Using Humor to Get a Little Respect for Faster Play

NY Times Blog ^ | 06/12/2013 | BILL PENNINGTON

[Kid Shelleen]

--snip-- In an attempt to shake golf out of its slow-playing doldrums, those who help run golf will unveil a new campaign Wednesday celebrating “Caddyshack,” the raucous 1980 movie headlined by the working-class comedianRodney Dangerfield that lampooned golf’s stuffy country club reputation.

More than four million golfers have given up golf in recent years, and the primary culprit, researchers say, is the tedious pace of play. Desperate for a solution, golf’s leaders, on the eve of this week’s national championship, have turned to “Caddyshack,” resurrecting one of Dangerfield’s zingers in the film a

[who_would_fardels_bear]

There was a tournament a few years back in Norco, CA where the organizers provided hospitality tents throughout the course where the "ball girls" were extremely hospitable.

Unfortunately the cops shut them down.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Spoil sports.

[Average Al]

Many courses in the south near the ocean have alligators and snakes in the roughs. That tends to discourage ball hunting..........