A little background:
About a month ago we bought a house on a public course here in the Dallas area. Our property stretches from about 160 in to the front of the green. I've seen a couple of the locals in the neighborhood out at around sunset tinkering around on the greens. I myself have walked out and played from about 100 in about 4 or 5 times.
Today I put my clubs on and walked out and started on the tee and played the hole in its entirety. I was playing 2 balls and after I was done I was putting from multiple spots on the green. It should be noted that the only reason I was doing this is because I handn't seen anyone come through in about 40 minutes, and I could see from the previous holes that were visible from my yard that nobody was coming.
As I was walking off the green I see a golf cart come barreling toward me with one of the staff members from the course. His first question to me was "did you check in to the pro shop?"
I told him that I lived in the house directly on the green and that I honestly didn't think it would be a problem if I was out there doing what I was doing
His response "you have to pay to play golf here"
At this point in time, I was annoyed, but remained polite and respectful. I told him I was sorry and as a resident on the course that I didn't think it would be a problem. I didn't mean to ruffle any feathers and I apologized. He said "its fine" and then barreled off. He wasn't nice and was still pissed.
Now I know what I was doing isn't exactly right per se, but I didn't think it was that big of a deal either. I kind of figured that if you lived on a course it was kind of an understood thing that the golf staff would allow residents of the courses to kind of use the course in the off times.
Kind of curious of y'alls opinion on the matter and how you would have handled the situation
About a month ago we bought a house on a public course here in the Dallas area. Our property stretches from about 160 in to the front of the green. I've seen a couple of the locals in the neighborhood out at around sunset tinkering around on the greens. I myself have walked out and played from about 100 in about 4 or 5 times.
Today I put my clubs on and walked out and started on the tee and played the hole in its entirety. I was playing 2 balls and after I was done I was putting from multiple spots on the green. It should be noted that the only reason I was doing this is because I handn't seen anyone come through in about 40 minutes, and I could see from the previous holes that were visible from my yard that nobody was coming.
As I was walking off the green I see a golf cart come barreling toward me with one of the staff members from the course. His first question to me was "did you check in to the pro shop?"
I told him that I lived in the house directly on the green and that I honestly didn't think it would be a problem if I was out there doing what I was doing
His response "you have to pay to play golf here"
At this point in time, I was annoyed, but remained polite and respectful. I told him I was sorry and as a resident on the course that I didn't think it would be a problem. I didn't mean to ruffle any feathers and I apologized. He said "its fine" and then barreled off. He wasn't nice and was still pissed.
Now I know what I was doing isn't exactly right per se, but I didn't think it was that big of a deal either. I kind of figured that if you lived on a course it was kind of an understood thing that the golf staff would allow residents of the courses to kind of use the course in the off times.
Kind of curious of y'alls opinion on the matter and how you would have handled the situation