[John_W]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Absolutely an idiotic suggestion. Last thing I want after 50+ years of playing golf, many of them in competition, is someone with less golfing knowledge and skill, less familiar with the rules and etiquette wasting my time in a mandatory lecture. Save it for the inexperienced, and then when someone violates a rule of etiquette, give the ambassador the power to issue a "ticket", 3 tickets and good golf school is mandatory. BTW, do you know who holds the course record at Havana? (black tees, Hemingway to Kilimanjaro) ? Answer, Patrick Reed. Under your proposal he would have had to go to "good golf" school before he could play

I took the class in 2011 and started playing golf in St. Petersburg at age 12 in 1962, but enjoyed the class and it's more than an hour, it was 2-1/2 hours when I took it at Colony Cottage. Two things wrong with your assumption. The golf portion is taught by one of the country club pros. He only goes into local procedures as pertaining to local rules. I had no idea you're to leave the rake inside the trap with the head facing toward the middle. The golf teetime portion is taught by one of the administrators of the Villages Golf Administration. Basically two people who are well informed and are the ones you would seek for answers.