COMMUNITY

First few tee times during the weekdays will be around 3-3 1/2 hr. Normally a wekday roud is about 4 1/2 hr.
Weekends; forget it, it's 5 - 6 hr. round if you don;t have a lot of "pluggers" in front of you.
Get this, around here, even Fridays are considered weekend ( so they could charge the weekend green fee at 15%-30% additional ).

Here in Atlanta - some public courses are really bad about taking 5:30 - 6 hours, but there are the Canongate courses (semi-private) which mandate max 4:15 and will make groups skip holes if they are lagging. The biggest shocker to me is Cobblestone - they are owned by Cobb Cty - but I have twice seen them force slow groups to skip holes - We had a back up on Friday of 3 groups on the long (230 yd) par 3 - waited for 25 mins to play - but by the time we were on the next tee - they had made the slow group get off the course - and we (4some) finished with an overall time of 4hours - even with the delay. Pretty good for a public (cty owned) course on a crwoded Friday afternoon!

I remembered, when I started to golf, I was going through the lessons and practice for about a year before I got on a par 3 course and graduated to an exacutive 9 holes in 6 months and stated to play the regulation 18 after that.
I guess the modern way of thinking is to get there quick and get it now. Buy a new set of clubs and hit the driving range several times and off you go.
I don't see anyone getting much enjoyment out of that kind of golf, not to speak of ruining others golf game by plugging the flow of the play.

ON A FAST PACE ,TAKES 3-1/2 HOURS ON A VERY SLOW PACE,TAKES 5 HOURS