[JPsuff]

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With all due respect to both examples, the one crucial element that is missing is a definitive example of an "acceptable" time. If a committee or other governing body "certainly cannot accept 5 hour rounds as the norm", that begs the question: "What is the norm"?

Four and one half hours?

Four hours?

Less?

And who decides this?

Who times it?


Last Saturday, I had a 9:40AM tee time. I left my house at about 8:15AM and I arrived at the course exactly one hour early at 8:40AM. I warmed up on the range, practiced some putting and was called to the tee at or very near my designated start time.

We finished our round at approximately 2:30PM (give or take ten minutes). I refilled a water bottle and then went to the range to work on some things. I spent about a half-hour or so at the range, went back to the car and put my clubs in, changed out of my spikes and drove off, arriving back home at approximately 3:55PM.


All-in-all, it was a perfectly ordinary Saturday.


-JP