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Nelly Korda Slams Slow Play, Shares Fixes for Faster Golf

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Say No To Slow Play

Join us in our campaign to minimise slow play in golf. Say no to slow play by your actions and awareness out on course. This scourge of golf courses everywhere needs to be met head on. What can we all do about ending tardy play and its miserable impact upon the enjoyment of our golf? We can each remain vigilant in our duty to keep the game moving along. Firstly, keep up with the group in front and if you fall behind make an effort to catch up. It is our responsibility, as players and as members of a four ball, to maintain the pace of play despite delays looking for lost balls. If you fall behind speed up and catch up pronto. Things we can do to maintain a good pace of play: - Always be ready to play your shot when it is your turn. - Stay aware of your group’s position within the field. - Remember that you only have 3 minutes to find a lost ball. - Play ready golf. - Pick up your ball if you have wiped the hole. - Leave the green in a timely fashion and don’t mark your scorecard there. - Avoid protracted pre-shot routines where possible.

Photo by Jopwell on Pexels.com Teach em young to pay attention to the pace of play Golf is a great game and there are a couple of hundred of us competing in competitions at clubs on busy days. To optimise the enjoyment for all, we need to keep things moving along in terms of pace of play. If you are a golfer who likes to spend some time over the ball prior to striking it, then, compensate by making an effort to get to your ball as quickly as you can. Never dawdle on the golf course.

Slow Play? No Way!

According to studies, into the pace of play at club competition level the single most influential factor determining how long a round of golf takes is the flow of traffic between four ball groupings. Obviously, like traffic delays everywhere, a slow group in front holds everyone up. If that group fails to notice their tardy rate of play and doesn’t take steps to speed up, then all the groups behind experience the effects of slow play on their round. One extra minute of uneccessary delay in a leading four ball can result in an extra 30 minutes in the duration of the round for those groups following behind.

We all need to say no to slow play! Your Actions & Awareness Can Speed Up Play Join us in ending overly long rounds of golf by making every effort in your round and four ball to play promptly and expediently. Be nimble and swift in your navigation of the course. Expedite your golfing journey with fleet footed assuredness where possible. Alacrity and brisk play equals enjoyment for all. Join us in this campaign to SAY NO TO SLOW PLAY by keeping your group’s pace of play foremost in mind, throughout, and we will all ensure the demise of the dreaded nearly 5 hour round at medal events. Really 4 hours max should be plenty long enough for the average golfer to complete a competitive round of golf. Your actions can make a difference next time you tee it up! ©GolfDom https://youtube.com/shorts/do6-DfIfTvg Read the full article

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Slow Play Is The Thing Killing Golf

Do you know what is the greatest threat to golf in the current era? LIV Golf? No. Rampant real estate prices in our cities? No. Slow play is the thing killing golf and threatening its bright future. There has been a boom in the number of people playing golf and joining golf clubs in the wake of the COVID pandemic. However, if we are to hang onto these members and social players we must address the elephant in the room. Slow play out on the course. If rounds of golf continue to take up to 5 hours and longer people will not stick with this pursuit in the long run. Modern men and women do not have the time to devote to a game which takes half a day plus travelling to and fro to the golf course.

What Causes Slow Play?

 According to studies undertaken by experts in America, where the average round there takes 4 hours and 17 minutes, it is the amount of traffic on-course causing slow play. The average time for the ‘dewsweepers’ or first four ball out of the blocks is 3 hours 46 minutes. Thus, some 30 minutes gets added on via the movements of the following traffic. Course length and slope rating has minimal effect upon pace of play according to the study by Lucius Ricco. PH.D, who analysed 40, 460 rounds of golf. Reducing the number of four ball groupings by extending the intervals between groups was the most effective means of reducing the time taken to play a round of golf. Moving from a 10 minute interval to an 11 minute interval reduced the average time to play a round of golf by 14 minutes. The reduction in numbers and revenue can be alleviated in summer by extending the hours of play to go later into the day and the faster rate of play supports this.

Photo by Jopwell on Pexels.com Slow Play Saves to Utilise The course set up can, also, impact upon the rate of play. Moving the tees back on par 5s and reachable par 4s can prevent long hitters waiting on shots and holding the field up. Similarly, bringing the tees forward on par 3s can ensure more golfers hit the green and this produces a faster rate of play with less holdups due to players looking for balls in the rough. Making bushland that lines fairways red staked lateral hazards will, also, speed play up by allowing golfers to identify where their ball crossed into the penalty area and dropping within two club lengths with a one shot penalty incurred. This avoids having to go back to the tee or from where the shot was initially made and saves time. Remember that you only have 3 minutes to search for a lost golf ball. Talking to many golfers who regularly play competitive clubland golf their number one piece of advice for golfers is, to keep up with the group in front and don’t fall behind.

