Regarding today's poll, I voted "no" AND I "serve" as a marshal.
We recently deployed carts with GPS and so can geo-fence the carts off of the greens, tee boxes, wet fairways and native areas...which dramatically decreased the number and amount of negative interactions required of the role.
But trying to keep roughly 120 people on schedule is like herding cats!
If your golfers are homogeneous, similar in playing capability and purpose and knowledge and background, no problems. On a public course you might get any mix of various types of golfers: low handicap experienced golfers; old college friends who play twice a year while drinking; newbies to real golf who've decided they are experts from whacking it as hard as possible at TopGolf; the little old walking ladies from AP {who keep up}; the four big healthy 30 YO Guys in carts that must drive the cart to the next ball and THEN begin their "PGA level routine"; and on we could go on forever.
With the new technology we can begin to identify and notify the offenders, BUT...they must be capable of comprehension and then agree to follow the mores, rules and regulations of the golf course culture's peculiar set of etiquette.
When I'm playing somewhere else, I'll expect the marshal to try to address the really slow play AND I have an understanding of the Sisyphean task we expect them to accomplish.
Thanks for the restock.
Regarding today's poll, I voted "no" AND I "serve" as a marshal.
We recently deployed carts with GPS and so can geo-fence the carts off of the greens, tee boxes, wet fairways and native areas...which dramatically decreased the number and amount of negative interactions required of the role.
But trying to keep roughly 120 people on schedule is like herding cats!
If your golfers are homogeneous, similar in playing capability and purpose and knowledge and background, no problems. On a public course you might get any mix of various types of golfers: low handicap experienced golfers; old college friends who play twice a year while drinking; newbies to real golf who've decided they are experts from whacking it as hard as possible at TopGolf; the little old walking ladies from AP {who keep up}; the four big healthy 30 YO Guys in carts that must drive the cart to the next ball and THEN begin their "PGA level routine"; and on we could go on forever.
With the new technology we can begin to identify and notify the offenders, BUT...they must be capable of comprehension and then agree to follow the mores, rules and regulations of the golf course culture's peculiar set of etiquette.
When I'm playing somewhere else, I'll expect the marshal to try to address the really slow play AND I have an understanding of the Sisyphean task we expect them to accomplish.