From our Pace of Play Captain (and Past President) Greg Marshall:
Unfortunately, after all the improvements in our Pace of Play,
we have regressed so far in 2025. The average round this year is now
almost 10 minutes longer and a lot less players are finishing in less
than 4 hours and 15 minutes. We’ve even had a few 5 hour rounds creep
back in. Not the direction I think we want to be headed.
We have already provided tips and support and you can refer back to them
in the Pace of Play section of the website. So for now… let’s just
keep it simple.
Keep up with the group in front of you!!
If you’re doing so…. you’re good. If you’re not keeping up, then refer
back to all the tips and tools we’ve provided and use them to help you
and your group catch up and stay on pace. Our membership has grown 20%
since 2022. So a group playing slowly affects a lot more players.
If we continue on this pace, we’ll probably need to look at limiting our
entries to a max number of players on a first come - first serve
basis. Not something we want to do!!!!
And finally, we need everyone to take a moment and fill in your
start/finish times for your rounds. Last week, more than ⅓ of groups
did not do so. This makes it difficult to determine our actual pace of
play. Remember…your times determine if your group is restricted to
later tee times. So give us the correct info so we don’t have to guess.
Questions? Let us know. We want your Tuesdays to be fun and have you home waaaayyy before dinner!!!
Greg
And hints from your Tee Time Scheduler:
Remember when you sign up--check to see that it went through. We had
another "signup" this week that had the potential to disappoint four
members because the signup did not go through. How to check that it went
through? Easy, just click on
which is located under Member Programs, Tee Time Registration. If you don't see your signup...you haven't signed up.
Lastly remember that if you do the Tee Time Signup, The period you
choose is first priority over the optional "ideal tee time". For
example, say our first tee time is 7:00. If you pick period 2 and 9:00,
and 80 other players have picked period 1, that's 20 tee times minimum
before we get to yours, i.e. you just signed up for 11:20 at the
EARLIEST! Please pay attention so as not to disappoint your teammates
when you get that very late tee time you didn't want.
Each week we are now having 130+ people sign up which means the last tee
time will continue to be after 12:30 until we get to June when our
split courses will take effect.
Regards,
Bruce Jones
ASGA Web Admin
