated all day here, i used to jam on the breaks, before you jump down my throat, you dont know what its like unless your from here, anyway rant over

 

I used to spend 11 business days a month in Boston. They are such bad drivers there that they are PROUD of how bad they are! "Yeah, I drive like s..t. I'm from Boston." :rolleyes:

[TM golf guy]

I never have issues with tailgating. Anyone that has played with me before and been in a separate cart knows that I will throw a brake check without a moments notice. I'm not afraid to lock up the brakes on a golf cart, and I have been known to tap them in a car to get a d-bag off my bumper. I guess I am a bit brash at times, but it hasn't gotten me in any trouble up to this date. :rolleyes:

[italianstallion]

You should put it in reverse and push them out of the way then ;)

 

Sadly i don't see this in the UK as we are not fat and lazy and prefer to walk around our golf courses. :) :rolleyes:

 

 

(Jokes)

 

 

I love how America is just a bunch of fat blokes when viewed from the eyes of other countries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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But I totally agree with you. I'm fit and in shape though, so maybe I'm biased. Best golf course I ever played was Bethpage Black, and half of that is because they don't let a single cart out on that golf course. Anyone ever play a golf course that doesn't have cart paths and cart tracks meandering all over the fairways and rough? I'll tell ya, its the way golf was meant to be played.

 

I have to yell at golfers on a daily basis because of their laziness. "You can't have your cart this close to the green sir, didn't you notice the "NO CARTS" sign you ran over?" Or (my favorite) on days when the course is soaked "If there is a puddle on the cartpath, drive slowly through it and not around it onto the grass." What happens? I get out there and they've gone around the puddles onto the grass and completely rip up the conditions that the superintendent worked so hard to achieve.

 

I could go on all day.....

[mizunoman]

I just lossen their bag straps on the back of the cart ... Thatll teach em .... Just kidding I never noticed how close people park

[PuttingDoctor]

I always wondered about this as well. The other burning question used to be, "why do you want to park with two or more wheels off the cart path?" The start up traction from electric carts especially add to the wear on turf at the edges of paths.

 

On the other hand it has become a money maker for construction companies who get to curb the paths around the greens and tees.

 

All four on the path please!

[toms1090]

I agree italianstallion. There’s an old nine hole course here in Orlando that is walk only, and has very few “Cart paths”. Definitely more pleasing to the eyes.

[wardogatc]

In a funny (?) related story, I was playing Half Moon Bay - Old Course this summer. On the way from 15 to 16 up a hill, my bag mysteriously fell off my cart. The guy behind me was very close, and could not avoid my bag, running it over, with the wheels going directly over my 905R head. OUCH!

 

They guy following me felt terrible, and there was nothing he could do. If it was truley an accident that the bag fell off after 15 holes, and not a cruel joke, then que sara. If it was a cruel joke, the tirade that I threw, and the $400 worth of damage, made it not very funny.

[italianstallion]

I agree italianstallion. There’s an old nine hole course here in Orlando that is walk only, and has very few “Cart paths”. Definitely more pleasing to the eyes.

 

Problem is the carts are a huge profit margin for the course. $15 per person for a cart for 18 holes? Those things get rediculous MPG and usually never need more that a flat fixed every now and then. So if a foursome takes 2 carts, that $60 extra revenue.

[bortass]

Wsc04forever, we people up in New Hamshire call them Mass-holes. And you're right, by far the craziest drivers in America from my experience. Nobody is scared to swap a little paint! lol

 

 

That's funny, us folks in CT call Mass drivers the same thing.

 

We call 'em that in Maine too. lol.

 

I don't think I've ever run into that situation with carts on the course. maybe because i almost always walk.

[Grum]

I never have issues with tailgating. Anyone that has played with me before and been in a separate cart knows that I will throw a brake check without a moments notice. I'm not afraid to lock up the brakes on a golf cart, and I have been known to tap them in a car to get a d-bag off my bumper. I guess I am a bit brash at times, but it hasn't gotten me in any trouble up to this date. :rolleyes:

 

Lucky man, that very trick(along with a one fingered salute out the window) had someone over take and do an emergency stop infront of me, only for them to try and kick f*ck out of me.

 

Its fun to play with tailgators, be careful though, lol!

[resist_hard.]

You should put it in reverse and push them out of the way then ;)

 

Sadly i don't see this in the UK as we are not fat and lazy and prefer to walk around our golf courses. :) :rolleyes:

 

 

(Jokes)

 

 

I love how America is just a bunch of fat blokes when viewed from the eyes of other countries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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But I totally agree with you. I'm fit and in shape though, so maybe I'm biased. Best golf course I ever played was Bethpage Black, and half of that is because they don't let a single cart out on that golf course. Anyone ever play a golf course that doesn't have cart paths and cart tracks meandering all over the fairways and rough? I'll tell ya, its the way golf was meant to be played.

 

I have to yell at golfers on a daily basis because of their laziness. "You can't have your cart this close to the green sir, didn't you notice the "NO CARTS" sign you ran over?" Or (my favorite) on days when the course is soaked "If there is a puddle on the cartpath, drive slowly through it and not around it onto the grass." What happens? I get out there and they've gone around the puddles onto the grass and completely rip up the conditions that the superintendent worked so hard to achieve.

 

I could go on all day......

 

I was partially joking.

 

To be honest though if i had to play in heat you get out there sometimes i would opt for a cart. When i played in spain earlier in the year i decided i was going to play without a cart and just walk. I immediately regretted it though. 3 holes later i was burning up and couldn't concentrate at all. IMO carts are only good for shade!

[f123acez]

lol i guess my dad is a mass-hole :lol:

[jcm]

Massachusetts is for wimps. In Rhode Island its not tailgating if the bumpers don't touch.