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Old 08-15-2021, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by golfing eagles View Post
First of all, there are ONLY SLOW greens in The Villages, so take #2 off the list.
#1 is part of it, but by far#3 is the main cause-----5 practice swings, 2 minutes to line up a putt, etc.
And of course my favorite-----people parking 30 yards away from their ball, taking 5 practice swings, then going back to their cart (at a snails pace) to get another club, then 5 more practice swings.......
I wasn't intending to confine the discussion to just the Villages golf, but golf in general. I will say that we played Lopez at least twice last winter when the greens were fast enough that if you were above the hole, you weren't going to stop some of those putts anywhere but in the cup, or off the green. But that's rare. Play was very slow those days, BTW, while people 4 putted.