Oh, the rudeness and the weirdness.

[Lamma]

Yesterday, while playing as a single at my private course I was chugging along, playing well (for me anyway) and no one in front of me until I came upon a twosome who in my estimation were taking a really long time for just two guys.

I was hitting greens as they drove away and then I'd finish the hole and the second guy would just be teeing off on the next. I figured I'd just wait for them to wave me up or ask me to play through, but after four holes it was apparent it wasn't going to happen. So I skipped the hole I was waiting for and drove to next and eventually came back to the hole I'd skipped.

They saw me. They even said "Hello" as they were leaving one teebox. But no invite to play through. They might have thought they were playing quickly but I believe contrary.

Then two holes later, with seemingly no one in front of me, I tee off. Then when I get to where my shot landed I see a guy in the trees off to my left. I thought at first that the twosome behind me started playing faster but then I realized that this guy was a single like me, but for some reason was hiding out in the trees.

I felt bad because I don't hit up on people and if I would have known he was there I would have waited. So I waived him to go ahead but he just kept making practice swings the opposite way. He saw me, but he didn't acknowledge me. So then I went ahead and finished out the hole only to look back and see him staring at me with his hands on his hips, like I'm some sort of jerk.

My thought was "What in the hell were you doing in those trees anyway?" There was no way he could have seen me teeing off from his position so he must have been there for a while doing who knows what. There is a backyard near there with a pool so maybe some hot MILF was sun bathing before I got there. But that begs the question as to what he would have been doing...

Strange day on the course I guess.

 

[The master]

There is a backyard near there with a pool so maybe some hot MILF was sun bathing before I got there.

Strange day on the course I guess.

If only things like that actually happened.

I get stuck behind slow people all the time so many women and slow people shouldn't be allowed to play golf.

 

[Matty]

People take the piss with practice swings & shit like that at the tee, bugs me big time.

 

[obagain]

Sorry but as a single you have no rights. Although it would be nice of the twosome to let you thru they are not obligated. Golf is a game of sportsmanship, ment to be played with partners. The ettiquite is such that a singe is frowned upon.

I play as a single a lot and will always hit 2 balls on every hole or putt from 4-5 different positions on the green to keep a gap if I am not invited to play thru.

 

[LottaBalata]

Sorry but as a single you have no rights. Although it would be nice of the twosome to let you thru they are not obligated. Golf is a game of sportsmanship, ment to be played with partners. The ettiquite is such that a singe is frowned upon.

I play as a single a lot and will always hit 2 balls on every hole or putt from 4-5 different positions on the green to keep a gap if I am not invited to play thru.

I'm not sure if I agree with golf being a game where you are "meant" or supposed to have partners. Its a social game for sure, but I'm the only one scoring on "my team"! I'm not passin' the club off to anyone else and not helping anyone else in their game. ALso, if there's a foursome playing decent speed, with a single player waiting behind them at every hole, it just makes sense to let the single go thru. I guess I've just never heard of "groups" taking precedence over a single. Doesn't strike me as sensible. And as far as ettiquette, I would just assume let someone in a hurry, through.

 

[goatster]

ob is right.generaly most people will let singles play thru.but i have been to courses and seen signs that say that singles have no rights.therefore you dont have to let a single play thru.but it is the polite thing to do.
most palces wont even allow singles on weekends.ive also had courses tell me that if i call for a tee time as a twosome they reserve the right to pair me up with a single or another twosome.

 

[dave.]

I would have abandoned the round and gone MILF hunting in the woods tbh.

 

[spankdoggie]

Kick his ass Lamma!

 

[LottaBalata]

ob is right.generaly most people will let singles play thru.but i have been to courses and seen signs that say that singles have no rights.therefore you dont have to let a single play thru.but it is the polite thing to do.
most palces wont even allow singles on weekends.ive also had courses tell me that if i call for a tee time as a twosome they reserve the right to pair me up with a single or another twosome.

I should have written a little more in my response. I do agree with ob that a lot of times, singles aren't welcome on a course. Or they do group you with someone else. I don't have a problem with it. I just don't agree that golf should be looked at as a game of groups. I get grouped from time to time at my home course. As long as the others in the group are cool, I'm cool with it. I don't like being placed, and then ignored by everyone in the group. Dealt with that a couple times over the years.

 

[dave.]

Singles not welcome on a course? I can't agree with that.Hogan used to wonder about into his seventies,would he have been welcome?

 

[obagain]

I went to a course in Tennessee and as a single I was paire with 2 other gentleman. When I walked up to them I was greeted with, look at this guy, we will be looking for his ball all day. After the introductions I was informed they were in a regular game and I should stay out of their way and try to keep up.

After the 4th hole I was up 3 strokes and although I was walking and they were riding, they were struggling to keep up. After the 6th hole one decided he was too tired to go on so they left.
Normally if the group makes it plain they don't want me I will go back to the club house and ask to be put in a different group but these guys were so obnoxious that I had to drill them.

 

[obagain]

Dave,
Singles are welcome at some courses, they wont turn money away. They would rather you play as groups, that is why you forfit your rights, you are playing too fast, they are not playing too slow.

He was walking around the club house and sometimes would go to the range but rarely played.
I can tell you though, when you teed it up at shady oaks and saw him sitting in his normal chair, which faced the tee box, even good players would get the shakes.
Our shop is only a mile from shady and 10 minutes from colonial. When the club house burned at shady, they lost most of the hogan mystique.

 

[dave.]

To me,the mystique will never die.


This is a c+p of a post I pooped into another forum;

Hogan returned to pro golf after nearly dying in a car crash,he was paralysed and in a coma,yet he came back and won the US Open 2 years later.Later in his life he played until his seventies,until he had major surgery and later he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.Obviously he had long since stopped hitting golf balls and he hadn't been seen at his club for over a year,this was when he was 80.

But one day,in his 81st year,(1997)and near death,he turned up and asked for his driver.The sheel shocked club pro handed him his club and Hogan said nothing apart from thank you,and he picked up 3 range balls and he hobbled off to the 10th tee.

Its a dog-leg 90 degree left.The astonished pro followed him with his binoculars and watched as Hogan,with cancer,near to death,having not hit balls regularly for years,smoke one 250 yards down the fairway.He then looked in amazement at where the ball landed,in the perfect spot on the right of the fairway with a clear line to the hole.10 yards further and 10 yards less and the line wouldn't have been as good,it was the perfect drive.

What happened next is just incredible (to anyone who loves golf).He teed another up and smacked it 1 foot further,and in his binoculars Hogan shook his head,and hit the last ball.It landed inches further,and he nodded in satisfaction.The watching pro to this day says you could have placed a bucket over the balls.

No one knows why Hogan chose 3 balls,but he probably knew he had days to live and we can only speculate,but maybe he just visualized his own course and the perfect shots,in a effort to try and nullify the pain in his last few years in life.And maybe,just maybe,he couldn't visualize the perfect drive on that hole and he needed he try it out.Who knows.

They were the last 3 balls he ever hit.He died soon after.

I believe he was the greatest sportsmen that ever lived.The end.

His life was just a million anecdotes,maybe the one above is another,but its in his authorised biography,and tbh,I want it to be true so much I couldn't care less whether it happened or not.Fact is its easy to believe for such an incredible man,so I believe it in his memory.

 

[DaveE]

Singles play at our course all the time. When there's no one ahead of us we let them through, no big deal.

Most of the time though I see them playing 2 or 3 balls so that they keep pace with the other grouups. I know that's what I do when I play by myself.