"We are retired; take a chill pill" - is an attitude of privilege and entitlement. This isn't a retirement community. It's a 55+ community. MANY people living in The Villages still work for a living. That means their day off, is probably only one of two or three days off they have available all week. That means this one golf game might possibly be the only one they get to play all week, or all month. If you're not in a rush, then schedule yourself for the last tee time available. You're retired afterall, you don't have to get to bed early to work in the morning right?
An actual solution that I haven't read yet, is for the party immediately behind the slow group to simply ask if they can play through. And for the slow party to say "you know what, we're slow today, go ahead."
If enough people continuously ask the slower people if they can play through, maybe the slower people will get the hint that they're going TOO slow, and either speed up, or stop scheduling their tee time so early in the day when so many other people are lining up behind them.
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