Cellphones on Golf Courses

Sensitizing one’s self to the use and abuse of cell phones on course:


As a regular golfer I agree completely with the letter written by Mr Paramjit Singh Sethi of Delhi in Golf Digest’s Feb issue lamenting the rudeness of using the ubiquitous cell phone on the golf course, something which is completely eschewed by the “unspoken etiquette of the course.”

I can vouch for the seriousness with which this is taken across the world since I have been fortunate to experience the kind hospitality of many different golf clubs and top class golf courses around the Globe by virtue of my IGU membership and of course, as a keen traveller, golfer and hobbyist golf writer for Golfline Magazine, Bangalore.

While we all appreciate the necessity of the phone and the fact that it regularly helps us in case of emergency etc, I still do believe that if we really tried, we could put it away for those few hours that we spend each week at the golf course, in pursuit of the game we all love so well!

A most disconcerting feeling it is, I may say, to hear the ghastly ringing tone of yet another phone, just as one steps up to address the ball at the tee or just as one decided to take a particular line through a putt!

I sincerely hope that more and more golfers take this step as a voluntary one thereby contributing hugely to their own enjoyment of the game as well as that of other golfers around them!