Resident happy to see elimination of fivesomes at golf courses

As a resident of Sun City since 2007 and from working in the Pro Shop at the Legend of Arrowhead’s Golf Course in Glendale for 14 years, I am extremely happy that we are trying to eliminate the scheduling of fivesomes on our community golf courses. I strongly believe that the residents of Sun City should have advanced reservation rights over the public for tee times. I also strongly support only allowing foursomes to play, which should reduce our playing time per round.

I have witnessed far too many people booking fivesomes just to ensure that no one else is scheduled to play in their group. Here’s a news flash, there is no golfer in Sun City that I am aware of, that wholly owns one of our courses. Therefore, if they have three friends that wish to play together as a foursome, great. However, should you not have a foursome, you should and must accept the fact that you may be playing with someone you don’t know, to fill out your foursome, if demand dictates.

I also strongly recommend that if you book any number of golfers to play at a certain time, and one or more of these players do not show up for their time and did not call to inform the pro shop, they should be billed for their round. Billing should be at the rate the person was listed on the tee sheet. If the golfer is a yearly member, they should be charged the appropriate trail fee for that time of year even though they have paid for a full year of golf.  This doesn’t preclude them from having common courtesy and cancelling when they can’t make it.

As far as carts, three carts in a group should be more than enough, however should the pro shop assign one tee time to four single golfers, these four people should be allowed to each have their own cart and not be required to share their cart with someone else they may or may not know.

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