The issue of pace of play has featured also in international golf press, for example the recent article in the Golf World magazine. One interesting finding was that respondents to a reader survey mentioned pace of play being a problem on their home golf course - and more so on weekdays, not during weekends as one might expect. What is this about?

We can validate the assumption by analysing the GREENi data. On the weekdays (Mon-Fri) the average time spent on the golf round is slightly higher than on weekends (Sat-Sun). There are two main reasons for this: The first on is that courses are not typically as crowded as they during weekends. This, on the other hand, can make certain groups to proceed even more rapidly, but it also gives an opportunity to "take is slow" on the golf course - when there is not group right behind you giving you a pressure, certain golfers take more time to "tune" their shots, chips and putts than they would on weekends. Another reason is that quite seldomly, there are marshals on the golf course on weekdays. In the most cases, marshals are used only during weekends and they try to control pace of play as well, mainly trying to find slow play on the golf course.

It is possible to do course monitoring every day and even when it is not - for a reason or another - to use persons as marshals on the golf course.

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