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A significant truth which has been accepted universally is the importance of time and the role it plays in making a life enjoyable. If you lose track of time everything is one way or another will unravel. It is never so true as on the golf course.
You're out playing a fun round of golf moving along without a hiccup and then you hit the log jam of golfers and the clubhouse management is oblivious to it all. At this point in time you say i am never coming back to this golf course again. They do nothing to control the pace of play!
Golf is a game build on a player own commitment to the rules of the game. It is the only game which a golfer will call a penalty on herself. Golf needs a game clock it truly is that simple. When you look at virtually so many sports you see the game is truly controlled by a game clock.
Hockey, football, basketball, etc... Everybody has accepted the game clock as part of the game. It is time that more golf clubs also implement golf clocks on their courses. There are many golf courses that have implemented golf course clocks and have improved play.
Every group is going to have a bad hole now and then the key is for them to make up the lost time and frankly without clocks to tell them they are on time or behind time they do not have a clue. When a timeless group has a second bad hole they have really screwed up the pace of play of the whole course.
Most successful clubs have placed a few clocks on each nines and all the players have to do is remember their tee time because all of the time piece on the course are offset to the course's pace of play. Very simple and highly effective!
Even a group on the course with no one within 4 holes of them will keep pace with the game clock because you just don't look at a clock espically an analogue clock without taking sometime of action. Just try it look at a clock and it will propel you to take action.
Golf slow play is not enjoyable for anyone involved. The players who time is being wasted because they have to wait on every single golf shot or the management that is losing revenue because players are not returning to the club or quit half way through their round.
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