I'm from a small town in Missouri. My junior year of cross country our team t-shirt slogan was "cross country: finally a practical use for a golf course."
This entire thread is hilarious. A 6th or 7th place runner on a team could’ve ran him over. he was asking for it: golfers are an entitled bunch. I was at a 16” softball beer league game this summer and a guy was practicing his wedge shots in left field during the game because that’s when he always does it.
Sort of funny posting that to a message board where a good number of people here run every day (or close to it) and are still bad at it.
Most posters here probably could not break 6:00 in the mile.
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If you think that is something William and Mary xc invite in the mid 80's ran at Eastern̈ States which was a mental institute. Let's just say grown men crossing the finish line in diapers was something I won't forget. Thankfully no phones or social media to show that back then.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say a bunch of runners interrupted a guy's golf round? It's a golf course and he was there first. If he were to start hitting golf balls onto the track or a running trail, then the runners would have a point.
Private course that we have to assume closed & took entry fees from the teams who participated. That's the usual process. They were likely closed to the public (or members? it says country club but some are public). They should have removed him. Completely reckless on his part. Go golf somewhere else. You can't see that things look different today? Smdh.
Golfing is all about bragging. Telling your golfing buddies what your handicap is. Telling your coworkers you can compete or beat the bosses at work. Telling them you play a round every week. Telling them there was a running race on the course and you didn't care, still got your 18 in unphased.
Guy is a jerk. I have worked in the golf industry for 10 years and we have rented out our golf course for XC meets once. The track association of said town would pay us to rent the course for the day, with the expectation that no one else will be in on it, either the course screwed up and the guys tee time was too late and the meet happened or the guy did it on purpose. Either way it’s ridiculous that the guy couldn’t at least just let the runners by. This was a state meet correct? So these kids trained for months to do this and a man playing a round for fun couldn’t just play another hole or let the kids by. It’s also annoying since the meet has most likely been on the courses schedule for months and it would be the same thing as having a golf outing that day where they couldn’t let the public on the course because it was closed.
Golfing is all about bragging. Telling your golfing buddies what your handicap is. Telling your coworkers you can compete or beat the bosses at work. Telling them you play a round every week. Telling them there was a running race on the course and you didn't care, still got your 18 in unphased.
Guy is a jerk. I have worked in the golf industry for 10 years and we have rented out our golf course for XC meets once. The track association of said town would pay us to rent the course for the day, with the expectation that no one else will be in on it, either the course screwed up and the guys tee time was too late and the meet happened or the guy did it on purpose. Either way it’s ridiculous that the guy couldn’t at least just let the runners by. This was a state meet correct? So these kids trained for months to do this and a man playing a round for fun couldn’t just play another hole or let the kids by. It’s also annoying since the meet has most likely been on the courses schedule for months and it would be the same thing as having a golf outing that day where they couldn’t let the public on the course because it was closed.
No, it was not a state meet. It is a small town invitational with a handful of small teams.