Originally Posted by Fourputt

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.