Minnesota Golf Pro Shop Employee Has A Message For Some Customers. It’s Really Getting On His Last Nerves

A Minnesota golf pro shop worker says there’s one persistent question from golfers that annoys him to no end. And it has everything to do with tee time requests.

TikToker Dylan Langley (@dlangdoes) says he gets particularly heated whenever club members call to book a game but don’t give him a specific time to do so. This leaves him to offer up some options, only to be told that none of those times work for the player who refuses to be more specific.

Tee Time Requests Gone Wrong

“When you call the pro shop, can you please have, like, some idea of when you want to play in mind? Because I’m sick of answering the phone … to people [who] say they want to play in the afternoon,” he says.

He expounds on how the vague time requests really grind his gears. “Do you have anything this afternoon? Yeah, we have 3:30, 4 o’clock. How’s that work for you? ‘No, that’s going to be too late for me.’ ‘Sorry. I’ll have to pass.’ What do you mean? You said the afternoon? 3 o’clock. That’s … the afternoon, bud. It’s too late? What do you, what are you looking for?” he says, slightly raising his voice, irritated, as his clip comes to a close.

Other folks who replied to Langley’s video also shared their own gripes of working at a golf course.

Another worker said, “How about, ‘can I get the earliest tee time you have?’ And then they say, ‘that’s too early, how about 10?’ What time do you think we open?”

Another shared a separate anecdote that suggests golfers get very finicky about their preferred tee times. “My favorite is, ‘Can I get a tee time around 8:30?’ And I tell them that the closest I have is 8:50. ‘No that’s too late never mind.’ Like it’s 20 minutes … you were already planning on golfing for at least 4 hours,” they wrote.

Pet Peeves

There’s no shortage of similarly frustrated pro shop and golf course workers who’ve had bizarre encounters with club members. This Reddit post features a video skit highlighting some frequent, anger-inducing exchanges employees have with golfers calling in to reserve tee times. The skit begins with a person phoning in and commenting that the course’s contact number had changed. Which prompted them to ask if the course had been moved.

Consequently, this prompts the worker to remark aloud how a business could just go about moving an entire golf course. Following this, the golfer asks for the earliest tee time available. When warned that their course opens quite early, the player assures the worker that they want the earliest possible tee time. That is until they learn that the green is available at 5:45am. “Whoa, that is way too early, do you have anything around 9?” they say, immediately contradicting their initial ask.

People who replied to the clip corroborated that many of the requests in the skit were “spot on.” In a separate Reddit upload, someone else in the r/golf sub highlighted this exact tee time paradox. But in this instance, the golfer ends up arriving at the course two hours before they’re supposed to play.

In this r/golf subreddit post, another pro shop employee shared their personal lamentations with golfers. They said they get really irked when golfers ignore that their tee time is when they should be hitting their first ball. Additionally, they’re gobsmacked whenever golfers try to book last-minute spots on the course and can’t believe there aren’t any available. Lastly, another pet peeve is when a golfer doesn’t tell workers over the phone that they’ll need range balls.

BroBible has reached out to Langley via Instagram direct message further comment.