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Originally Posted by Golfbum Rick on most privately owned public courses up here the Rangers are powerless. They drive out and give the slow players a warning and that is the end of it. Rarely will anyone be kicked off a public course here due to slow play. It's all about the dollars. Owners feel if they kick slow players off then those players will not return resulting in lost revenue.
However if owners get the pace of the play sped up at their courses they might gain revenue. As golfers find out they can get around a course in under 4 hours because Management actually enforces the Slow Play Rule then they might spend their money at that course.
The private course I work at has no Ranger and rarely does it take over 4 hours to play a round there. The members police themselves and their speed of play. |
I posted some similar comments in your other slow play thread. I'm not a regular on any private course, so I don't really know that much. The one private course that I do play a few times a summer isn't crowded enough for slow play to be a problem. On that course it's easy to let a faster group play through. On the public course however, it is just too busy, and with so may groups, the odds are that at least a couple foursomes will be slower, and that start to slow the entire course down. And that is all it takes on a crowded course. It becomes very difficult to pick the pace back up again once the accordion effect starts.