Yardage Books, measured sprinkler heads, etc. Nobody in my group walks up to a ball and says, "hmm, this feels like a seven iron"....nope, they all have to walk around in circles and locate a yardage marker, then walk off the distance to their ball. And then debate is the flag front, back or middle. And then debate what iron to hit.
Now, none of them has hit a green in regulation in over a season but the whole act is played out again and again and again. Does ANYBODY play be feel anymore?
By "my group" I refer to any foursome on the golf course on any random Saturday at the 90 hole facility of Bethpage. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE BATAAN DEATH MARCH WAS LIKE UNTIL SENTENCED TO BETHPAGE, maybe not Black, ON A WEEKEND. 90 Holes of golf, all backed up. I bring along the Sunday newspaper with me.
Don't get me started on practice swings, or no, lets not go there...PRACTICE SWINGS THAT TAKE FULL DIVOTS...which usually begat, you guessed it, ANOTHER PRACTICE SWING.