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Infrequent rounds is a true handicap. I'm not saying that you gotta play a ton, but fewer rounds tends to inflate the value you place on individual rounds, holes and even shots. I think infrequents rounds is one of the reasons for the pitiful slow play. I think shot inflation is a better way to go...although that can become extreme as well. The best example of this is of course the PGA Tour...the pace car as it were. I know there is a lot of money at stake, but ohmygosh (valley girl tone, if you please!) some of those guys are slower than tree sap in January. There is a cadence to golf...a general time span that is generous enough to allow for individual internal timers. I think carts have done even more than Tour pace of play to disrupt the cadence of the game. I loath carts...but given the rather long walks in between some holes these days!

You gotta get out more, Bucket! Even for nine hole knockabouts. I for one have a personal interest in your progress...given your selfless contributions to our progress...and even just for the endorphins!