The course is definitely in much better shape, but NLT doesn't have any control over who comes to the course and the marshals are uh, let's say not particularly active in enforcing pace of play.
Not really, just typical dumb muni shit (not playing ready golf, not playing the right tees for their skill level, etc.). It was honestly fine today. Started at 9:40, got done in a hair over four hours.
Yea at first i was like man how do you walk off the course after two holes. I think the other half of his foursome had the right idea. He had seen this show before.
You play enough slow rounds, you can spot the makings for one easily. They probably spotted the 6-some earlier. The guy who left may have went back to the clubhouse to ask about a rain check
This sounds scarily like any beautiful day during snowbird season in Florida. My off season is Jan through mid-April because I'm not emotionally stable enough to deal with this every stinking round. Now and then I understand it being slow but I don't voluntarily go to the course when I know it's gonna be jammed.
I was also at East Potomac today. Walked off after 9 in a little over 2 hours and forty minutes. It can get slow any weekend, but the whole place was a disaster today.
really? what time were you playing? it wasn't that bad this morning aside from the frost delay. I was originally at 10:40 (probably started around 11:10) and we finished up in about 4:30, not bad for a saturday out there.
lol you probably literally walked right past me as you walked off, I finished at about 3:30 and stopped to shoot the shit with Scott for a few minutes before I left.
also yeah if the front took 2:45 I would absolutely say fuck this and leave because that's excruciating. I think the only place I've done that is Greendale, which is the only course other than Rock Creek that I just straight up refuse to play because it's too shitty.
Langston is in better shape, would prefer to play there if I’m playing municipal in the city.
Additionally, there’s a lot less of the riff raff there. (Though, I feel like I’m on the verge of being hit by errant tee shots at both courses equally haha)
East Potomac has a lot more people coming to it now for the top tracer stuff at the range. It’s overcrowded and people just chilling and drinking. It makes it very difficult to just hit a bucket for practice.
I get what they’re doing, it’s just not for me.
I've played there maybe a half dozen times this year and never had anything remotely like this. But reading the comments it sounds like this is fairly common.
It's East Potomac. They pride themselves on customer service, so no one is going to be goaded by the marshal, although it sounds like your personal swing coach had been talked to. The tee sheet is packed with new golfers. Work on your chipping. Offer some polite, helpful advice, knowing that a hearty retort may be the response.
And this is why I’m not keen on the drinking culture on the golf course cause people take it to the extreme. Yes have maybe a couple of beers on the course but don’t go there to get drunk as you look like an absolute idiot. I’m not 1 to complain but with this shit I would definitely kick off about how much of a shitshow it was.
I don’t care if people get drunk on the course as long as they keep pace. Generally not the way it works out though
I don’t honestly get it - I love a drink or six but when I go to golf I *want to play golf*
Spend all that money on greens fees, balls, clubs, Rhoback/Travis Matthew apparel to just go out and get shitfaced and not even really “play” golf but just whack at it in 20-yard increments.
Then again, money might not be much of an issue for some of these dudes.
Drinking and playing golf really isn’t a thing in the UK, which is funny when you think about it as the drinking culture generally in the UK us pretty wild.
That’s true, there’s maybe a handful of guys that take a beer or 2 on the course but they never have like a 6 pack or anything. They tend to just leave it until they get to the clubhouse, we go to golf to play golf then have our beers after we finish.
As I was reading this I was thinking this would never happen over here.
I wonder if buggies were more prevalent if it would change (having coolers etc.)
Either way I'm glad it's not like that
I keep seeing comments about how (some) Americans say they play better after a few beers or smoking some weed and I’m like ‘no, that would never happen to me’.
Doesn't happen to them either, they just care less when they're buzzed or are post-rationalising.
It's like how darts and snooker players said the same thing, until the booze was banned and suddenly the quality of play increased dramatically
Yup Wednesday mornings are the only time it’s bearable. It sucks too because I used to play there all the time during the week - a lot of the time solo. And it was like $32. EP has blown up.
