sandwedge
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- Oct 19, 2006
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Have you ever been stuck behind a slow group and asked to play through and then been told no?
I played a round this Saturday with a friend of mine at 8:30 am on a busy course. We were just a twosome. We got stuck behind a group of 4 women in their 60's. They were pretty slow and hitting the ball all over the place.
When we finally finished the front 9 and got to the 10th tee we noticed there were just 2 of them and they were sitting in their cart in front of the ladies tees. I asked them if they were waiting on someone and if they mind if we play through. The one lady said no we cannot play through, they were waiting on the other 2 ladies who had to stop at the restroom. My buddy said we really want to play through if you aren't ready yet. She said there was no use because the course was backed up and they would just have to turn around and wait on us. The 10th hole is a long par 4 and the group in front was already on the green. There was no reason for them not to let us play through if they were just sitting in their cart waiting.
My friend said "Ma'am we are just going to play through anyway if you are not going now". She jumped out of her cart and starting yelling and telling us we have no golf etiquette and how rude we are. My friend teed his ball up and then she jumps in his way about 20 feet ahead of him. He told her to please back away so she doesn't get hit. She moves over and then starts yelling again. We both hit our shots and went on our way. By this time the group in front had already left the green and the other 2 ladies in her foursome where just pulling up.
We ended up 2 holes later being an entire hole in front of them. They finally caught up to us on 17 when the group in front of us decided to all hit 2 balls off the tee and then spend 5 minutes looking for them. Just when I was teeing off on 17 she came driving up and stopped her cart right behind ours. She didn't stop 10 or 20 yards back to give me some space. I kept my mouth shut but I was fuming. She started telling us we were rude again and didn't know golf etiquette.
Has anyone encountered anything like this? Was it wrong of us to play through without their permission even though the entire par 4 was open and they weren't ready to play?
I played a round this Saturday with a friend of mine at 8:30 am on a busy course. We were just a twosome. We got stuck behind a group of 4 women in their 60's. They were pretty slow and hitting the ball all over the place.
When we finally finished the front 9 and got to the 10th tee we noticed there were just 2 of them and they were sitting in their cart in front of the ladies tees. I asked them if they were waiting on someone and if they mind if we play through. The one lady said no we cannot play through, they were waiting on the other 2 ladies who had to stop at the restroom. My buddy said we really want to play through if you aren't ready yet. She said there was no use because the course was backed up and they would just have to turn around and wait on us. The 10th hole is a long par 4 and the group in front was already on the green. There was no reason for them not to let us play through if they were just sitting in their cart waiting.
My friend said "Ma'am we are just going to play through anyway if you are not going now". She jumped out of her cart and starting yelling and telling us we have no golf etiquette and how rude we are. My friend teed his ball up and then she jumps in his way about 20 feet ahead of him. He told her to please back away so she doesn't get hit. She moves over and then starts yelling again. We both hit our shots and went on our way. By this time the group in front had already left the green and the other 2 ladies in her foursome where just pulling up.
We ended up 2 holes later being an entire hole in front of them. They finally caught up to us on 17 when the group in front of us decided to all hit 2 balls off the tee and then spend 5 minutes looking for them. Just when I was teeing off on 17 she came driving up and stopped her cart right behind ours. She didn't stop 10 or 20 yards back to give me some space. I kept my mouth shut but I was fuming. She started telling us we were rude again and didn't know golf etiquette.
Has anyone encountered anything like this? Was it wrong of us to play through without their permission even though the entire par 4 was open and they weren't ready to play?