[JosephEL]

JB, I checked after you made the announcement. It is 5 hours from me. Still thinking about it though..

Its worth it...

[Maydayvar]

I have a good friend that I will play with from time to time. I would play with him more often but he just started playing last year(nothing wrong with that) and he thinks he should be able to play the shots I play and when he does not he often mumbles "I am not sure what happen, I never do that". When he wanted to start playing he asked if I could teach him and I told him I am not a teacher so go take lessons before he starting hitting the course. He took one! When he is having a bad day I try and encourage him with his game and always tell him to go and get more lessons. When he is having that bad day, to him, and it keeps going down hill he gets mad and it gets hard to play with him and add to the fact that he is a slow player also it makes it hard to play with him. Three times he just quit after 9 holes. I will continue to play with him as he is my neighbor, we attend church together and our kids went to school together. But I limit the times I will play with him which is a shame because he is a friend. Its just hard to focus on my game when I play with him. Now when I get paired with someone who has a bad attitude I can usually can just focus on my game as I know I will most likely never see them again and it just does not matter to me what they are doing.

[duribass]

I made a promise to myself when I started playing this notoriously frustrating game - that every time I go out I will do the best I can, celebrate the good shots and try to learn from the bad... I've done a lot of learning in my 1st year

It's very hard to play with a grump... I try to tune it out, especially if it gets personal.

[vNQmO2BF]

I play with the same 3-5 people every time I go out. I am a really competitive person and I want to play my best every time I go out. I'm not going to lie, when I hit a bad shot it bothers me. I keep it to myself and don't shout curse words or throw clubs. With that being said, when someone in my group starts with that stuff it generally brings me down. I am out to beat my previous score and to have fun. If I want stress on the weekend, I'll go to work!

[ChebuRAtoR]

I just keep complimenting their better shots and being positive as possible with people. I try to give them confidence by telling them they are better than they believe they are. It seems to work well. If you get them hitting fairways you can play right along and keep a good pace. I played with two guys a couple weeks ago and it was their first time on a real golf course. The had been playing at a local par 3 for about a year and a half and decided to try a real course. We had a great time and one of the guys broke 100 and we played in just under 4 hours. You could see their confidence build throughout the round. I hope they continue to play on the big courses.

The only people that bother/mystify me are the guys who play once a week, never practice, are always in the woods, or just can't hit the ball and are angry about it. If you are terrible go work on your game until you are better. Spend your money on the range instead of on balls you hit into the trees, or go take some lessons. I played with a couple of them this weekend and I felt like telling them they weren't good enough golfers to be angry about their game. A good player to me is a guy who may be having a not so good day but has enough sense to back off and change his strategy for the day. A guy who would rather hit 3 iron off the tee and be in the fairway than keep pounding the ball into the woods with his driver. A guy who doesn't mess with what he brought to the course and just does what he can to score well.

[lakraboob]

I'm really really curious as to how fast JB actually plays. I consider myself a quick player but it sounds to me like he runs around the green looking at his putts and then goes lol

[lidya-sggf]

JB, I checked after you made the announcement. It is 5 hours from me. Still thinking about it though..

Its a lot longer than 5 hours from us and we are going...hehe

I'm really really curious as to how fast JB actually plays. I consider myself a quick player but it sounds to me like he runs around the green looking at his putts and then goes lol

Fast. I dont run around the greens, because I dont look at putts too often from multiple angles. I figure all of that out on the way to my ball. I take no practice swings and when its my turn to swing, I am ready and hit. I play 18 holes by myself in about an hour and in my regular twosome in 1:45. Its not fast or running for us, just our pace that we play.

[masterboyz]

I play with people that have bad attitudes all the time. One guy in particular, just always pissed off it drives me nuts.

I usually have a good attitude, some days I am in a deep bad funk and get upset sometimes more so then others but I try not to vocalise it.

~Joseph~
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[boanuatiguali]

I just tune them out. Only make comment for their good shots, never point out bad ones...You will just about run into all kinds of people. Just like game of golf. Some days you play well, some days you won't.

Don't let those negative people bother you. Use that to make yourself a better player.

[wmhardware]

Awe man, if you told me it was a cast 4 iron, I was there with you till the end.

I never knew if I hit a good shot until I looked up with cast clubs (DCI's). Just give me a 30 year old set of Staffs or Hogans (with good shafts) and I'll be happy.