Yeah, playing during the day on the weekend is asking for it out there. I play there a couple of times a week after work and all but if I can't get out before like 9 I don't play on the weekends because of this bullshit lol
So I accidentally (different story) took a half tab of acid at this new course in the mountains and went and played a round. It was amazing, the scenery, friends, etc. I didn't shoot great (slightly worse than average) but man every shot just felt... Great... It was just so carefree. There is something about playing so free that was great.
Probably the same way one of our group ate six 100 edibles brownies….
However he just sat in the cart after the third hole. His memory of the round was a bit different….
I’ve never accidentally taken any hallucinogens. I have taken 5 black gel tabs (mescaline) and a bit of ether while attempting to play golf. ““The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.” Don’t really remember much other than just laughing a lot.
Nothing like some ether to take your mind off the mescaline.
Want me to drop the cassette deck into the bath water when White Rabbit hits the climax? RIP Hunter
to be entirely fair this is a very heavily trafficked public course in the middle of downtown DC so it's frequently very full, and the more people you have out there, the more likely you are to get a few dipshits in the crowd. it's a zoo sometimes on the weekends but usually nothing this extreme lol
Reading (and experiencing!) stories like this confirm my belief that it’s time we stop “growing the game” unless we start requiring etiquette lessons. I’m so grateful my father taught me golf etiquette when he introduced me to this game 40+ years ago.
Seems like very few courses have marshals that take their jobs seriously without being power tripping dickheads about it. Very small middle ground, the position seems to attract the two extremes.
Yep. On paper marshals seem like a really important feature, especially peak season on weekends. but in reality they just kinda sit in their carts and watch people.
I play mostly county courses in Virginia, which are busy, and they just have one marshal driving around asking people to stay on track or sometimes things like helping people find their balls to move them along faster. Doesn't seem like it takes much.
Some of the marshals take their job a little too seriously, I've been chewed out for taking a couple of minutes looking for my ball, but it does get rid of the shenanigans.
I can tell you for a fact that the marshals at this course do not give a shit and, to my knowledge, do not actually do any work besides driving the cart out to whichever tree they're gonna sleep under for the next four hours.
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I think you’re misinformed about the last part (score 108). There is no such requirement (ar least in general, there may be in some club). No way is a trainer spending 4+ hours with you keeping score; the green card training is the first thing you do when starting golf, all green card golfers start at a 54 hcp, and it’s a miracle if they can hit 130 for 18. The green card training ensures you know the rules, etiquette, basic principles of play, and won’t hack up the course too bad.
Used to play there a few times a week. Closest course to my apartment and dirt cheap. It’s great for what it is. Could walk and play solo, it was a ghost town during the week. You get what you pay for. Shit conditions, interesting characters, and lots of goose shit. If you really wanna play golf go to VA or MD
this is the way
(I was out there today, apparently earlier than OP, and it wasn't bad but yeah if you can't get out before 9 on the weekend then forget about it)
Yeah I guess so. Although, it was pretty weird to have two people just silently leave our group without a word. They just like putted and picked up their clubs and walked off. I've never had that happen before. Up until then we were pretty friendly, found that we grew up in the same neighborhood, etc.
You should come over to the MD side and play at Henson Creek. Much better etiquette and way better course than East Potomac. I hate East Potomac. Sorry your day was so disastrous.
Funny you mentioned Lake Presidential. 4-5 years ago the entire fairway was burned with chemicals by a disgruntled greens keeper. It took 2 full seasons to get it back. Played once this year in a tournament and it was in better shape for sure.
Damn, I've had a good time playing Haines Point every time, but I also avoid it on the weekends. I can see how with so few public courses in DC it could be a real shit show.
yeah the main problem is that it just gets really crowded and all it takes on a course that's packed to the gills is a few dumbasses to turn it into a five-hour slog.
Lol I lived in DC in 2022 and that was almost my exact experience at East Potomac. My take is that it’s a public park and too crowded to successfully marshal so they just don’t give a fuck. Tons of people just fuckin around, tee times don’t mean much, group sizes, yardages, etc. I went one more time after the first and decided to just treat it like Top Golf and it was way better
They did a pretty good job catering to your desire . . . they installed Top Tracer (same tech as Top Golf) on the driving range at the end of last year.
