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Originally Posted by rubicon
The PGA/USGA promotion by Arnold Palmer of "while I am still young" rings true. Unnecessary piddling can add much time to a game and create an unnecessary and rather rude back up.
I have played with guys who are cordial not rushing but consciously in the game so that we finish before or at the recommended time for play.
On the other hand I have played with guys who seem to suffer from some sort of obsessive disorder that adds greatly to time or they sit over a shot forever.
To make my point Major League Baseball also has an issue with time and has advised its players to cut back on some of the rituals they perform before making a pitch or going to bat
I played one course in the same week recently. The difference was an additional half hour because of the : why I am young routines were performed by two different players on the second day. One of the players had the same routine and it took him about three minutes before he tee his driver on ever hole. In that same vein I have played with guys that balked if you pulled the stick..now that's too much and that is rude and that's not golf.
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Ok, I fail to see where fixing divots constitutes piddling; getting a sand bottle and pouring the sand takes about 30 seconds and repairing a ball mark on a green takes maybe 10 seconds. Or have we dived off into another subject?