When one book's in and get's a receipt. He would get a course card. Surely it is not beyond keeping them together untill play starts. Problem/moan solved why blame the marshal for ones shortcomings.

Cut the rough, if you want to speed up play. Don't tuck the flags in corners over bunkers or water. I know just hit the center of the green.

I love working in the golf business, so much that it really wasn't like a job because I looked forward to being there everyday. The unfriendly employee needs to be replaced without question, the only reason they are there is for the free privileges extended by the golf course. Management must remove these employees as soon as possible to keep the repeat customer and gain more customers. The repeat customer is the only way a business survives especially the highly competitive golf industry.

Have a little higher cut of grass around some of the bunkers and and water hazards to save some of the rollers from going in the hazard or OB. Golfers will be happier and pace of play will improve!

Poor course design, specifically fairway traps built where trees block a chance to reach the green or with lips so high there is no chance to reach the green.

Good stuff, I also wish that golfnow would alert folks to aeration as well 

Why pay for a half cart for my wife to enjoy riding along during a vacation, i.e. In Hawaii, especially when playing as a single? 

#6 is a big peeve of mine at a certain local course.The club never seeds the rough.What grass is there, they let grown to 5, 6 inches.It looks good from a distance,, but really is nothing more than hardpan with green grass

Oh oh Jason, writing to deadline again? I guess the idea of a top 10 pet peeves felt like a good idea at the time. But where to begin? While many of your peeves are legit, some others are weak to say the least.I think it would be pretty tough today to find a course operator who doesn't care about their product or policy and procedures. While running a golf facility may seem like a simple venture and getting it right an easy thing to do, it is getting it right every day, in every weather event, with many different customer types and skill levels. I have been doing this for 30 years and each day is unto its own, with its own reasons and rationals. 

#10 - You need a stand-alone range not adjoining any regular golf holes? So, the cost of providing the extra acreage for this dream scenario is paid for by who? (Or is it whom?) Unlimited range balls to warm up with? Don't make me hit off of mats! Perhaps I can dump a large basket on your front lawn and stripe some 3 irons into the near distance? Its not the cost of the range balls but the combination of balls and turf that costs so much. The extra problem for the course operator is, the customer who doesn't want to warm up with a small basket and complains to the poor under trained sales person (#3) that he should get some kind of discount because he is not hitting any balls. 

#9 - Any course built more than 10 years ago has inadvertently become somewhat obsolete due to the new ball and equipment. Well designed courses that offered an array of second shots with different clubs have become pitch and putts. Par 5's are par 4's and par 4's can be reached with a driver and a wedge. The other problem is, if a course isn't seen to be "Tour tough", they are passed over by Joe average golfer looking for that special experience. So... the rough is grown up and the pin placements are devilish with greens stimping at 13! Moving the tee's up brings another complaint from that other golfer, (you know who I mean). Expectation is the problem. What happened to "playing the ball where it lies and the course as you find it", or "it plays the same for everyone".

#8 - Again with the pin placements? Large greens should be less of a problem. Small greens are more problematic. Less space to cut cups (no none wants an old cutting within 10 feet of the hole) and slopes are magnified when the greens speed up. If rain is in the forecast we don't want to cut a hole in a low collection spot. Foot traffic damage can dictate where a cup cannot go and we concede to the situation and a hole is cut on a slippery slope. (Sh)It happens!    Again the average golfer 3 putts a couple of times a round on the best of days so sometimes it is a skill problem not a cup placement problem. We had a PGA Tour event for 7 years and some greens had a quarter to a third of the green designated as unusable due to "severe" slopes. On small greens, public play sometimes dictates those difficult slopes are forced into use. Also, Sunday pins are a misnomer. Even on the PGA Tour, pins are rotated as close to evenly as possible, given the above. The Sunday pins are chosen not for 18 tougher than average placements but more for best conditions and maybe the last three holes are chosen to "define a winner ' so the TV broadcast can finish on time. And (to flog the horse) Tour officials have free reign to push pins to the perimeter of greens in the week to ten days before an event to maximize opportunities for emergency placements for the contests four days, something not possible on a public track. #7 - "I can live with divots on the tee boxes and other sins". Would you rather have mats? Yes some courses have small tee boxes and they get chopped up quickly but there is the option to go two club lengths deep on the tee to find a spot. In the thousands of rounds I have played I have seen this to be a legit problem maybe twice and only on the least expensive courses.

 The bottom line is, a perfectly conditioned golf course would cost substantially more than, 1) the competition and 2) the price you would be willing to pay to play twice a week. Think about it, if your perfect condition public course suddenly had a turf problem on three greens and part of those greens were roped off, what should the discount be and are you so disappointed that you decide to play elsewhere for the next month?

Expectation is the problem! We can not attain the level of expectation from the local ice palace if we expect Madison square garden.  

The worst condition course I ever played was Pebble Beach ($350.00 in 1991) and they did not tell me several fairways had no turf (at all!) as they were preparing for the 1992 US Open and the fog limited visibility to 100 yards. 

I loved it!