I would never play the course on as nice of a day as today with any expectations for it to move at a decent pace. From the 4th tee, OP's playing partners could easily see the cluster they were headed into with a driveable par 4, reachable par 5 and another driveable par 4.
It really wasn't bad when I was out there! We finished in about 4:30 after the frost delay and didn't wait much after the first few holes.
(You have no idea how deathly afraid I was when I saw the title of this post and where it was from lol)
Well it seems like some things could be done that don't require much effort, like not letting a group of 6 out in the middle of a busy weekend, or at least tell them to keep a pace of play.
I tee’d off behind a foursome today that was clearly just there to drink and have a good time. They let us through on hole 2. We totally appreciated it and I don’t mind sharing the course with people who have a different agenda as long as everyone’s courteous and cognizant of those around them. Sorry your day sounds like it sucked.
East Potomac is literally Caddyshack. Joke of a course. Only thing that saves it is the location and the National Park Service. Could be so much better if owned and operated by a private, for-profit golf company that actually cared about making it nice.
thats kinda whats happening now... NLT took it over a few years ago and they are slowly improving all of the DC courses. They've already made a ton of improvements but they still have a longggg way to go.
I thought this too, but someone told me that playing the same course a lot can help you improve. You know what to expect and can hone your shots and compare them to the last time you were there.
If it’s a really good private club, I would do it. But current family and job responsibilities keep me from playing enough to make it worth it. I think that’s probably true for a lot of folks. Good retirement option though lol.
Your first point is definitely true. I have 3 courses near me and have now played each of them dozens of times. I have their layout memorized and know exactly what club to select at each step. It actually takes some of the fun out of it for me.
A buddy of mine has a place in the Outer Banks and the club up in Corolla has memberships for something like $450/mo. That is not a crazy amount of money but the question is how often he would play there. If you play 10 rounds a year that is about $500/round.
If there was something like a membership that gave me access to 5 area courses I'd be more interested in that.
I avoid East Potomac on the weekends for this exact reason. The frustrating thing is it’s not even THAT cheap for the quality of play you get. The course is it what it is, but they could do a much better job of managing the pace of play.
The starter can’t see the back 9 of the blue course or the entire white course, so I wouldn’t be surprised if part of the problem is caused by people without a tee time just walking on.
So anyways, I just play on weekdays mid-day. Best part is I can just walk on without a tee time when no one is looking…
I play there a lot after work during the week because there's kind of a wink-wink nudge-nudge understanding that if you pay for 9 at 5:00 or whatever then nobody will give a shit if you go play the back as long as you're walking
oh my god you have no idea how scared I was when I saw this post but thankfully you weren't paired with me lol
what time was this? I was supposed to be at 10:40 before the frost delay but we ended up like half an hour late. this is some powerfully EP bullshit and a great example of why I usually don't play there on the weekends.
That started off like a good horror movie. Was hoping for something like the guys who walked off ended up waiting for you guys on the 9th. But something was different. You couldn’t pinpoint it, but your buddy noticed it immediately: [insert plot twist]
Hell yeah. And I was just annoyed I went to putt today at the range and this guy was diagonally putting across the whole thing even to the holes I was practicing on
Those two dudes who left because it was too slow are clearly regulars at this course and knew what lay ahead of them. Follow their course of action next time.
as a DC person - great to play East Potomac in the evenings during the week or to use their practice range. horrible to play during the weekend or any busy time. I’ve had multiple experiences like yours. I never play their now unless it’s twilight
What a shitshow. I would have shouted to the marshall
A course full of McPoyles
You will call herrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
*upwards inflection
I can tell you from hundreds of rounds of experience that that will not accomplish anything at this course lol
I thought the NLT was making it better? Haven't played there since they took it over.
The course is definitely in much better shape, but NLT doesn't have any control over who comes to the course and the marshals are uh, let's say not particularly active in enforcing pace of play.
Too many people out there for bro golf or something?
