Pace of Play

Making the Experience Enjoyable for All

The stated pace of play for Lakeview Golf Club is approximately 4 hours (4:00).  Lakeview staff has the authority to serve as the course Marshall and monitor the pace of play. Any group that is holding up play may be asked to pick up their balls and move to the next tee. Use the groups ahead of and behind you to gauge your pace. If the group that teed off directly in front of you is pulling away - putting a full hole's distance between them and your group - you need to speed up. If there's no one in front of you holding you up, but you are holding up those behind you, either speed up or allow the trailing group to play through, if possible.

Ways to Improve Pace of Play

1. Choose the set of tees most appropriate to your skill level. New golfers or high handicap players should use the forward tees.
2. Minimize practice swings. Do not take mulligans or practice shots when others are waiting to start play or are waiting for play to proceed.
3. Carry tees, ball marks, ball repair tool and a spare ball in your pocket so you don't have to return to your golf bag to retrieve them when needed.
4. If you are the cart driver, drop off your passenger at his or her ball before proceeding to your own ball.
5. If you are the passenger, take more than one club to your shot and proceed down the fairway after your shot. Do not wait for the driver to pick you up.
6. If it’s "Cart Paths Only", both driver and passenger should take more than one club to their next shot.
7. While walking (or riding) to your ball, use the travel time to begin thinking over your next shot— the yardage, which club you’ll use, and so on. Begin preparing before you get to your ball.
8. Eliminate the need to go back to where you hit your last shot. When in doubt hit a provisional ball.
9. Limit your search for a lost ball to three minutes.
10. If your next shot is with your pitching wedge or sand wedge, automatically take your putter with you.
11. Leave bags and golf carts on line to the next tee (to the side or behind the green) so that when you finish putting, you will be moving away from the field of play and en route to the next tee.
12. Whenever possible, begin lining up your putt as soon as you reach the green; study your line of putt while others are putting. Continue putting until your ball is holed unless you will be standing on another golfer’s line.
13. If you are the first in the cup, pick up the flagstick so that you can replace it after the last person has putted out.
14. Mark scorecards on the next tee box, not on or next to the putting green. Likewise, don't stand there fussing with your putter or other clubs. Get in the cart, drive to the next tee, and then put away your clubs.
    
15. Always keep up with the group ahead of you. Faster players must be allowed to play through if there is an open hole ahead. However, a single player or twosomes have no priority to play through threesomes and foursomes. If the course is busy you must maintain pace of play or find non-busy times to play.
16. Play "ready golf," which simply means that order of play is based on who's ready, not who's away, on every shot.