Slow Play

Folks, I golf so I know just how it is. You want to do a deal so you call your Greens Keeper with whom you're on a first name basis and set up a Tee Time, around 10ish so your (prospective) partner has enough time to stop at the office and pick up his weekday clubs and answer his email without being rushed before you hit the links.

Because it looks silly to golf in a three piece you stop at your Clubhouse locker for your knickers and lucky argyles from the pro shop at St. Andrews and your trendy Cabby Cap, then you head out to the first Tee where your target fellow golfer, Carts, and Caddies are waiting, but not too long. You didn't have to stop for stogies because the Refreshment Cart with its Frosties and Humidor normally catches up by the 2nd Hole and you don't want to get too sloppy too early.

You and your buddy share a Cart because you're talking business- "Did you hear the one about the Rabbi, the Priest, the Minister, and the Hooker?" "Oh, that's funny. I reminds me of this one with a Buddhist Monk." "Hah, hah, hah. Right Action. I'll bet it was 'Right Action.'"

Everything is going swimmingly and you're totally on track to hit the 19th Hole for a late lunch and paperwork signing with time for a Sauna and a Shower when you get to the Tee Box and there's a Foursome in front of you.

Disaster!

You might have to wait a full five minutes and you can't tell any of your really good jokes because they're Ladies, and Black, and might hear you.

So you do the next best thing and call the Cops.

Golf club apologizes for calling cops on black women members
Associated Press
4/24/18

Sandra Thompson and four friends met up Saturday to play a round of golf at the Grandview Golf Club, where they are all members, she told the newspaper.

At the second hole, a white man whose son co-owns the club came up to them twice to complain that they weren't keeping up with the pace of play. Thompson, an attorney and the head of the York chapter of the NAACP, told the newspaper it was untrue.

On the same hole, another member of the group, Sandra Harrison, said she spoke with a Grandview golf pro, who said they were fine since they were keeping pace with the group ahead of them.

Despite that, the women skipped the third hole to avoid any other issues, she said.
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After the ninth hole, where it is customary to take a break before continuing on the next nine holes, three of the group decided to leave because they were so shaken up by the earlier treatment, the women told the paper.

Thompson said the man from the second hole, identified as former York County Commissioner Steve Chronister, his son, club co-owner Jordan Chronister and several other white, male employees approached the remaining two women and said they took too long of a break and they needed to leave the course.

The women argued they took an appropriate break, and that the men behind them were still on their beer break and not ready to tee off, as seen in a video Thompson gave the newspaper. The women were told that the police had been called, and so they waited.

Northern York County Regional Police arrived, conducted interviews and left without charging anyone.
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Jordan Chronister's wife and co-owner of the club, JJ Chronister, said Sunday she called the women personally to apologize.

"We sincerely apologize to the women for making them feel uncomfortable here at Grandview, that is not our intention in any way," she told the newspaper. "We want all of our members to feel valued and that they can come out here and have a great time, play golf and enjoy the experience."

She said she hopes to meet with them to discuss how the club can use what happened as a learning experience and do better in the future.

Thompson said she's not sure a meeting is what needs to happen.

"There needs to be something more substantial to understand they don't treat people in this manner," she said.

Uh, yeah. Like that.

If (and there's no reason you should because you meet more assholes on a Golf Course than almost anyplace else in the world) you know anything about Golf you know that all you have to do if you're being held up is politely ask to "play through" at the next convenient opportunity, usually in the Tee Box but sometimes in the Fairway or on the Green and it's like so not a big deal.

Nor is patiently waiting while someone crawls off into the woods looking for a "lost ball" when in fact they're puking their guts out because of too much sun and too many beers and cigars. I generally try to be out of earshot lest I experience sympathy heaves.

(Of course it's cross published from DocuDharma and The Stars Hollow Gazette)

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A good walk spoiled.

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@ek hornbeck

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When I offer to wash your back in the shower, all you have to say is yes or no.
Not all this "who are you, and how did you get in here?" nonsense.

snoopydawg's picture

It's not that hard to stay up with the group in front of you. Unless you're my friend KT. She arrives 15 minutes after t time because she arrives late to everything.

Then she has no idea what club to use until she gets up to her ball. Finally picks a club and then takes 10 practice swings. I won't describe her putting routine ... or what she does if she hits her ball into the woods.

Golfing while black and being a woman is new to me. I wonder what the call to the police said?

