Get to your ball - be ready to hit when it's your turn - my irritation would be the opposite, people who stand and wait while someone goes through their pre-shot routine - obviously while moving forward/standing waiting to play you should not be getting in the way though.
Ready golf has many positives, but Hoganman makes a valid point.
In the promotion of walking and standing ahead of the next player, there is a risk of it all going wrong. And it could go wrong big time for someone.
When your pp goes ahead of you and you are now going to smack your 4 wood to the green, imagine if it goes really wrong in that your shot smacks him in the head.
He's a vegetable, and you are in Court being sued with your house and financial security about to go.
No good you saying you are insured- they bailed out long ago on the grounds your actions weren't careful.
No good saying he consented to playing ready golf so he knew the risks.The law and the judge wouldn't wear that one.
IMO, the judge would ask himself, " taking all the circumstances into account, the player being an18 handicap, would a reasonable man say that there was a plausible chance that the ball could hit the claimant. If so, the shout of fore, the players intentions, and anything else apart from a lightning strike
(excuse the hyperbole😀) would not come into it.
I think the judge would find against the player .
Note - the law tends to use the standard of what a "reasonable " man would consider . Not ( as might be argued in this case),another golfer.
I.e. (Joe Bloggs off the street).
You may dismiss this as whatifery and therefore not credible, but many professions do rightly consider whatifery - the law, medical research, etc.
I'm not saying every shot should have all pp behind you every time, but in the keenness to promote ready golf we should not lose our sense of caution.
I have seen it happen, in the desire "to get on with it".
