{"id":104,"date":"2014-11-18T13:11:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T02:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2014-11-18T13:11:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T02:41:41","slug":"pace-of-play-case-study-4-field-compression","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/?page_id=104","title":{"rendered":"Pace of Play \u2013 Case Study 4 \u2013 Field Compression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When this system was first discussed, the question was raised,<\/p>\n<pre>\"Would it be possible for players to exit the course faster then they enter it?\"<\/pre>\n<p>An initial guess was that this was not possible because the nature of queuing would deliver only a one way leakage or loss of time per tee tier.<\/p>\n<p>But empirical evidence has proven this wrong. It\u00a0<strong>is<\/strong> possible for groups to exit the course faster than they enter it. In the graph below, a typical 2-tee start with 15 tiers has produced a 2 minute expansion across the tee: first group 4:10, last group 4:12 round times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Event-6890-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105\" src=\"http:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Event-6890-3.jpg\" alt=\"Event-6890-3\" width=\"696\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Event-6890-3.jpg 696w, https:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Event-6890-3-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Event-6890-3-600x282.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Event-6890-3-676x318.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But what is also evident in the graph is the behaviour on each side of the slow playing 7:18 group. The tee interval in this instance is 8 minutes. Groups up to 7:10 each exited the course in less than 8 minute intervals thus showing a reduction in round times. Again after the slow playing group at 7:18, the next 4 groups again existed the course in less than 8 minute intervals.<\/p>\n<p>The groups which followed the 7:50 group did not trigger a slow play event but they did add to teh overall expansion rate of the tee.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, an overall expansion of 2 minutes across 15 tiers is very acceptable. The fact that groups which are &#8216;in position&#8217; and which have adopted the new culture of pace expected of them has delivered a good result for the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When this system was first discussed, the question was raised, &#8220;Would it be possible for players to exit the course faster then they enter it?&#8221; An initial guess was that this was not possible because the nature of queuing would deliver only a one way leakage or loss of time per tee tier. But empirical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":64,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions\/106"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpace.meta.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}