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Bethpage Black will host the 2025 Ryder Cup in September, but golf insider Rick Golfs has reported that the course is seeing long queues.
Golfs, quoting a Reddit post, said that a person arrived at Bethpage Black at 4 a.m. with a friend. While the pair expected to get a "low numbered" spot, they found out they were 73rd in line.
After realising that it was going to be a "long long day", they packed up and encountered a "dude making breakfast behind his car" who was camping out for the next day.
Criticising the situation, Golfs wrote:
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"How long would you wait in line to play a great golf course? Today at Bethpage Black there were 73 people in line to play at 4 AM!!! People are waiting already for tomorrow. The Shrink The Game movement already has some legs. At some point, the demand is going to make golf impossible for many."
The Bethpage Black is one of the most popular golf courses and is situated in New York. It's an 18-hole playing course.
What fans said about golf insider's claim about long queues at Bethpage Black
After Rick Golfs reporting a Reddit user's experience about having to wait in long lines at Bethpage Black, fans shared their opinions.
"I thought Bethpage took tee times?," one fan asked to which Golfs answered:
"They do but they are hard to get. They save some for walk ups."
One fan asked about the 'Shrink the Game' movement, which the insider replied:
"It’s not real, but “shrink the game” is a meme in response to all the people who say “grow the game”, even though the game is packed."
"I’m old enough to remember people camping at Bestbuy on Thanksgiving night for Black Friday. Not many courses I would do that for." one fan said.
Ricks Golfs responded that he had never waited so much for a sale and didn't find it worth it.
"Bethpage is right around the corner from me, it really is crazy. I was going to get down there around 3 this morning, but I was able to grab an afternoon time that somebody dropped," another fan wrote.
The insider replied:
"That’s the best to do it. Refresh that site!"
Ricks Golfs also said that he had waited for four hours to play at St. Andrews, but that the iconic golf course is the only one he would wait in line for so long.
