UC-225 Golf Course Pace Management Simulation

The game of golf has been played for centuries so it has seen handfuls of evolutions throughout its time being played. Throughout the games evolution one factor of its existence has hardly ever changed, time. In current day golf standards, time and the management of time is a significant part of not only how well the game as a whole run but how the courses that own venues to play the game operate as well. In golf there is a standard for time known as the pace of play model, where groups that are sent off during the day are queued into a course by whatever hole they're told to start on. If the golfers fall behind the pace of play standard, then largely, the courses flow of players that bring them revenue decreases in pace. Once a course experiences this decrease in pace, a large hit is taken to the course's financials. This widely affects everyone involved in the course's operation from cart attendants to restaurant workers, and lastly but not at all in the least, the management. These affects are not only present in a normal day of golf but also in tournament settings as well where groups finishing later in the tournament time frame may cost cart expenditures for the rest of the course not playing in a tournament and wanting to go out and get in a normal round. The project shown will display a knowledge of how this model takes precedence in the world of golf by displaying groups along with their carts queueing into the course structure and playing through a tournament. The goal of the project is to show the user the frequency of pace violations that occur and marshal interference needed in order to keep up the pace of the tournament so that the course can study time discrepancies and find where on the course these discrepancies occur and with what groups they occur in. In golf it is imperative that the pace of play model be successfully followed, otherwise structurally related to time, the course takes a hit both organizationally and financially.