Re: Things that annoy you about your fellow golfers
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When people all stand by one guy hitting the ball when they could be walking to their own ball. Or when people refuse to hit out of order. Basically when people don't play ready golf.
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I have no problem with this. It's a lot better than the alternative. Last week I played with a guy who was constantly walking out in front of me towards his ball as I was going to hit. It was annoying, dangerous, and just slowed things down because I always had to wait to make sure he wasn't in any danger before hitting.
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I think you're both right, it just involves common sense. I think the first post was about people who were roughly lateral to each other, in which case they should get into position to hit.
That said, I play with someone semi-regularly who is ~20 handicapper and he does something that bothers me way more than slow players do: he repeatedly plays out of position when others are preparing to hit. It distracts to the point where at least 1-2X/round he'll hit right in my backswing or as I'm about to hit and I have to back off. While I can understand as a bit of a hack he's trying to keep up his pace of play, it wouldn't hurt if he looked around to see if someone was preparing to hit before doing so, specifically if he isn't out.
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