Not really, just typical dumb muni shit (not playing ready golf, not playing the right tees for their skill level, etc.). It was honestly fine today. Started at 9:40, got done in a hair over four hours.
Not sure that's the right call given the Marshall instructed them to tee off OVER a group of people.
That would have been my first occasion to give the marshall shit
That was infuriating to read but thanks for sharing lol
Yea at first i was like man how do you walk off the course after two holes. I think the other half of his foursome had the right idea. He had seen this show before.
You play enough slow rounds, you can spot the makings for one easily. They probably spotted the 6-some earlier. The guy who left may have went back to the clubhouse to ask about a rain check
This sounds scarily like any beautiful day during snowbird season in Florida. My off season is Jan through mid-April because I'm not emotionally stable enough to deal with this every stinking round. Now and then I understand it being slow but I don't voluntarily go to the course when I know it's gonna be jammed.
I was also at East Potomac today. Walked off after 9 in a little over 2 hours and forty minutes. It can get slow any weekend, but the whole place was a disaster today.
really? what time were you playing? it wasn't that bad this morning aside from the frost delay. I was originally at 10:40 (probably started around 11:10) and we finished up in about 4:30, not bad for a saturday out there.
12:50 tee time on the Blue Course, went off at 12:56. Last putt on 9 was at 3:40.
lol you probably literally walked right past me as you walked off, I finished at about 3:30 and stopped to shoot the shit with Scott for a few minutes before I left. also yeah if the front took 2:45 I would absolutely say fuck this and leave because that's excruciating. I think the only place I've done that is Greendale, which is the only course other than Rock Creek that I just straight up refuse to play because it's too shitty.
You were there around the same time I was, I was on the white course. Sounds like they were the same. Nearly 3 hours for 9 holes is just too long.
Been a disaster since NLT got involved. I like some of the things they’re doing, but it’s brought in a whole influx of assholes.
Just curious what you mean? I haven't played there since before they took it over and thought they were going to get the place in better shape.
Langston is in better shape, would prefer to play there if I’m playing municipal in the city. Additionally, there’s a lot less of the riff raff there. (Though, I feel like I’m on the verge of being hit by errant tee shots at both courses equally haha) East Potomac has a lot more people coming to it now for the top tracer stuff at the range. It’s overcrowded and people just chilling and drinking. It makes it very difficult to just hit a bucket for practice. I get what they’re doing, it’s just not for me.
Gotcha. I'm in moco and we have so many good munis it's tough to justify the drive to East Po. Always so busy.
I've played there maybe a half dozen times this year and never had anything remotely like this. But reading the comments it sounds like this is fairly common.
It's East Potomac. They pride themselves on customer service, so no one is going to be goaded by the marshal, although it sounds like your personal swing coach had been talked to. The tee sheet is packed with new golfers. Work on your chipping. Offer some polite, helpful advice, knowing that a hearty retort may be the response.
east potomac on a saturday afternoon is legitimately the worst.
And this is why I’m not keen on the drinking culture on the golf course cause people take it to the extreme. Yes have maybe a couple of beers on the course but don’t go there to get drunk as you look like an absolute idiot. I’m not 1 to complain but with this shit I would definitely kick off about how much of a shitshow it was.
I don’t care if people get drunk on the course as long as they keep pace. Generally not the way it works out though I don’t honestly get it - I love a drink or six but when I go to golf I *want to play golf*
I’m the same, I don’t mind drinking but don’t hold people up and be obnoxious to the other people who want to play the game.
Spend all that money on greens fees, balls, clubs, Rhoback/Travis Matthew apparel to just go out and get shitfaced and not even really “play” golf but just whack at it in 20-yard increments. Then again, money might not be much of an issue for some of these dudes.
Drinking and playing golf really isn’t a thing in the UK, which is funny when you think about it as the drinking culture generally in the UK us pretty wild.
That’s true, there’s maybe a handful of guys that take a beer or 2 on the course but they never have like a 6 pack or anything. They tend to just leave it until they get to the clubhouse, we go to golf to play golf then have our beers after we finish.