"Hey, there's some black women golfers who aren't playing fast enough and now they're taking too much time having a break?"

That the police even came is worrisome. This sounds more like blacks and especially black women shouldn't be allowed to play golf on the days I do.

On a side note, there was a story today about people wanting a store to stop selling racist bumper stickers. The one that they have a problem with says, "If I would have known this I would have picked my own cotton.”

People want to know what the problem is with it.

Sigh, Utah.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

Big Al's picture

@snoopydawg white people get more pissed than that at other white people for playing slow on a course. Nothing like the snobbishness of golfers and the game's stupid fucking rules, but like other entertainment it does require some consideration of other participants. I don't know about this case, didn't read enough to get a feel for what they were doing. The dude in the video was certainly being a jerk and calling the cops is a chickenshit move. Definitely made a mountain over a molehill and probably regret that today.

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@Big Al

Golf is so fucking stupid and classist anyway there's really no reason to mess it up with sexism and racism.

Not that it stops people.

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@ek hornbeck I've had a kind of like/hate relationship with golf. I like the game at times but hate the classism and elitism of it. Kind of like Amerika in a nutshell.

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Beautiful lush enivornment, far away from most of the people there, great walk. But then they expect you make the ball come with you using a silly stick.

Why didn't the women in front just let the "boys" play thru and say good riddance. If you're on an interstate and someone is riding your ass, you pull over a lane and let them pass. You don't argue the point.

Rochester Hills man facing felony charges for shooting at lost teen
Detroit Free Press, April 13, 2018 | Updated 5:31 p.m. ET April 13, 2018

A Rochester Hills man is facing felony charges after shooting at a teenage boy who knocked on his door to ask for directions.

Jeffrey Zeigler, 53, a retired Detroit firefighter, was arraigned Friday before 52-3 District Court Judge Julie Nicholson on charges of assault with intent to murder and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony, according to a release from the Oakland County Sheriff's Office.

Bond was set at $50,000, and Zeigler was ordered to wear a GPS tether upon release, to undergo alcohol testing and to stay at least 10 miles away from the victim and refrain from contacting him.

Rochester High School freshman Brennan Walker, 14, told WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) that he missed the bus Thursday and got lost trying to walk four miles from his home to school. He knocked on the door of Zeigler's home and was subsequently chased and shot at with a 12-gauge shotgun.

Brennan said he became lost while en route and knocked on someone's door to ask for directions. He was met by a woman yelling at him. She called her husband to the door, and he had a shotgun.

Oakland County Sheriff's deputies responded to the 2200 block of South Christian Hills Drive in Rochester Hills after a caller reported that a black male was attempting to break in and that her husband chased him into the yard.

Police determined that the male homeowner chased Brennan into the yard and fired at him with a 12-gauge shotgun.

I think the wife freaked, then freaked out the old guy upstairs, who came rushing down on auto pilot with his gun to make a criminal out of himself. I think the guy has a history too.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

@dkmich

The boyz weren't done with their beer, not even 45 minutes later when the Cops arrived.

The gals skipped the 3rd hole and were right on the tail of the group ahead. They finished the Front Nine in 1:45 which put them on track for a 3:30 round, well within the 4:15 Club limit (which no one pays attention to anyway if you're not Female and Black OR, looked at from another direction, a White Racist Misogynist Drunk who thinks because your son works at the course you "own" it).

Nope, it was pretty much exactly like Trump doing Cart doughnuts on the Green because he's a privileged asshole (who also happens to be a White Racist Misogynist).

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@ek hornbeck

But a pain in the ass is a pain in the ass. Best way to deal with it is to get out of its way. Most certainly, never knock on its door to ask for directions.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

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Because it looks silly to golf in a three piece you stop at your Clubhouse locker for your knickers and lucky argyles from the pro shop at St. Andrews and your trendy Cabby Cap ...

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzPsdkTCufs]

In America at least, golf is a dead man walking. While I'm sure most everyone has heard that "millennials are killing golf," it's actually that Millennials Aren't Killing Golf; Golf is Killing Golf.

Perhaps it would be better if golf courses could someday be turned into public garden spots, suitable for raising vegetables.

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it's called 'Golf'?
'Shit' was already taken.

Stop These Fucking Wars

peace

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Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .

Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .

If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
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a lot of people who are very confident that the police are their employees.

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