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Never in my 40 years of golf have I had an experience like we had at Rolling Green. My wife and I, along with my son visiting from Ohio, joined a very nice single gentleman at the course to make up a foursome. It was a beautiful day.

I knew this was going to be a different golf experience as we waited on the first tee for the group who had teed off in front of us, four young men. As we watched and waited for these young men meander their way forward on this opening par 5, it was literally 15 minutes until we could hit our drives. It was a full 25 minutes for that foursome ahead of us to finish the hole, and they were waiting on no one for their shots.

Several holes later, with the same absolute snail pace of play (and again, no one was holding up the group in front of us), for the first time in my life I called the clubhouse and explained that we were on pace for a 6 hour round. They sent someone out who "talked" to them, and they perhaps sped up slightly.

On the 7th green, while we were putting, we were suddenly passed by 7 carts and a total of 11 additional young men, probably ages 18-21. They proceeded to the 8th tee and began (all of them) to tee off. An 11-some. We of course got to the tee before they had finished, and had a firm conversation with them about many things. They didn't care that they were rude, and they didn't care about the fact that they were essentially 2 four-somes and a threesome. Again I called the clubhouse, and about 2 holes later (and after another huge slowdown of course), they were talked to. Allegedly some left the course, but not all of them.

The second 9 was a continuation of the first. Slow play to the point of extreme aggravation. Young men in groups buzzing all over the place and whooping and hollering on fairways next to us. I've played slow before, but not like this. It was like we had stumbled onto a frat house having an outing. One has zero chance of maintaining any rhythm or focus under conditions like that.

All said, it was an absolutely horrific day of golf. Needless to say, we will never go back. I guess when the fees are on the cheap side, you get folks on the course who know little to nothing about the game. And course management probably can't afford to lean hard on folks whom I assume are their bread and butter.