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Judge Smails [Visitor] in response to: Note to Myrtle Beach starters: Enough already with the pre-round lectures

Judge Smails [Visitor] — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:30:05 +0000

Wyomick,

I agree with the spirit of what you say, but it's not quite as simple as you paint it. There's the East -- then there's the East. If you drive into upstate NY, you will find bucolic areas with beautiful, relatively empty courses. And, needless to say, in Maine you can sometimes have a course to yourself.

The problem, of course, is the huge metropolitan areas; get far enough away from those and the East is much like the rest of the country.

This is why I drive into upstate NY to play. I travel about 70 miles to a certain course; it's often not that crowded and gives you a lot for your money.

Ron Mon [Member] in response to: Note to Myrtle Beach starters: Enough already with the pre-round lectures

Ron Mon [Member] — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:12:55 +0000

Well, PW and LB are two of the higher-end courses, correct? I believe that the snootier the owner, the pricklier the staff is required to be. I found those terms in Webster's, so don't question my vernacular. My suggestion would be to grab a few more dozen free tees, snag some free mark repair tools, and steal a tee marker and a flag when the starter isn't looking.

Wyomick [Visitor] in response to: Note to Myrtle Beach starters: Enough already with the pre-round lectures

Wyomick [Visitor] — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:16:47 +0000

The whole of the east coast golf industry has that
starter's attitude; like Friday at 5 PM on an LA Freeway. That's why I gave up on golf out there; too many people crammed into too few spaces. It's west of the Mississippi only, for my golf.
Caio.

Kiel Christianson [Visitor] in response to: Note to Myrtle Beach starters: Enough already with the pre-round lectures

Kiel Christianson [Visitor] — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:01:33 +0000

Spot on. The starter (well, head pro, really) at
Crail in Scotland, in response to our request for tips,
to keep our putts low to the ground. Classic! Just
imagine the humorless, self-important drivel that
those Myrtle Beach cranks would have offered.

As he was obviously a master of the completely obvious, you should have asked that old fart at Long Bay what
the dimply white ball was for.

Brandon Tucker [Member] in response to: Note to Myrtle Beach starters: Enough already with the pre-round lectures

Brandon Tucker [Member] — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:09:10 +0000

I'm not a fan of when you are called off the driving range or putting green because they say you're on the tee, so you drive over, and the other group is still on the tee box. I usually need every precious minute before my round.