[Fourputt]

First to JP, the pace of play standard for the course is 4:25 (that's 2:10 per 9 holes and a 5 minute allowance at the turn for necessities). That is a very liberal requirement. It's not difficult for four golfers to walk the course in right around 4 hours (I've done it this year at age 61 and 40 pounds overweight), so that extra 20 - 25 minutes is just gravy. I really don't care about the excuses I always hear that we had 2 lost balls on #11 and Joe hacked up #14 and took 10 strokes. That doesn't matter. When you fall behind, you should make every effort to catch back up again. You don't just continue to plod along with a hole open in front of you.

To Sinsation: We don't book any different on weekends than we do on weekdays. Our tee sheet is full every day of the week from 6:30 AM until after 12 noon, then gets busy again about 3:00 PM. We don't try to "squeeze" extra groups in. In fact we are specifically NOT allowed to do so. If the early groups don't maintain a good pace, then the course starts to bog down, and once the problem settles in, it's nearly impossible to fix. Our rangers have a time matrix sheet that tells them where every group is supposed to be at any given time, depending on their initial tee time. The reason the the head pro is getting involved is because some of the rangers have gotten lazy, and if they let it get out of hand early, you've had it for that day. I feel that they have to be the most aggressive early in the day, and make sure that those first few groups are keeping up with the times, not just keeping the group in front of them in sight. As C-tech said, once the patrons know that this is not only expected, but that steps will be taken to ensure compliance, the problem will mostly go away.