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Originally Posted by sadie44
Overall, the golf ambassadors do a nice job being "Village Ambassadors" which are no more than being glorified waterboys. There is no one on the courses making sure that the pace of play is adequate, people aren't dragging their spikes on the greens, raking traps etc. Today, we had to quit after 4 holes took 1hr 15 min. That means it would have taken us almost 3 hours to finish when we should be done in half that.
The foursome in front of us were playing off the gold tees and really needed to be playing the green tees, especially the 2 women in the group. They were not playing ready golf, taking up to 10 strokes on a hole and looking for their balls in the water instead of picking up. By the third hole, there were already 2 holes open in front of them. When I casually mentioned to the ambassador that the pace was too slow, he said it's slow all over and it's a nice day anyway.
Tee times are spaced 9 minutes apart and pace of play needs to be around 9 minutes or everyone behind a slow group suffers. I really like the ambassadors but they need to be given authority to tell people to pick up the pace, rake a trap or follow whatever rules the wonderful game of golf follows.
By the way, we're pretty decent golfers and were playing the golds because of the wind!!
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I agree, but the Ambassadors I'm sure are instructed to not ruffle any feathers. The Villages are here only to sell homes & make everybody happy & to have the ambassadors tell a golfer they're playing to slow might make some people mad (so what) & The Villages can't have that. You're are exactly right though but I really don't think these glorified water boys are going to be instructed to say anything to the golfers.