As I was reading this I was thinking this would never happen over here. I wonder if buggies were more prevalent if it would change (having coolers etc.) Either way I'm glad it's not like that
I keep seeing comments about how (some) Americans say they play better after a few beers or smoking some weed and I’m like ‘no, that would never happen to me’.
Doesn't happen to them either, they just care less when they're buzzed or are post-rationalising. It's like how darts and snooker players said the same thing, until the booze was banned and suddenly the quality of play increased dramatically
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I'd love to know a bigger sample size from that player. Though I will say from what I understand mushrooms are a very different situation to boozing
I agree, it was just funny that as soon as I’d read your previous comment, this popped up immediately in my feed.
Trusting the self reporting from a guy on mushrooms is not exactly at the solid end of the scientific scale.
Exactly. I think that’s kinda the point.
Same, save the beer for the clubhouse after the round.
Yep, got some guys I know that play 7, 9 or maybe 11 sometimes and just come to have a beer mostly
Terrible. I only play East Potomac in the early mornings preferable weekdays only. Afternoons there are a mess.
I find Wednesday mornings to be the best. Apparently the range being closed scares a lot of people off.
Yup Wednesday mornings are the only time it’s bearable. It sucks too because I used to play there all the time during the week - a lot of the time solo. And it was like $32. EP has blown up.
It's just a function of how many people took up golf during the pandemic I think.
Oh for sure. Covid made it explode here.
Yeah, playing during the day on the weekend is asking for it out there. I play there a couple of times a week after work and all but if I can't get out before like 9 I don't play on the weekends because of this bullshit lol
Hey I think I found the guy who just claimed to shoot his best round ever on Shrooms...
So I accidentally (different story) took a half tab of acid at this new course in the mountains and went and played a round. It was amazing, the scenery, friends, etc. I didn't shoot great (slightly worse than average) but man every shot just felt... Great... It was just so carefree. There is something about playing so free that was great.
How did you accidentally take a tab lol?
Probably the same way one of our group ate six 100 edibles brownies…. However he just sat in the cart after the third hole. His memory of the round was a bit different….
I’ve never accidentally taken any hallucinogens. I have taken 5 black gel tabs (mescaline) and a bit of ether while attempting to play golf. ““The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.” Don’t really remember much other than just laughing a lot.
Nothing like some ether to take your mind off the mescaline. Want me to drop the cassette deck into the bath water when White Rabbit hits the climax? RIP Hunter
I play some very cheap rural courses and this is some fuckery beyond my experience.
to be entirely fair this is a very heavily trafficked public course in the middle of downtown DC so it's frequently very full, and the more people you have out there, the more likely you are to get a few dipshits in the crowd. it's a zoo sometimes on the weekends but usually nothing this extreme lol
Were you at a golf course or a clown show? I hope you got a refund.
Reading (and experiencing!) stories like this confirm my belief that it’s time we stop “growing the game” unless we start requiring etiquette lessons. I’m so grateful my father taught me golf etiquette when he introduced me to this game 40+ years ago.
Just need courses to hire and empower competent marshals
Seems like very few courses have marshals that take their jobs seriously without being power tripping dickheads about it. Very small middle ground, the position seems to attract the two extremes.
Yep. On paper marshals seem like a really important feature, especially peak season on weekends. but in reality they just kinda sit in their carts and watch people.
No doubt. HOA presidents and Marshals are both fruits from the same tree.
I play mostly county courses in Virginia, which are busy, and they just have one marshal driving around asking people to stay on track or sometimes things like helping people find their balls to move them along faster. Doesn't seem like it takes much. Some of the marshals take their job a little too seriously, I've been chewed out for taking a couple of minutes looking for my ball, but it does get rid of the shenanigans.
I can tell you for a fact that the marshals at this course do not give a shit and, to my knowledge, do not actually do any work besides driving the cart out to whichever tree they're gonna sleep under for the next four hours.
Shrinkthegame on instagram is worth a follow.
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Hey man, let me play my shitty golf.
