Hot Weather Slows Everyone Down,
Here’s 15 Ways to Play Faster Without Losing Your Cool.
- Ditch your head covers! Taking them on and off is a serious time suck.
- Mixed tee groups, players from the same tees should ride together.
- After you tee off, move back towards your cart, you can watch from there.
- Play ready golf! If it’s safe to hit, HIT IT.
- First player to a Par 3 gets the yardage, and informs the others.
- First player that hits on a Par 3, stands by with the sand to fill everyone’s divots.
- Waiting? Take as many practice stokes as you want. Your turn to hit, you get one!
- Hit it O.B., need a provisional ball? Always have a spare ball handy.
- Balls on opposite sides of the fairway? Rider should be dropped off and driver proceeds to his ball. Once rider hits, he should start walking towards the green, until driver picks him up.
- Two players in the same bunker? The last to hit rakes. The first to escape, marks and lines up their putt.
- At the Green, the carts and any clubs carried to the green should be in the direction of the next tee.
- If you have to walk back towards the tee, you are wasting time and holding up the group behind.
- First person to putt out grabs the flagstick and waits to put it back. As others holed out, grab your clubs and move towards the cart.
- Jokes and stories are best told while waiting. Once the fairway/green is open, hold the rest of the story until later.
- Medical flags on carts are used by guys with trouble walking. They should NEVER be parked in front of the green, and please observe the 15 foot rule.