This "entitled" golfer just infuriated me, and should infuriate everyone else as well
 

So here we are, 7:50, after some heavy rain. Egret had been closed all day for maintenance, the pins were laid alongside the green and the tee markers were not set out. Lo and behold, along comes a single playing down 6, skips 7, then plays 8. IF the course was even open, it most likely would be cart path only, but this guy just drives his cart down the middle of the fairway, sloshing along all the way. Didn't bother to fill his divot, drove right up to the green between the putting surface and a bunker, and then skidded down the hill. God only knows how much damage he did to the course, as well as where he got his entitled attitude. Geez.

Ya shoulda shot his tires...and flattened them.








:D

Another entitled, selfish idiot.

We live in Gilchrist with our lanai overlooking the 8th green of Kildeer. Pinellas Place runs between our lanai and the course.
We had just moved in and were sitting on our lanai and watching the golfers putt on the green.
All of the sudden this ball lands in our yard. The next thing we know, this guy comes running across Pinellas with his pitching wedge and before we could say anything he hits his ball from our yard back across Pinellas toward the green!!
We were shocked! I did manage to say “Next time please don’t hit from our yard”, too stunned to think of much else to say!
He yells over his shoulder, “just giving your grass a trim!”
We were both dumbstruck! He was not only rude but so arrogant and entitled. Obviously knows nothing of golf etiquette, or etiquette in general.

Why didn't you confront the idiot?

Need to have a camera at the ready to take photo's of these idiots.

I can think of a number of reasons...why that would/could have been a dumb thing to do. :oops:

Especially since the person wasn't on his (or his neighbors) property.

GE could have called Community Watch though...and maybe they could have caught the jerk.

I would have yelled "fore" a number of times at the top of my lungs and watched what happened. Fore! - Scottish Golf History

Definitely a complete entitled, ignorant, a hole! If the course is closed means you stay off it. What a shame.

If possible, I would have picked up the ball and thrown it as far as I could in the opposite direction.

a new reason all golf carts should have some kind of ID, be it a tag or decal

Should have cut loose the old "Bag of Snakes" on him so he would have had a memory or maybe no memory of the day! Priceless.

I think you should own a nice golf cart first to see how you like them and the golf carting experience here. It is super fun and interesting but unfortunately you cannot legislate kindness and respect and morality.

This incident is particularly appalling because golf has always earned the reputation of it's players being polite, and rule abiding.

I find all of society is becoming more "I will do whatever I want". I don't like it.

He also doesn't know anything about the rules of golf seeing as how your yard is obviously out of bounds.

Wondering how many people never played golf before moving to TV--"free" anything attracts the wannabe's

Many Villagers have played all of their lives and many are just now beginning to play. For me, I have played golf for 47 years and paid much more for it than here.

I think the biggest "draw" here is the beautifully maintained "feel" to this very large place. I sometimes think as I drive along in the golf cart that the Astors and The Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers didn't live as well.

We have not acres, but miles of flowers and trimmed bushes and green lawns and whimsical squares and people who have lived long enough to appreciate the joy of leisure and the opportunities to explore and enjoy what they didn't have time for before. I have NEVER once run into anyone who in answer to the question, "What made you choose The Villages?" said
THE FREE STUFF.

We are mostly hard working, law abiding people who have good taste and have carefully planned and diligently saved and sacrificed to live well in these later years. WE ARE NOT POOR in spirit or in character or in fact. We are careful and independent and fiercly proud and one of our collective horrors would to be to accept "free stuff" as a matter of daily living.

Beautifully put, Gracie!

The good thing is there are only a few of these type of people. Most golfers are great people and are just out having a good time.

My neighbor works at the golf courses and thinks golfers are rudest, most demamding and selfish people in TV.

I doubt it.

First World problems

Its true, look @ they way they take over clubs and subject the dining room to their loud obnoxious conversations, try to have low level conversation @ a bar after noon time

Neither do I.

When we visited some friends in TV, my husband was taken out to their "free" executive golf course to play golf. He was surprised to see that it was only par 3 and was completely unchallenging. The grass was in poor condition. I guess he was spoiled after having played golf in Pebble Beach, CA. But these "free" courses are great for those wanting or needing to practice everyday before attempting the championship courses.

There are three levels of challenge in all of the executive courses. Some are quite easy and some are very difficult from the back tees. I would say that many who live here have played some remarkable courses in this country and abroad.

As for loud golfers, anyone who drinks becomes louder. I suppose that doesn't happen with the folks who only drink top shelf.

All? A few? One?

No, it doesn't happen to people who have manners and know how to drink, unlike out of town traveling salesmen types

Where do you live?

I think it is the “long” pour that causes the loud noise.:wine:

The executive courses are also ranked 1 to 4 levels. I believe Silver Lake, Hilltop and Chula Vista have two tees.

Great Self Control on your part.

I am still mulling over the idea of buying one of those paintball guns for those who feel they can breech the rules with impunity. Not only golfers, but golf cart drivers. :-)

But then, I would then fall into that category, wouldn’t I?

But maybe I should take Mickelson’s lead and evaluate the pros and cons before I took some action. Would I get probation? Would LE just roll their eyes at the old, senile person and laugh it off? Would I get sued? If so, would my umbrella policy cover it?

So many questions ...

If your husband were an experienced golfer, he would have know that 'executive' courses are always short with mostly par 3 holes


You mean our exec courses are not the same quality as Pebble Beach? What a surprise.

Oh the stories I could tell while living on the course. Guys playing in the dark with their headlights pointed to the green. Golfers driving all over my yard looking for a ball. Another guy telling me to f... o.. when I told him to stop beating my shrubs while he was looking for his ball. (Unfortunately I went after him, but the coward drove away). I was able to id him and found out he actually worked on one of the courses. No more. Daily Sun published the golf etiquette rules on Feb. 4, 2013. They need to be published again. Never play or retrieve a ball from the yard of a resident. Report any damage of private property. Playing is strictly prohibited beyond the property line of a resident, even if not designated by white stakes.
90% of our golfers are great and respectful and I am more than happy to let them get their ball (unless it's a ProV1) The trees have finally grown so I get very few balls any more. Love the view! ps last time I played Evans Prairie, I had to call up and tell them the fairways were so wet they should ban carts. We were sinking. Where is the course superintendent?

Hmmmm, I play "championship" courses regularly and have played some tour courses but not Pebble. I love to play the executive courses, and usually try to play the level three and four tracks. I find the execs in TV to be mostly well maintained and designed and in some cases quite challenging (tell your hubby to try Pelican). I don't look at them as "practice" for the championship courses, but rather a unique experience on their own. I usually play in ninety minutes or less and enjoy not always having to slog through a five hour round. Everybody has to find their own comfort zone - mine is rather sizeable.

We do not live on a golf course here but have lived on Country Club courses in Texas and Georgia. Oh, the stories I could tell. It’s just not here in TV.

I think it’s become necessary due to the population.

Unreal!

I bet Pebble Beach wasn't free.