June Wedding Parties ???
Last week at Deer Park and Saturday at Sundance our groups ran into Wedding parties. Playing golf, or sort of.
Is this something new and wonderful? NO!
The Deer Park event was a batchelor party. Yup…a bunch of drunk guys getting served more booze by the beverage cart girl. We spoke to her and she said the marshall had gone home. Now I know Craig Schuh, and if he had been in our group he would have been livid. So, we are on 15, and these guys have slowed to a crawl, are chatting with the next group (also party-boys). We are a five-some with two carts, always keeping up with them, often waiting, and finally we issue some encouraging words from the tee box. Good ending: They pick it up and we don’t see them again.
Sundance: This is a group of women…apparently a batchelorette party. At least eight carts full - very chatty and slow. They tee off as a six-some in front of us and take 25 minutes to play #1. Then they break up into a foursome and a two-some on the second tee. But the cart really doesn’t help, because they spray balls everywhere and nowhere. I’m waiting and waiting on the little bench watching all this and turn to my playing partners and thank them, shake their hands and say goodbye. I trot back to the pro shop and get a raincheck. The pro is courteous.
But it’s not golf and it’s not fair to those who would actually like to play golf, not dink around with clubs and balls and party on the pretty grass.
It’s also a sign of the recession, I guess. Cashflow is cashflow. Very sad for golf, however.
Is this something new and wonderful? NO!
The Deer Park event was a batchelor party. Yup…a bunch of drunk guys getting served more booze by the beverage cart girl. We spoke to her and she said the marshall had gone home. Now I know Craig Schuh, and if he had been in our group he would have been livid. So, we are on 15, and these guys have slowed to a crawl, are chatting with the next group (also party-boys). We are a five-some with two carts, always keeping up with them, often waiting, and finally we issue some encouraging words from the tee box. Good ending: They pick it up and we don’t see them again.
Sundance: This is a group of women…apparently a batchelorette party. At least eight carts full - very chatty and slow. They tee off as a six-some in front of us and take 25 minutes to play #1. Then they break up into a foursome and a two-some on the second tee. But the cart really doesn’t help, because they spray balls everywhere and nowhere. I’m waiting and waiting on the little bench watching all this and turn to my playing partners and thank them, shake their hands and say goodbye. I trot back to the pro shop and get a raincheck. The pro is courteous.
But it’s not golf and it’s not fair to those who would actually like to play golf, not dink around with clubs and balls and party on the pretty grass.
It’s also a sign of the recession, I guess. Cashflow is cashflow. Very sad for golf, however.
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