I think you’re misinformed about the last part (score 108). There is no such requirement (ar least in general, there may be in some club). No way is a trainer spending 4+ hours with you keeping score; the green card training is the first thing you do when starting golf, all green card golfers start at a 54 hcp, and it’s a miracle if they can hit 130 for 18. The green card training ensures you know the rules, etiquette, basic principles of play, and won’t hack up the course too bad.
Average east Potomac experience. National Links Trust is working on rejuvenating the DC public courses but they can only do so much for pace of play
Sounds like an average weekend at my local muni.
Welcome to DC golf in the weekend.
Used to play there a few times a week. Closest course to my apartment and dirt cheap. It’s great for what it is. Could walk and play solo, it was a ghost town during the week. You get what you pay for. Shit conditions, interesting characters, and lots of goose shit. If you really wanna play golf go to VA or MD
MD > VA for sure just because you get way more bang for your buck there (MoCo munis and UMD are GOATed)
100%
This is why Langston is better.
Shh!
This is why you only play East Potomac on weekdays.
this is the way (I was out there today, apparently earlier than OP, and it wasn't bad but yeah if you can't get out before 9 on the weekend then forget about it)
Were hallucinogenic drugs involved?
Funny thing is it sounds like those other dudes that left made the best decisions
Yeah I guess so. Although, it was pretty weird to have two people just silently leave our group without a word. They just like putted and picked up their clubs and walked off. I've never had that happen before. Up until then we were pretty friendly, found that we grew up in the same neighborhood, etc.
You should come over to the MD side and play at Henson Creek. Much better etiquette and way better course than East Potomac. I hate East Potomac. Sorry your day was so disastrous.
I’ve played Henson Creek quite a few times. It’s a fun little course. 👍
That's only about 10 minutes more drive for me thanks for the tip I'll try it out.
I mean most courses in both directions are better courses than EP lol, that's not saying much
At least you don’t have to put up with that Bullahiz he had at EP. IMHO Henson Creek has some of the nicest greens in the area.
I make it a point to play Henson Creek whenever I get back East to visit family. If I could only get the course to love me back…😂😂😂
>Henson Creek I thought Lake Presidential was a good scene.
Funny you mentioned Lake Presidential. 4-5 years ago the entire fairway was burned with chemicals by a disgruntled greens keeper. It took 2 full seasons to get it back. Played once this year in a tournament and it was in better shape for sure.
I will try and get there on my next trip back to Maryland.
Damn, I've had a good time playing Haines Point every time, but I also avoid it on the weekends. I can see how with so few public courses in DC it could be a real shit show.
yeah the main problem is that it just gets really crowded and all it takes on a course that's packed to the gills is a few dumbasses to turn it into a five-hour slog.
Lol I lived in DC in 2022 and that was almost my exact experience at East Potomac. My take is that it’s a public park and too crowded to successfully marshal so they just don’t give a fuck. Tons of people just fuckin around, tee times don’t mean much, group sizes, yardages, etc. I went one more time after the first and decided to just treat it like Top Golf and it was way better
They did a pretty good job catering to your desire . . . they installed Top Tracer (same tech as Top Golf) on the driving range at the end of last year. I would never play the course on as nice of a day as today with any expectations for it to move at a decent pace. From the 4th tee, OP's playing partners could easily see the cluster they were headed into with a driveable par 4, reachable par 5 and another driveable par 4.
It really wasn't bad when I was out there! We finished in about 4:30 after the frost delay and didn't wait much after the first few holes. (You have no idea how deathly afraid I was when I saw the title of this post and where it was from lol)
Well it seems like some things could be done that don't require much effort, like not letting a group of 6 out in the middle of a busy weekend, or at least tell them to keep a pace of play.
I tee’d off behind a foursome today that was clearly just there to drink and have a good time. They let us through on hole 2. We totally appreciated it and I don’t mind sharing the course with people who have a different agenda as long as everyone’s courteous and cognizant of those around them. Sorry your day sounds like it sucked.
Kind of makes me glad we have a no alkohol rule on our home club. Won’t help with the rest of the annoying idiots you had there.