Hazlehead , 9 hole golf course by Lizzie is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0 If you find your four ball is lagging take steps to increase your pace of play to regain your position. We must all take basic responsibility for the pace of play of our grouping. There will always be golfers of different speeds in terms of their pace of play but we must all be equally mindful of slow play killing the enjoyment of the game. Slow play sucks the life out of golf for the majority of golfers. Personally, I point the finger at those golfers who are not ready to pull the trigger when it is their turn to play. In club golf, there is an etiquette of play, where the golfer furthest from the hole is deemed to have the honour. However, if you are waiting for that golfer within your four ball grouping ensure that you are ready to go immediately upon his or her shot being completed. Have everything within your control ready in terms of alignment and pre-shot routine. Too often I see golfers not ready for their turn and taking too long to get on with it. These incremental delays all add up and are very annoying to witness again and again.

Photo by Jopwell on Pexels.com Let’s all get on-board to give slow play the heave ho out of golf. Five hour rounds are inexcusable in my book and we should all do more to ensure they do not happen. A good game is a quick game. Keep your pace of movement brisk throughout the day, especially getting to your ball between shots. Learn to execute your pre-shot routine with alacrity. Be ready when your turn comes. Slow play is the thing killing golf and together we can stem the scourge. Always be mindful of your speed of play. Infirmity and old age are no excuse for endemic slow play. If we all do our best we can end slow play from the game of golf. ©GolfDom Read the full article

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Big passing of the guard today #slowplay #vs #bunkermafia #golfmemes #golfmeme @brysondechambeau @preedgolf (at Hero World Challenge) https://www.instagram.com/p/B50Abz9HTF9/?igshid=1t9vt6k8euj64

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Congrats @patrickcantlay on your @memorialgolf 🏆 but this is the reason I can’t be a fan. #SlowPlay Via : @coreykasif @clubhouselegends https://www.instagram.com/p/ByS0qfdhMfM/?igshid=iq1q87du3jzh

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To honor @jbholmespga #SlowPlay at the @genesisopen , a throwback post about @kevinna915 from @skratchtv 😂🤣😂🤣 https://www.instagram.com/p/BuJmgEiASqe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=s2qrsi081q1u

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Do you hate slow players in front of you? Here is one way to deal with them. 😂😂 *Not recomended* 👑 @golfballed #golfkings #firecrackers #slowplay https://www.instagram.com/p/BsqNpKylNt8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qy3klkla9pyl

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The Last Five Years

So I’ve grown up.  Mostly figuratively in this scenario.  I was an adult before as well; I can’t deprive my former self of that.  Though I can admit to how much I had yet to experience after those posts.

I’m looking back at what I’ve written and all I can think is how much I modeled myself after Ted Mosby, but more so than that, how much my writing had predicted that character’s trajectory in the later seasons.  A bit of a fun thought experiment I guess.  I was living what was being written by people in Hollywood.  Maybe not truly, but what’s true is differs from person to person.

I should start this post by saying that I am happy.  I should follow up that statement by saying the these past five years I have scarcely been happy.  This isn’t said out of some ‘coming of age’ intent or some ‘key to happiness’ secret because I don’t think I know altogether that much more than I did in my last post.  I can only say that I had some life experiences, that I learned from them, but it’d be fair to argue that I’d forgotten or let go of things I had once known then.

Since this blog isn’t meant to be explicitly about me, but rather about my peri-spiritual journey to find the love of my life - my soulmate- I’ll attempt to keep to remain true to this theme.  What’s wrong with buying into a fun little thought experiment?  With letting one’s imagination rule out for a while?

So.  Hey Sweetie.

I don’t know that I feel you in my heart still.  That’s a lot to claim, and more to proclaim from the heights of this internet mountain peak we call Tumblr.  What I feel confident in saying is that I know a little more about you than I once did.  I’ve grown in my view of love.  I’ve come to see it as a companionship more so than what I could only ever before characterize by calling “that feeling.”  

I recognize infatuation’s role in its development, but no longer expect that head over heels sentiment to persist indefinitely.  

More so than just this, I’ve come to see all the ways I chased poor relationships.  I believed so heartily that love was about finding this one person that meets and exceeds your expectations, that you need only point to or at and amaze the world with.  That one person that blew your standards out of the water.

In the past I rejected the ones that were, in truth, the exact type of person that I belonged with.  The exact type of person that I know now that I will end up with.  I’ll spare the actual names, but I can say that I’ve dated exactly three girls that put me first.  Well, not truly.  They put themselves first- as they should- but it was never in their nature to turn a cold shoulder to my emotions, to neglect my needs, to falter between whether or not I was “good enough.”

I’ve been with too many girls that had dated me with exactly that approach.  And they may end up happily with someone that can tolerate that, or that wants that too, or whathaveyou.  I know now that I cannot.

The girls that will win my heart over now, in my ripe twenty five years of age, are the ones that see me as someone they want to enable to succeed, as someone they can bolster emotionally, as someone they will help, and someone they can share their existence with.  And they will expect me to return this in kind.

This is what I consider a loving relationship now.  And this is the kind of goodness that I foresee carrying me forward with this ‘girl of my dreams.’  It won’t be a relationship littered with doubt or toxicity because it’ll be built between two people that genuinely see their other as another similarly minded human being that they believe in.

These are just some thoughts from the treasure cove I like to call my mind.  I doubt I’ll post again, but for all of my followers that enjoy the slow play I hope this both fulfills that and creates in you an anticipation for the Next Five Years.