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Attention All Golfers...
Goynes42
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...lose some weight, get in shape, STAY in shape, pick your dang feet up on the greens and stop scuffing them up (soft spikes save greens MY A$$, ain't got nothing to do with spikes), repair your freaking ball marks and rake the bunkers!!!

I played at Indian Creek yesterday, which is a great, gorgeous golf course right up the road. They had just finished a tournament, I watched the mass exodus of guys going to their cars as I was pulling up. I get on the course and I have NEVER seen so many scuff marks on the greens because people are too fat/lazy to pick their feet up when they walk. And so many unrepaired ball marks it looked like a damn war zone. And none of the brand new white sand bunkers were raked. Footprints and divots EVERYWHERE. (Fortunately I only got in one of them all day!)

Seriously guys, a golf course is a nice establishment. Treat it like one. All this crap that golfers leave behind eventually translates to either 1) poorer course conditions or 2) higher greens fees to pay for the extra hours put in by the grounds crew fixing stuff you're responsible for.

Rant over. Carry on.
HOGAN418
Professional Champion
 
# 1    6/29/2013 9:11:36 PM   
I feel ya...


armygrunt47
Professional Champion
 
# 2    6/29/2013 9:12:36 PM   
I have had 3 occasions this year where golfers have literally spun a 360 on the green with spikes on. All 3 were within 5 feet of the cup.


Vincedaddy
Legend
 
# 3    6/29/2013 9:21:08 PM   
Played with a guy yesterday from Ireland. He marked his ball by scratching a V behind the ball with a tee! I was shocked. Speechless. Still scratching my head on that one. He did only do it once.


tothetop777
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# 4    6/29/2013 9:47:00 PM   

Played with a guy yesterday from Ireland. He marked his ball by scratching a V behind the ball with a tee! I was shocked. Speechless. Still scratching my head on that one. He did only do it once.


Did you scratch an "L" in his forehead?


BUCKNUT
Legend
 
# 5    6/29/2013 9:48:38 PM   
HEY! I'm trying to lose weight! lol I pick up my feet. I bitch about the same thing all the time though. It's like someone is dragging them across the green, and your right it seems to always be right by the hole. Ball marks and spike drags drive me nuts.


Mark Simmons
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# 6    6/30/2013 12:15:22 AM   
Worse, I'll bet every single guy in that tourament had a cart, so it wasn't like they got tired out walking 5-7 miles.


OtterMan08
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# 7    6/30/2013 6:16:19 AM   
Ah yes, the hunched shoulder, toe dragging, shuffle-foot. They are like those geese that don't migrate anymore and just leave icky residue behind. Another good reason for compulsory military service. I've never seen anyone who's spent four years in any branch drag their toes when walking.

We pick up our head, square our shoulders, lean back, set 'em in... All together now! LEFT, Left, Your LEFT-RIGHT-LEFT!! The hospital corners died the day I got my discharge, I still set my heels when I walk though.

I have also noticed a problem with many greens in my area. They are just covered with strange indentations, some sort of subsidence issue, no doubt. I have this wonderful metal tool, kind of long and flat with two long prongs on it. What you do is, stick the prongs into the green all around the strange little dents while everyone else is trying to find a line around the other dents. Just push the edges together and tap down with the putter and the green is flat again. I get four or five of them fixed in a ten foot circle and one or two more as I walk off the green. Only leaving a few dozen behind...


jlm3emtp
LowIndex
 
# 8    6/30/2013 8:15:47 AM   
I am with you 100% Goynes.....very frustrating. The only problem is I think you are preaching to choir....because the idiots that don't take care of the courses probably aren't on forums like these.


Vincedaddy
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# 9    6/30/2013 8:23:05 AM   
Each course needs to install 36 cameras. One showing each tee box, one showing each green. Two rangers, one roaming and one watching the monitors and directing the roamer to problem areas. Clearly state the course policies at the pro shop and enforce them on the course.


JD
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# 10    6/30/2013 7:48:15 PM   
Since we are ventjng! I think that golf courses should give a general golf rules/etiquette test before a golfer is allowed to play. You don't know how many times I've run into unraked traps, which I try to tend to. It drives me crazy when the prints are leaving the high side of the bunker and the depressions from feet are deep. Mo-rons, exit on the low side and take a friggen rake w/ you!

Thanks Dave, I feel a little better :)


SouthernLion
Professional Champion
 
# 11    6/30/2013 7:54:51 PM   
If I were to rant about golf it would be about courses that scimp on the amenities. There's a great course here in the San Antonio area that I won't name. It's a great course, but at least half the ball washers were either dry or broken and the ones that were working had not been cleaned and the water was brown and foul smelling. The tees, fairways, and greens were in great shape, but the washers (and there were NO club washing boxes) were sad, sad, sad.

SL


jschauer Schauer
Professional Champion
 
# 12    7/2/2013 1:15:02 PM   
I've worked on grounds crew at my local country club and a regular divot in the fairway cost any where (depending on how deep and massive) from !$12 - $25 per divot.

I always put my divots back because they WILL grow back and I always repair my ball marks.

We used to have this stuff that was like miracle grow on steroids. it costs $2000 a gallon and it treats (when mixed with water) only 500 gallons or (20,000 sq yards.


mtags
LowIndex
 
# 13    7/2/2013 6:01:57 PM   
I deal with this just about every Sunday morning. I play the first tee time in the morn. The course I play has a big company outing almost every Sat. afternoon. Company outings attract everyone from regular golfers to those who have never played in their life. Most have no idea of golf etiquette. Our 4 some should get to play our round for free, because of all the ball marks we repair and the traps we rake.