AggieDruggist89 said:

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Well, during the labor day weekend, I visited my old stomping grounds Hot Springs Village, AR where one of my best buddies retired. He was a plant engineer in logging industry for almost 4 decades, so pretty handy guy.

His Yamaha gas cart does 45 mph. And his playing buddies on his street all have these high performance carts.

Well mofo... they pride themselves in playing 18 in 2.5 hours.. or even less.

It's a ****ing nascar on the golf course. ****ing balls flying everywhere and another mofo already putting out when others are hitting approaches from 100 yards. Ok, it's ready golf, I get it.

But *****. let me at least go through my preshot routine or attempt to read the breaks on the green!

So how do you answer "how did you play today?"

2 hours and 27 minutes.. shoud've been 2:15. But had to look for Randy's ball.

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Looking for a golf ball for 12 minutes? Sounds like we've got a violation. I'm surprised they would even look for 2 minutes.

My home course as a kid was San Saba Muni. Middle of nowhere, or pretty close to it. Cowboys and farmers playing in jeans mixed in with the local pecan oligarchs (if you live in that county, you know what I mean). It's actually a surprisingly solid little course, especially the old 9, which runs through hundreds of very old, huge, and ball-hungry pecan trees in a bend of the San Saba river.

All that is to set up a story of the local covey of lady golfers. This was in the mid-late 1980s, and they were all well over 60, so I'm sure few of them are still around. They would play in anything from a 6-some to an 8-some. For them, a 100-yard drive was a booming shot, but each had her own cart, and 'ready golf' doesn't begin to describe their approach to the game. Closer to polo than to golf. I don't think those carts would stop for more than 15 seconds at a time. They'd pull up to the ball, grab a club, get over the ball and hit it about 50-70 yards, then race forward to do it again.

Once, on a Sunday, play was unusually slow. We were waiting on a group ahead of us on the old #5, and they were waiting on a group in front of them, etc., etc. The ladies roll up to us after finishing #4, one of them announces "we're playing through ya'll" and proceeded to hit without waiting for so much as nod of acknowledgment on our part. All 8 of them teed off, then played through the group in front of us, and then through the group in front of them, etc. I don't think it ever took them as long 2 hours to play a round.