Fix your d#$% ball marks on the greens.
 

If you are good or lucky enough to hit the green with your approach shot, and make a ball mark, please fix that D&%# hole you made!! They put a lot of effort in maintaining these courses. Please do your part. It's not that hard! Bend over with a tool and fix the hole. Mangrove course today - I fixed 10-15 mark on every green - outrageous! And the greens were aeriated, to boot. Respect the courses please.

It’s not right, but its par for the course on the executives : (

I fix other ball marks also. Good practice for if I ever make one.

Problem is some don’t have a clue on how to fix a ball mark, some don’t realize what a ball mark is.
My goal is fix 10 ball marks while waiting for others to putt. I have time for more, but like to read my putt

At least the blame can’t fall on the snow birds this time of the year!

Very true

Can you interrupt what D&%# means

That would get you an unexpected vacation

Same with the championship courses. I understand sometimes you can't find a mark so fix another, always some available.

Ball Marks
 

It won't kill you to bend over and fix a mark. Or rake your footprints in the trap.

If you’re talking Mangrove, and you played in the morning, there’s a guy who goes out on Mangrove after the started leaves, and hits 15 or 20 balls onto every green, and doesn’t fix ANY ball marks .
I’ve been behind him a few times.
Said something to him once, but he ignored me.

We have some golfers here that practice good overall golf etiquette but generally most do not. We also have a growing number of players who feel it's not their job, it's the ambassadors job and aren't bashful to tell you as such. Personally I think the only way to solve the issue is to start assigning points to anyone observed not fixing ball marks, take bunkers, drive their carts where they shouldn't. It's simple, if you don't respect our courses, you don't get tee times.
Or I hear from people I golf with " I can't bend over to fix my ball mark because I have a bad back" yet they will be the first ones to dive on the ground if I drop a $10 bill.
I know I'm way out there so thanks for listening.

Could they implement a "vacation" system, like here? Ambassadors give points when they catch someone leaving their mark (not even looking for it) and when they get enough points they get to do something else for a month.

That may be true for a small group, but I think the primary issue is laziness. Or perhaps entitlement. These are the same clowns who never rake a bunker. Hit their tee shots 30 yards, and then hack their way to the green like they're in a jungle with a machete, never grabbing a sand bottle. Shoot, they are probably the same people that leave their shopping carts out in the middle of parking lots!

Assigning these folks points would not keep them off the courses. Points don't apply to walk-ons, or those sharpshooting a tee time up to 3 days in advance. How about posting their picture at starter shacks? I'm OK with publicly shaming golf slobs.

They also toss their take out soda cups wherever they happen to be.

I hear another season of Squid Game is coming out, maybe we could have start shooters along the course and they just shoot them... survivors a the end of the year get free amenity fees for life... (that was a sarcastic joke, please don't shoot those people...)

Yeah, and turn your blinker on when making a turn and have your dog stop peeing in my bleep bleep yard - oh the horror!

:loco::loco:

And, we should design the cars so if you turn on the turn signal and don't turn, they car turns anyway...

I’ve railed on this for over 7 years; don’t you know we have a class of people here that are the privileged entitled and it is beyond them to fix divots, repair ball marks and rake the traps. Lazy a$$ people are what they actually are.

It is not because "some" players don't know.

It is they don't care/not my job/ignorant/inconsiderate and it is not relative to snow birds.

No change in my 18 years here!
:sigh:

Or just attach those points to their ID so they can't make a tee time or walk up to the starter. They could still sneak on after hours, but I would simply make it a no trespassing zone after hours unless you have advance permission.

I guess the word is “entitled” - even at the most clubs, the members take pride in their course, and fix ball marks, etc.
It’s people who don’t care, who don’t take pride in what they have access to.

Probably after late hours practice if out early mornings? Seen few hit several approach shots After hours while walking in evenings. I highly doubt their fixing all the divots?

Golfers are entitled…..:wave:

Never post a challenge. Now they will think of ways to blame them.

My guess is that they simply don't know better. Many of the people I get paired with, are new. They are just learning and need to be taught. These are usually the same people that need to know you don't walk on someone's line, or walk around the hole to get your ball out. In some cases you have to call them out on the issue. In others it's a learning opportunity.

As a practice, I'll fix my ball mark and as many others as I can find while I have time. In some cases I make a point to exaggerate things and in others I say something. In most cases, they just didn't know.

If there too lazy (not talking about true handicapped, but the special golfers only handicap) to walk 20 yards to greens thinks their going to bend over fix divots?

Please explain the difference between snowbirds golfers and full time villages cause I can’t…:confused:

After that what is the difference between males and females. Asking for a friend.:undecided:

We live in a community of older folks. I see on the courses many that cannot bend over to get the ball out of the cup. They have a ball retriever at the end of their putter. How in the world can one expect them to fix anything on the green?
On a side note, one poster here said something about aerated greens and people not fixing divots. After aeration, fixing a divot will do more damage to a green. Try it sometime and you will see.

My friend said "Balls!"

[QUOTE=NoMo50;2110601]That may be true for a small group, but I think the primary issue is laziness. Or perhaps entitlement. These are the same clowns who never rake a bunker. Hit their tee shots 30 yards, and then hack their way to the green like they're in a jungle with a machete, never grabbing a sand bottle. Shoot, they are probably the same people that leave their shopping carts out in the middle of

New golfer here; I’m embarrassed to admit, but I have made all of the mistakes you’ve mentioned. My golfing companions who are teaching me, have addressed and shown me how to correct when they’ve caught me making these errors.
But otherwise 🤷🏼*♀️. I’m still learning.
Thank you for the info. I want to be a good golfer who shows proper etiquette.
Ps….I Always put my shopping cart away. 😉

How do they manage to tee up a ball but can't fix a ball mark?

lazy? Or just dont care

You are such a good person to fix that many ball marks - thanks for telling us how to behave.

But you must respect the “Privileged” that play golf here. They pay their fee and others should fix things they screw up , repair their divots and rake the sand traps. Most are too lazy and can’t bend over , have you seen how the ruin the edge of the cups with their putters retrieving their ball.

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MICHAEL G-Can you spell the word interpret?

Well I agree, but you’re wasting your breath. It’s not that tough & some golfers & I mean good golfers don’t appreciate how some people appreciate what TV do for us. These same none fixing dimple damagers would scream bloody murder if TV would start closing some of the golf courses, so if they want to play fix your damn ball marks, or go back to where you came from.

And, unless you have a RA tag, keep your carts off the par 3 fairways.

Yep. I see that far too often.

It's not just Florida, unrepaired ball marks everywhere. I always try to fix my own and one or two others near my ball.