[Derrida]

Never a starter or ranger, but I have played with and around several complete jerks. I'm only 13, so sometimes people think that I can't conduct myself on the course or my friends can't. Anyway, we had an older couple playing behind us and they were playing very, very quickly ( they were riding and we were walking). So we decided, about halfway through 9, to let them play through. They had caught up to us on the previous hole. We start motioning them to play through, and they literally stop playing altogether and just sit back behind us. We thought, 'okay maybe they're being nice and not rushing us. Just to be safe, we decided to let them through on 6, which was a short par 3. When they drive up to the green tees ( 5 yards in front of the whites which we were playing, the man driving the cart starts screaming at us. He told us we were playing unreasonably slow and were a disgrace to the game. Then he told us we both sucked at golf ( my friend had a bad hole on 5, had a double) and that he was going to report us to the pro shop and start a petition to not let junior folders out on the course. My friend looked like he was on the verge of tears, and then the guy yells at him 'AND IT'S SUCKY PLAYERS LIKE YOU THAT MAKE MY GOLF GAME A LIVING HELL!'. He then proceeds to duff 3 balls straight into the lake. After they stormed off, I took out a 5 wood and put the ball 7 feet from the hole and dropped in the putt for birdie. Now stop me if I'm wrong, but we are members at a private golf course, we pay just as much as the next guy, and we are good people. We shouldn't be yelled at like that because of our age. I guarantee you of there was another adult present that situation would have turned out a lot differently.