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Tips for fast play
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My last few rounds have seemed a bit slower so I guess it’s a fair question: I find the simple guesture of watching your or playing partners ball come to rest speeds things up. Easier o locate.
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We can probably break the tips into three sections for the player to improve their speed whilst playing: 1) Pre shot The other items were discussed in a different thread on course set up, course management etc. So what one item would you recommend for each of the above three items.
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I have one simple thing that I do take your driver headcover onto the tee box, once you have hit put the headcover back on there and do your scorecard then too that way when youve hit and get back to your buggy youre away…I have often walked 30 meters and looked back and guys are still fluffing about with headcovers!! take it onto the teebox – trsut me it saves time yes watch opponents shots and where they land. hit your shot on the fairway before you go looking for opponents if safe to do so. That way if they find thier ball they play and youre all away. walk faster!! geez if you cant walk at 5 km per hour get a cart!! park your buggy at the far exit point – in other words close to the where you have to walk for the next tee get a gps..they do save time!! forget all the crap arguements – they do save a club golfer time.
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If you throw away formality…...the easiest way is to play “ready golf.” It gives guys who like to take their time, a chance to think and the guys who like to play quick a chance to keep moving.
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Police search line walking up the fairways and chatting on the green after holing out with still more holes to play are pet peeves of mine. I don’t mind chit chat when playing a round of golf, but don’t stop moving, scoring, replacing head covers etc just because your mouth is yapping. Ready golf is best, and something I insist on. Trying to keep within a shot of the group in front and if playing stroke, and someone hits an errant shot with a certain level of doubt regarding finding it, insist on a provisional. If you have a lengthy preshot routine, try and get to your ball aspap, within reason and out of harms way, so that you can start your sequence right after your partners hit off and start making their way up the fairway. Another big contributor to slow play is in attentiveness. Some peeps just have no idea what is happening aroun them and a nudge or 10 from those in the group should wake them from their reverie. Lol sounds more like a rant than a suggestion lol.
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Good thread this. After coming back to golf after an extended break of 10 years, it’s little pointers like this that will make the transition to “ready golf” a bit smoother hopefully.
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Run between shots? When I play with someone who is fidgety and playing as if they’re in a rush, I suggest that they run … as fecking far away as possible.
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Pre shot routines are rubbish !! There someone has said it! What you do before a skill has no connection between another skill when there is a gap…. They are not connected….its the mind that connects them. A chopper wont improve with a great pre shot routine That doesnt mean rush either just dont believe in them….in fact I’d argue the quicker we execute the less time we give the brain to cast doubt…. See…choose club …adress ..pull trigger..
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Sounds like a pre shot routine to me albeit a very short one;)
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Key word is routine. Doesn’t have to be long or short. But that’s a discussion for another thread. More specifically for this thread is the length of time it takes. TTR out of curiosity- what length of time does it usually take for a round for you?
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Walk faster, too many people fucking dawdle along in their own world.
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As long as the conditions allow Ghetto. If my group is spraying them all over the place of course it goes slower. If everyone is on the fairway & hitting them well it goes quicker. Keeping tabs with the group in front is the benchmark. This subject generally does my head it. Usually turns into a whinge-fest by the 2nd post. Generally speaking, anyone who brags to me about how quick he can play his rounds is thought of in the same contempt as someone who claims he drives 350m. I recently ditched a guy from my regular group b/c he plays golf like he’s on speed. One of my group gave him a real spray recently about the way he was going on => at the first green. He often races ahead & putts out while others are still approaching the green. Then he often walks off the green & fills his card out while others are still to putt out. I hold those knuckleheads in the same contempt as the so called dawdlers.
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Agree with most ideas, as I walk to my ball (hopefully on the fairway) I have worked out pretty much what club i will be using when I get there. Also awareness of your surroundings, too many times you get caught behind a group who have no idea that you are there they are to engrossed in their own world. Standing in the middle of the fairway for 3 holes while the group tops their 4th shot 10 ft forward annoys the hell out of me. Saying that the funniest thing i saw was catching up to a group of 4 who are a regular group playing together. I was by myself on this instance and after following them for 3 holes they could see me getting pissed at not being allowed to play through, they then literally started running from the green to the next tee hitting off quickly so I wouldn’t catch them. thought one of them was going to have a heart attack!!!!
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We tend to observe hitting honours in my grouping, with one exception – I hit a fair way longer than my playing partners so they will often take the honour (as well as on the fairway) if I can’t hit yet. Choosing your club if at all possible on your way to your ball. I often check my GPS when waiting for my partner to hit their shot, so I can have a fair idea of what the distance will be when I get to my ball. Watch where people’s balls go – saves so much time. Often around the green there are circumstances where the person who has the shot will take some time to get to it (eg they have chipped through the green and they have to get to it and choose their shot, or they are raking a bunker). In those circumstances where it is safe to do so, the other players should putt out while waiting. If you have picked up, offer to rake bunkers or tend flag or generally assist the other players on the hole.
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Sounds like, Yarn and Codboy’s pre shot routine.
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Take less practice swings. It seems as though the higher the handicap, the more practice swings. 7 perfect practice swings, 1 duffed shot. Very frustrating to play with or behind.
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great point. I personally hate running around a golf course. If people are more interested in going out and rushing around the course than enjoying the game, then they should take up jogging or ultramarathons.
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perhaps they are just enjoying their day?
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Currently it’s between 30/40 degree and 70/90% humidity. Although I enjoy being out there it’s a bit tropical to not be concerned with how long you’re out there.
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run …
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More like see, ball gone.
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Not always the case. Played in front of a group of 3 big hitting low single figure players today. We were a group of four including an 89 year old. When we finished the 18th I looked back and the group behind were still on the 16th tee.
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keep your position immediately behind the group in front, ignore what the group behind is doing. if you lose ground the best way i know to regain it is for the group to agree that as soon as the first player has putted out, he will head to the next tee and tee off ( making sure not to hit while someone else is putting) the second player putting out will do the same, etc, etc and the final player will replace the flag himself. you’d be amazed at how quickly you can pick up a fairway in this manner. I think most of the wasted time in golf comes fromthe time we get on the green till the time we tee off the next hole
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if you lose ground the best way i know to regain it is for the group to agree that as soon as the first player has putted out, he will head to the next tee and tee off ( making sure not to hit while someone else is putting) the second player putting out will do the same, etc, etc and the final player will replace the flag himself. im not entirely sold on this hcwt, also is the duty of the lowest marker to bring to the groups attention the speed of play
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This is the received wisdom at our club too, but I am not convinced that it saves that much time. I haven’t really seen this tactic catch us up with the group in front, but I have seen it stress people out and lead to more eastward shots.
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