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Originally Posted by justjim
While COVID is still around we are operating under different rules and that has been made clear in this thread. My personal pet peeve is people who don’t fix ball marks on the greens. I always fix mine and usually a couple more if pace of play allows. Fore!
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Pet peeves? I have a whole list of them:
People who put one end or the other of their putter into the hole and chew up the edge---if you can bend over and put a tee in the ground to start a hole, you can bend over and carefully remove your ball from the cup at the end of the hole.
People who step within 6 inches of the cup over and over----recipe from creating the "lumpy donut"
People with RA tags who drive on the fringe, or between traps, or park in front of the green. They are usually the last to leave and then spend time just parked there
People who start to leave a green and halfway to the edge have a conversation
People who leave the green, but stay next to it fussing with their bag or clubs or scorecard for a minute. Doesn't seem like much but multiply it by 18 and you see the result
People who clearly hit a ball into a penalty area where even if found there is no chance of hitting it, but spend 3-5 minutes looking. Just take your penalty drop and move on.
People in a foursome with 4 carts, but all move in a group to the first ball, and then the second.......
And I can go on
The best may have been yesterday 4 women playing Egret 8 from the green tees. The hole is 236 yards, uphill, and was into a 2 club wind. Yet none of them teed off until the green was clear! There are only a handful of LPGA touring pros that could reach that green under those circumstances. Needless to say, the best drive among them was less than halfway to the green. Pretty optimistic assessment of their driving distances in my opinion.
If anyone disagrees that these are all unacceptable behaviors, please feel free to attend good golf school.