What Does Ready Golf Mean? (Video) - by Pete Styles
What Does Ready Golf Mean? (Video) - by Pete Styles

What is Ready Golf? Now Ready Golf is a term that’s now being used to describe a game of golf where you actually hit the ball as soon as you are ready, it as simple as that. We spend an awful lot of time on the golf course hanging around and waiting, just to observe the rules or more importantly, the etiquette of the game of golf. And actually, this is now costing as a fair amount of players that actually can’t afford the four, five even six hours to play around the golf. People are turning their back on the game of golf and not playing, because the game is talking too long.

And maybe, but not solely to blame, but maybe the tall pros are somewhat to blame on this. Because they’ve got their caddies, they’ve got the decisions to make, they are trying to play for their mortgage. I appreciate there’s a lot of pressure on those guys, they are spending a lot of time making decisions. Therefore the other player is spending a lot of time waiting for them to make the decisions. And now I’ve seen two balls taking five and a half hours to get around the golf course, which is frankly ridiculous particularly when they’re only here maybe 72 times or less. So Ready Golf is now being found in a lot of golf clubs, where they’re actually sort of tearing up the rule book or the etiquette book and saying, “Just go and play golf, get around – not in a race. It’s not a race to get round, but get round as fast as you feel comfortable doing.” And when you get to the next hole, if Bob’s over there and marking the scorecard and Frank’s having a drink and you made a nine on the last hole and it’s not your turn to tee off, just get on there and tee off. First one to the tee can go, second one to the tee you go second. When you get up near your second shot, even if your ball is five yards ahead of the previous ball, you can go ahead and take your ball and play if you are a faster walker, or if you’ve made the decision correctly. If somebody else is a bit I mean are in between clubs or they are looking for their ball, then maybe they will take a little bit longer. It doesn’t always have to be the furthest person away from the hole to play next. As long as you’re not being dangerous and running 50 yards ahead to whack your ball onto the green first, it might be five-10 yards ahead that would be fine, that would be safe. And then again, up and around the green and on the putting green, we are always waiting for the furthest person away to get to the green. But if he’s miles away, and you’re up on the green you may as well take the flag out, you may as well hold your putt, pick the ball up and mark the scorecard, hold the flag for the other guys while they walk up onto the green, and then they are ready to play. So Ready Golf is playing when it’s safe and when you are not rushing, but you don’t have to play in the same order all the time. You don’t have play using normal etiquette of furthest person away plays, or having the honors system on the next tee. You get there first, and you’re ready to play and you are not rushing and it’s safe to do so, get ready and go and play golf. And hopefully, that will bring the time it takes too around the golf down a little bit, encourage a lot more players to play at the weekends when the golf course isn’t busy, and actually bring more players back to the game of golf, because they are playing Ready Golf. 2014-05-08

What is Ready Golf? Now Ready Golf is a term that’s now being used to describe a game of golf where you actually hit the ball as soon as you are ready, it as simple as that. We spend an awful lot of time on the golf course hanging around and waiting, just to observe the rules or more importantly, the etiquette of the game of golf. And actually, this is now costing as a fair amount of players that actually can’t afford the four, five even six hours to play around the golf. People are turning their back on the game of golf and not playing, because the game is talking too long.

And maybe, but not solely to blame, but maybe the tall pros are somewhat to blame on this. Because they’ve got their caddies, they’ve got the decisions to make, they are trying to play for their mortgage. I appreciate there’s a lot of pressure on those guys, they are spending a lot of time making decisions. Therefore the other player is spending a lot of time waiting for them to make the decisions.

And now I’ve seen two balls taking five and a half hours to get around the golf course, which is frankly ridiculous particularly when they’re only here maybe 72 times or less. So Ready Golf is now being found in a lot of golf clubs, where they’re actually sort of tearing up the rule book or the etiquette book and saying, “Just go and play golf, get around – not in a race. It’s not a race to get round, but get round as fast as you feel comfortable doing.” And when you get to the next hole, if Bob’s over there and marking the scorecard and Frank’s having a drink and you made a nine on the last hole and it’s not your turn to tee off, just get on there and tee off.

First one to the tee can go, second one to the tee you go second. When you get up near your second shot, even if your ball is five yards ahead of the previous ball, you can go ahead and take your ball and play if you are a faster walker, or if you’ve made the decision correctly. If somebody else is a bit I mean are in between clubs or they are looking for their ball, then maybe they will take a little bit longer. It doesn’t always have to be the furthest person away from the hole to play next. As long as you’re not being dangerous and running 50 yards ahead to whack your ball onto the green first, it might be five-10 yards ahead that would be fine, that would be safe.

And then again, up and around the green and on the putting green, we are always waiting for the furthest person away to get to the green. But if he’s miles away, and you’re up on the green you may as well take the flag out, you may as well hold your putt, pick the ball up and mark the scorecard, hold the flag for the other guys while they walk up onto the green, and then they are ready to play.

So Ready Golf is playing when it’s safe and when you are not rushing, but you don’t have to play in the same order all the time. You don’t have play using normal etiquette of furthest person away plays, or having the honors system on the next tee. You get there first, and you’re ready to play and you are not rushing and it’s safe to do so, get ready and go and play golf. And hopefully, that will bring the time it takes too around the golf down a little bit, encourage a lot more players to play at the weekends when the golf course isn’t busy, and actually bring more players back to the game of golf, because they are playing Ready Golf.