re: Senior Rates

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The last time I played there, the back nine was closed for some reason. It was a clusterfrick. Left after 7 holes.

Do private golf courses charge a senior rate or is it just public courses?

If only public, I don't understand the gripe. Publicly owned courses are there to help the nearby community and giving older people a little encouragement to go out and get some exercise rather than chill in the recliner eating potato chips is a benefit to the community.

Hell, if you are talking about Brec parks specifically, if you pre-pay you are already getting a cheaper rate than the senior rate.

As to the topic at hand, Senior Citizen rates. I find it ironic that the generation that controls the most wealth in this country also think they should get a discount for goods and services.

The fixed income thing is really ironic. You mean Social Security doesn't have a COLA every year? Oh, it does. So I can just go into my boss and demand a raise? Like my earnings are elastic, I can just make more whenever I want.

Especially ironic in those years when Soc Sec gets those COLA adjustments and the working public gets stuck with wage freezes due to a recession or some crap.

It's like when my Dad brags about getting a senior discount to me, which he doesn't anymore because he'll get a cross look. Look at your McMansion house, your stock portfolio, your land assets, your vacations you take, and you are seriously going to tell me you should get a discount?

Frick all that

When I first started playing(mid 30's), I sometimes would play with a group of seniors(+65) at Baton Rouge City Park. These 4 guys would play ready golf and didn't mess around. All 5 of us had to be on the tee box with a glove on, ball, and tee in your hand or they would come unglued. When one hit, the ball would be on the tee before the ball hit the ground. They thought me how to play fast and steady. The 3 guys I play with now would never come close to playing a round as fast as these guys did. Have to sit in the cart, playing on phone, no ball or tee, etc.

Who says we feel like we are entitled, you? We earned it, and social security was deducted from our pay check, every pay period. It is our money period! Are you really this stupid? Yes I think you are. I doubt, with your attitude, you'll survive long enough to earn anything.

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You think everything around you just magically appeared?

I’ve been working since I was 12. People like me BUILT everything you take for granted. Which we understood and appreciated what our parents and grandparents built and left to us.

Subsidized through Social Security? That’s OUR MONEY that we paid in for decades. It’s not a goddamn handout we haven’t paid for (taken against our will mostly)

Our club has a “young professional” under 40 membership.

Before Covid, you’d see these guys on Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Maybe getting 9 in during the week one afternoon/evening.

They were coaching various kids sports, making a living, run kids to practice or activity. Very busy.

Covid hit. Only thing to do was golf. These guys have carved out at least a full day and an afternoon during the week now to play golf. The rounds played at our club is incredible.

Home school kids that play golf, play all the time. Some are elite juniors. I’ve played with them. These kids make a 9 of 2 or 3 under look routine. They play and practice daily.

The seniors mostly play before 10 am.
In general, they are fairly quick bc most ride and they play team games where they are not plumbobbing every 4 footer for bogey. They fly around the course.

I play with people from 8 to 92. I’ve played every tee. Golf is fun. Some players are more deliberate than others. There is a scratch group that is very slow, but I played with them one day. It was fine. Good guys. 66,69,72, and my 79!

Golf takes time. Playing up people’s arse is rude. We let singles or twosomes through routinely. I’ve played through, but most of the time I just try to keep up. With the seniors, 3 hours is normal. With the guys I walk with it’s about 3.5 to 4 hours depending on crowd. Club events can take 4-5 hours depending on format and field.

I' m sure won't turn Soc Sec down. I've paid into it my entire life too. I'm 50. You think it's just some youngsters giving you crap.

Yeah, yeah, you're Medicare costs go up to offset your COLA adjustment. Cry me an F'ing river. When your Medicare premiums go up, what do you think is happening to working people's health insurance premiums? Exactly. And disproportionately higher too.

This has gotten way off topic but had to be responded to.

Played the front 9 this morning, walking, keeping ahead of a single in a cart behind me, in 1:36.

On 13, I let him play through because it's one of those holes with a long walk between tees and he motored up to me in his cart.

Back nine I played in 2:04, but the back has three holes with very long walks between tees due to the bluff breaking the course in two. Still, 46 front, 42 back.

I prefer to slow down a bit and 2 hours per 9 steady is just fine. It's not a race.

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Looks like I’ve got the get off my lawn old baws ruggled something fierce

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Now, this is an old school OT golf thread post!!! Finally, there’s some life back in this place