dryhter
Registered: 05/17/09
Posts: 7
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So here is the scenario; I had just completed a couple of long weeks at work finishing up a project for a client, and had actually finished early on Wednesday, Thursday sorted out things in the shop and got materials for the next job starting on Monday. Friday was mine a rare day to maybe sneek out and play some Golf, but at 7:30 in the morning it was raining hard and did not look promising, by 11:30 it was blue sky's.
My son ,19,swore off golf two years ago, but recently had been asking me to go play again, I thought it would be the perfect time to do a little father/son bonding, now if I can just get the two brother's - laws to go play we could have a foursome. They were Game so we agreed to me at the local course http://www.auburnspringsgolf.com/ a bit of a cow pasture, but the price is right and all of us learned to play golf there as kids, so there are lots of memories of great and not so great shots to remember. Anyways we meet out there only to find out they are having a golf outing and the course is closed. Well, now what, my BIL says let's go to the course at Punderson state park . Punderson is a challenging course and much more expensive than Auburn springs, but what the Hey, so we go.
Crowed,but we got off , expensive......2-9's with elec. cart about $40.00. Had to wait about an hour to get off and had to wait to make each shot. You know how it is , just slow play. So a twosome tees off behind us and they are hitting into to us right from the get- go. Now mind you I admit I am a hack golfer but we were not holding up play. so by the third hole I am getting just a little perturbed that these guys are hitting into us and on the third hole a par five sitting out in the fairway waiting for the green to clear a ball comes sailing in about 15 feet away from the cart, no fore or anything. My BIL gets out of the cart (he is about the best golfer I know, low 80's) and hits it back to them on the tee box the guy actually had to duct. I played much better after that and did not see them for the rest of the Game.
But I wonder did I send the right message to my son by thanking my BIL?
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moonoverparma
Registered: 07/14/09
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I know the feeling. My father and I played at Dragon Ranch in Oberlin on Sunday afternoon. We were following a father with his teenage son. They were moving along fairly well. The group in front of them was a little slow. So they were having to wait on them, which in turn slowed us down a little. The two behind us acted liked they had to wait on every tee box for us. On one par 5, I know we were 340 yards from the tee, and they still waited for us to move ahead. These guys were not that good and were in the trees most of the time. But I hate the feeling of being rushed. BTW, the course was in great shape. The fairways were a little firm, like they don't get a lot of rain out there, but the greens are nice. |
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Akoiso
Registered: 08/12/09
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I dont know if hitting the golf ball back to them was a proper thing to do. I know the feeling of having to wait and also the feeling of someone rushing you. And I know the frustrations that you guys must have had by then (having to go to another course and waiting to tee off and slow play). But I still think that the proper action would have been to talk to the guys behind you properly. This is in fact a gentlemens game.
Your son is 19 and he knows whats right and wrong. but you may have given him the wrong message that its ok to do something like that. when in fact its not. It's funny, in golf you see how some people who are somewhat jerks on the streets all of a sudden become gentlemens on the course while others act like a bunch of fools. dont mean to offend if i do.
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