10 minutes between tee times helps, but how many starters hold groups to their booked tee time, instead sending groups off as soon as the group ahead is out of range?
Marshals are afraid to push groups that are slow because management is afraid those people won't come back, when it is really the golfers they want to come back that are behind the slow players, that get fed up with the slow play, and never step foot on the course again. Management is encouraging the slow players with this policy, just the opposite of what they should be doing.
Also, it all starts with your earliest groups out. We are able to book the first tee time every weekday. The longest it has taken our foursome to complete the round is 2:45 (faster when there are just two or three of us). We don't rush, we just play ready golf and don't do the things that add unnecessary time to the round. We will often be teeing off on 7 to see a twosome behind us just reaching the 5th tee! You get three minutes to look for a lost ball, and I see groups spending much longer than that. One lost ball per foursome over 18 holes and delays begin to add up as the day goes on, and if those first groups are playing at a four-hour pace, the rounds become much longer.
Marshals are afraid to push groups that are slow because management is afraid those people won't come back, when it is really the golfers they want to come back that are behind the slow players, that get fed up with the slow play, and never step foot on the course again. Management is encouraging the slow players with this policy, just the opposite of what they should be doing.
Also, it all starts with your earliest groups out. We are able to book the first tee time every weekday. The longest it has taken our foursome to complete the round is 2:45 (faster when there are just two or three of us). We don't rush, we just play ready golf and don't do the things that add unnecessary time to the round. We will often be teeing off on 7 to see a twosome behind us just reaching the 5th tee! You get three minutes to look for a lost ball, and I see groups spending much longer than that. One lost ball per foursome over 18 holes and delays begin to add up as the day goes on, and if those first groups are playing at a four-hour pace, the rounds become much longer.