In its effort to address the problem of slow play at Thurgoona the Committee is asking all members to please adhere to the following guidelines to assist in keeping to a\u00a0pace of 4 hours and 10 minutes.\u00a0 Note that these guidelines\u00a0apply to stroke play (including stableford, par etc) and match play formats.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 Be ready to tee off at your designated tee time.\u00a0 This means that you should arrive at the tee as the group in front of you is hitting off so that you can be ready to hit when you are called to the tee (not start making your way to the tee when you are called).<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 Shorter hitters should hit off first regardless of “the honour”.\u00a0 There is no point waiting for the longer hitters to hit off if they have the honour.\u00a0 Just following this simple procedure can save 15 minutes per round.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 Be realistic about how far you hit the ball (simply over-estimating how far you hit the ball can easily add 10 minutes to your round).<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 Your position in the field is immediately following the group in front, not just in front of the group behind.\u00a0 Should you be falling behind the group in front please play Ready Golf until you catch up.\u00a0 Ready Golf includes (a) playing when you are ready to do so regardless of who is away\u00a0(provided\u00a0it is safe to do so), (b) when finished putting out, a couple of players should progress immediately to the next tee to hit off, (c) continuous putting to save time marking, lifting and replacing the ball, (d) picking up in formats where you are “out of the hole”, (e) moving quickly between shots and (f) being ready to play when it’s your turn.<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0 Should you not be able to keep up to the groups in front and your are being pressed from behind, let the group behind you play through.\u00a0 Do so in a manner that does not slow the rest of the field down (ie you can tee off the hole and allow the group behind to also tee off, walk up the hole together so that your group is in a position to stay within a shot of\u00a0the group which is playing through).\u00a0 Please make an effort to ensure that allowing a group to play through does not have a “domino effect” on the rest of the field.<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0 Simple habits such as placing your bag or cart on the side of the green nearest the next tee, watching closely to your playing partner’s shots to assist if they hit an errant shot, playing a provisional ball if you’re unsure that you will find your original etc can all add up to keep round times as low as possible.<\/p>\n
In an effort to provide awareness to golfers, the Committee will be analysing the Pace Reports for competition rounds and highlighting groups who don’t finish within 10 minutes of the group in front of them and take longer\u00a0than 4 hours and 10 minutes (this is after deducting\u00a0a 10 minute grace period to scan your card after\u00a0putting out on your last hole).\u00a0\u00a0Once satisfied that these limits are reasonable, the Committee\u00a0will consider making these reports public.\u00a0 The membership will be notified\u00a0of the timeline of this initiative.\u00a0Players are asked for their cooperation by scanning their cards prior to putting their clubs in their car, loading up their carts etc. This will give us the most reasonable picture of our pace of play.<\/p>\n
Thank you to all members for following these guidelines and reducing the impact of slow play at Thurgoona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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