[CWSBLUE]

Love the black...

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

I've had an Ambass say they told a group to speed up, but not experienced.

Same...

[BrianL99]

I've been playing golf for 40 years. I managed a very exclusive, 45 hole facility for a couple of years.

Across the country, the standard time to play 18 holes, is between 4 hours and 4:15. I prefer faster and with a cart on an open course, average about 2:30 minutes. Unfortunately, that's just not practical under normal circumstances.

I recently bought in The Villages and I've played golf 18 out of the last 21 days. My fastest round was 3.5 hours, the longest was 4:30 minutes. My average 18 hole time has been 4 hours & 10 minutes. Right in the middle of the national average.

As of today, I've played every one of the Championship courses, other than Orange Blossom. It seems to me, that someone is doing a great job of maintaining the Pace of Play in The Villages, especially considering we're dealing with an older clientele, prime season and 8 minute Tee Time spacing (most Private Courses use 10 minute intervals).

Keep up the great work and don't listen to the complainers!

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by BrianL99

I've been playing golf for 40 years. I managed a very exclusive, 45 hole facility for a couple of years.

Across the country, the standard time to play 18 holes, is between 4 hours and 4:15. I prefer faster and with a cart on an open course, average about 2:30 minutes. Unfortunately, that's just not practical under normal circumstances.

I recently bought in The Villages and I've played golf 18 out of the last 21 days. My fastest round was 3.5 hours, the longest was 4:30 minutes. My average 18 hole time has been 4 hours & 10 minutes. Right in the middle of the national average.

As of today, I've played every one of the Championship courses, other than Orange Blossom. It seems to me, that someone is doing a great job of maintaining the Pace of Play in The Villages, especially considering we're dealing with an older clientele, prime season and 8 minute Tee Time spacing (most Private Courses use 10 minute intervals).

Keep up the great work and don't listen to the complainers!

[Laker14]

Playing Palmer, last Friday, our group was told to pick up the pace. We were told we were 15 minutes behind. Actually, we were 4 minutes behind. We were asked politely to pick up our pace. Curiously, we were told this as we walked off the 17th green. The other interesting thing is that when we got done with the round, we recapped how many holes we had to wait on. There were 6 holes we had to wait on, including the 3 holes on the 2nd nine. We also waited a good 10 minutes at the turn. So, although we were behind the time par on the card, if the hadn't had to wait, we'd been well ahead of 4 hours. Of course, the ambassador doesn't know that. He was polite. Just doing his job.
Of our 4 golfers, the highest handicap in the group was a 3. The greens were fast, some of the pin placements ridiculous for the speed and slope of the green. I'm a good putter, a 2 handicap on that course (white tees) and I had a 4 putt from 6 feet. My cart partner, a 3 handicap, had a 4 putt also, on a different green, from about 8 feet. Three putts were too numerous to mention.
Fast greens, steep slopes, and fast play do not go together.

[Bethwill]

Obviously you're playing your second nine after 1:00. The rest of the year, after June, people can play nine holes all day long. We occasionally see people waiting at the turn for the scheduled tee time groups to tee off. I guess it's more of a seasonal problem. Fewer players in the afternoons in the summer. Tee times have always been 8 minutes apart.

[Bethwill]

Obviously you're playing your second nine after 1:00. The rest of the year, after June, people can play nine holes all day long. We occasionally see people waiting at the turn for the scheduled tee time groups to tee off. I guess it's more of a seasonal problem. Fewer players in the afternoons in the summer. Tee times have always been 8 minutes apart.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Bethwill

Obviously you're playing your second nine after 1:00. The rest of the year, after June, people can play nine holes all day long. We occasionally see people waiting at the turn for the scheduled tee time groups to tee off. I guess it's more of a seasonal problem. Fewer players in the afternoons in the summer. Tee times have always been 8 minutes apart.

Please re-think that post

[mkjelenbaas]

Originally Posted by henry1224

Can someone explain the delay occurring when you make the turn from your first nine and starting the second nine. Your first nine holes goes fine. A reasonable pace, no wait between holes, to a pace where you have to wait 10 min between shots every time. You wait until the green is clear, hit your shot, chip and putt then drive up to the next tee box only to wait for the foursome ahead of you to start to tee off. I don't want to hear the most stupid answer that we are playing to fast! The fact is that they are over booking the system with 9 hole players.

I would venture a guess that it is slow play??

[RayAmb]

EASY TO EXPLAIN! Come back in a few months when 60,000 people go home.
You won’t have any issues and beautiful courses. And that’s only the half of it.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Guitarman1951

Pee break!!

Old men with enlarged prostate just added 10 minutes to their play time. Per pit stop.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Starfire

I asked 2 recently what the Stimp numbers were. They did not even know what a Stimpmeter is.

I don't know either. Never had my stimp measured. Do they take it orally, or ... you know, the other way??

😯

[tophcfa]

Played today and had the second tee time of the afternoon wave. Showed up 20 minutes early and was told to hurry up because we were late? How in the world being 20 minutes early could possibly be late I simply can’t understand? So we rushed out as instructed which got the round off to a needlessly unrelaxed start. Of course, at the turn we had to wait for the last two groups of the wave to tee off, which would not have been the case if we simply started our round as scheduled. It’s easy to hate the wave!

[Viperguy]

No problem in July

[JMintzer]

Played Bonifay yesterday in under 4 hrs... 9:20 t-time...