The Etiquetteist: Is It Frowned Upon To Blow Past Your Sluggish Playing Partners?
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2020-02-19
By JOHN SENS, Golf.com
Time flies. Unless you’re playing with a sluggish group of golfers, in which case it slows to an agonizing crawl. Question is, does etiquette require you to suffer in the company of your snail-like partners? Or does it allow you to leave your group behind?
Ask around, and you’ll get different views.
Slow play is, itself, a breach of etiquette (not to mention a violation of the Rules of Golf and a slap in the face of most club policies). Its perpetrators are either selfish or clueless, and very often a combo of the two.
That doesn’t mean you should be rude to them.
But you’re also not obliged to stick with them.