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Originally Posted by Leadbone1
You need to just go play by yourself. You’re taking it way too seriously. I’m not surprised though! It seems that out on this ‘talk of the villages’ there are so many people that are just looking for reasons to be offended. I guess this gives them a venue to do that. Excessive whining every day! Yes I know, I have the option to just stop reading it!
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OP is obviously a serious golfer and those he was playing with on this particular day were not at all serious golfers. That said, on TOTV we tend to criticize the OP’S that start a thread way more than we should for expressing their opinions or explaining their experience on the subject of their thread. I agree, my experience playing occasionaly as a single golfer with strangers, most are very cordial golfers but some know little about about golf etiquette. Shortly after becoming a resident in The Villages we attended “good golf school”. This was 12 years ago so I can’t speak about their current presentation. As I remember, there was very little about golf etiquette as described by the OP. In short, they (good golf school) could do better.
I started playing golf in my thirties but read a lot about golf and golf etiquette and hit the practice facilities before I ever went on a golf course. It’s pretty easy to educate yourself. When I play with my usual group of guys we play “ready up golf” and we certainly have fun but don’t talk while one of us are teeing off. Because of our age we might accidentally stumble into a players line or forget which way the sun is shining but we are still swinging and never plan to give up. Fore!