"Can I ask a dumb question: what do you need the ropes for (the ones right of the forward tee)? Do you have carts? And, if you do, would anybody really care if a cart traversed that ground?"
Shivas:
That's not a dumb quesition at all, it's a fine quesiton. The answer, though, is you obviously don't understand Donnie's membership very well. They're a lot like mine at GMGC (actually they're plenty of the same people). Maintenance sort of has to show them the way around a course or they may end up in their cart (or actually even if they're walking) in a bunker or some other hazard like the water. When driving in an automobile around clubs like Fishers or GMGC people need to pay special attention because the members who drive around those clubs sure don't. Matter of fact, old Mrs Prissyknicker at Fishers is such a damn Anglophile she likes to drive on the left side of the road half the time--so one entering or leaving Fishers has to keep an eye out that she might be coming the other way. Somebody almost hit her last year while she was driving on the left side of the road and that guest was send a scalding letter for showing some very poor etiquette.