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I do work at a golf course as a ranger/starter. I am retired and it gives me an opportunity to work three days a week at a club that has three nine hole courses that have all been redone, one each year for the last three years. The course architecture was redone by Andrew Green one of the hottest architects out there right now. We run double tee times from the three courses and rotate the courses each week. The courses are beautiful and when it is not “season” meaning December thru April the staff gets to play the courses for no charge and gets reciprocity with about 20-25 other private courses in the area with little or no cost to us. Not a bad gig here in Southeast Florida.

I work as a ranger at a semi private course and tee times are 9 minutes apart. We monitor pace of play all the time and our GPS system shows what each carts pace is. If we see a group falling behind pace more than five minutes we approach them and let them know they need to pick up their pace some and to keep the group going n front of them in their sight, if we have to go out and tell them again , after giving them some time to get back on pace, we tell them if they open a gap of more than one hole we will make them skip a hole to get back on pace. That is usually enough to get them moving. The right pace of play is to hit your tee shots when the group in front of you has clearly moved out of range of your tee shots, having everyone ready with their choice of club is important so you don’t have people waiting until it is their turn to hit to pull a club. If people are hitting into you one time it is possibly and accident but if it happens twice I would call the course and have a ranger come and talk to them, if their isn’t a ranger(some courses do not have them) then then I would make them aware that their is no place to go, you have kept the group in front of you in sight. Be calm when you tell them the problem because argument s can escalate fast. Ha ha