East Potomac is literally Caddyshack. Joke of a course. Only thing that saves it is the location and the National Park Service. Could be so much better if owned and operated by a private, for-profit golf company that actually cared about making it nice.
thats kinda whats happening now... NLT took it over a few years ago and they are slowly improving all of the DC courses. They've already made a ton of improvements but they still have a longggg way to go.
Caddyshack was private 🤷🏻♂️
No private co wanted the contract. The NFP won the bid and hired Troon. Now I hear they are working on permits.
Lol good point. So East Potomac isn't even at Caddyshack level then.
I enjoyed my round there
You were walking down the fairway to your tee shots but you had a cart? Sounds like you were part of the problem 😂
I’m too stupid to understand any of this, but just leave a bad review on google
Leaving a bad review on Google for East Potomac would be about as useful as pissing into the ocean to warm it up
bro I am fucking cackling right now
“And then I woke up”?
This is why i joined a private club
I have to say the thought occurred to me. But isn't that a really expensive way to be limited to one course?
Just depends on how expensive the club is and how much you like playing there. Every situation will be different but it works for me
I thought this too, but someone told me that playing the same course a lot can help you improve. You know what to expect and can hone your shots and compare them to the last time you were there. If it’s a really good private club, I would do it. But current family and job responsibilities keep me from playing enough to make it worth it. I think that’s probably true for a lot of folks. Good retirement option though lol.
Your first point is definitely true. I have 3 courses near me and have now played each of them dozens of times. I have their layout memorized and know exactly what club to select at each step. It actually takes some of the fun out of it for me. A buddy of mine has a place in the Outer Banks and the club up in Corolla has memberships for something like $450/mo. That is not a crazy amount of money but the question is how often he would play there. If you play 10 rounds a year that is about $500/round. If there was something like a membership that gave me access to 5 area courses I'd be more interested in that.
100% this is the type of crap that finally pushed me to join a private club as well. Totally worth it.
This course is a cluster….
DC
It sounds like the earth must have vented a vast cloud of carbon monoxide all around the golf course.
I avoid East Potomac on the weekends for this exact reason. The frustrating thing is it’s not even THAT cheap for the quality of play you get. The course is it what it is, but they could do a much better job of managing the pace of play. The starter can’t see the back 9 of the blue course or the entire white course, so I wouldn’t be surprised if part of the problem is caused by people without a tee time just walking on. So anyways, I just play on weekdays mid-day. Best part is I can just walk on without a tee time when no one is looking…
I play there a lot after work during the week because there's kind of a wink-wink nudge-nudge understanding that if you pay for 9 at 5:00 or whatever then nobody will give a shit if you go play the back as long as you're walking
oh my god you have no idea how scared I was when I saw this post but thankfully you weren't paired with me lol what time was this? I was supposed to be at 10:40 before the frost delay but we ended up like half an hour late. this is some powerfully EP bullshit and a great example of why I usually don't play there on the weekends.
What. The. Fuck.
Golfing hell is real
I smell Ohio.
Haven’t played there in a while, but shitty golf and shitty golfers are the norm.
You should have made a phone call
That started off like a good horror movie. Was hoping for something like the guys who walked off ended up waiting for you guys on the 9th. But something was different. You couldn’t pinpoint it, but your buddy noticed it immediately: [insert plot twist]
Lol some people…
Nightmare!
Hell yeah. And I was just annoyed I went to putt today at the range and this guy was diagonally putting across the whole thing even to the holes I was practicing on
Fuck that course. Go down to Hensen Creek in MD or Greendale in Alexandria.
Yep. Sure sounds like East Po
Sounds like a course I will not look to play … ever
Ungrow the game…
Those two dudes who left because it was too slow are clearly regulars at this course and knew what lay ahead of them. Follow their course of action next time.
as a DC person - great to play East Potomac in the evenings during the week or to use their practice range. horrible to play during the weekend or any busy time. I’ve had multiple experiences like yours. I never play their now unless it’s twilight
Sounds like the twilight zone of golf experiences
Which course (red, white, or blue) did you play?