Double Mocha Man

I just looked up the history of the name.

My apologies. Betting I'm not the first one to do that. Sincerely, Belingham

Is that the Joe West who was born in Ashville, NC?

I'm challenging that call and throwing a red flag onto the field...

My staff does my shopping for me.

I think when your ball moves you should fake a massive migraine and fall to the ground in agony.

Hey! No calling penalties on players on my team!

Ah, the last refuge of the guy who has no counter argument. You could change my mind, but your reasoning isn't spot on. See you on the practice putting green... 😁

While we're on the topic of TV golf I have to say I do love the professional golfers, upon missing a 5 - 10 foot putt, who raise their right or left arm to question why the putt missed to that side. Ask your caddie about his/her read. Ask yourself about your mis-read. Or ask yourself why your stroke wasn't all that good.

I'm putting here. Where's your situational awareness? 😄

This is pretty riveting stuff, isn't it?

I had one of those once...

In watching golf, baseball or football on TV please don't tell me what I just saw on the screen. Give me some new/unique information, give me some color.

Now you are just being silly. (I expect the seat next to me on the plane to be filled) What were your thoughts on the guy on the range who wanted to practice in an isolated way and the other guy wanted to befriend him?

You are being egocentric. Crazy to you, not to others. I have let homeless people sit with me at my restaurant table and I've even bought them lunch. So it's not like I want my privacy all the time, just when I am trying to focus on something very specific. Like the tempo of my putting stroke.

About a dozen years ago my course swapped out the little flags in each of the holes on the practice putting green. They had the numbers 1 - 18 on them. I think they were trying to dissuade the miniature golf course guy, as well.

I just think if you want to putt alone, hit balls at the range alone or eat your chicken at a picnic table alone you should be able to do it. I guess my main beef (or chicken in this case) is when people on a crowded practice putting green are trying to get better at sinking three footers why does there have to be a guy who sees it as a miniature golf course, and whether you like it or not, he needs to putt to the hole you are occupying. I think it goes back to situational awareness that someone else mentioned. And that guy has none.

So then you would sit at that picnic table in a park in a common area and join the family there and eat some of their chicken??? Got it.

That's a tough one. He probably read a self-help book about making friends that suggested he go to places like a driving range to find people with a commonality. I do hope he took a hint. You could always plant some IEDs near the end of the range, sort of a "No Bother Me Zone".

I understand you wanting your privacy on the range, I do too when I am practicing. You want to focus entirely on what you are doing which is exactly why I don't invite any of my friends to join in on a practice session. Maybe your area was the only place in the shade or it had the best grass, without all the prior divots?

Some idiot justifying his job in IT did a complete makeover of my banking app. What used to take five quick steps to pay a bill now takes 14!

It usually happens when about 5 of the 12 practice holes are open. Maybe the guy just wants to strike up a friendship? And he or they are putting up to other occupied holes, as well. I don't think it is the seasoned golfers, it's the ones that see the practice green as a miniature golf course. We need some windmills and small bridges.

And the magnificence of ivy...

Haha. The area where I practice is farthest from the pro shop and farthest from the first and 10th tee, it is essentially off the beaten path. So wandering up there is a conscious decision for another golfer treating the practice green as a mini golf course and having to play each of the holes. Legally, of course, the area where I practice is not really mine so others can intrude but it just seems kinda smarmy. Would you go to a park with picnic tables and if there are other tables available would you still sit down with the folks eating their fried chicken?

Sorry about your experience. There are people out there who simply do not understand the concept of pace of play... never will. It's like the rest of us not understanding quantum mechanics.