I’m not big into drinking so I actually have never drank on the course.
I don’t drink at all anyway, but I do bring a “near beer” in my cooler for the last hole.
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I very rarely have a drink on the course, but I do enjoy a beer or two afterwards. On occasion, if the bev cart comes by when I’m on 16 or 17 I’ll get one to finish the round with, but that’s about the extent of it. I’m pretty lucky, my wife doesn’t drink. We drive to the course together most weekends, so I drive out, I have a few beers after playing, and she drives home.
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I don’t think there is anything more satisfying than a post-round beer. Especially if you played well!
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I play in a 9-hole after work league where I’ll have a couple of light beers on the course. I don’t drink during weekend rounds as we play earlier. If it is a later round then maybe a light beer on the back 9. Mostly just drinks after the round, but there’s even less of that since turning 50. My stomach can’t seem to handle much alcohol or bad food now…and yet I’m still not losing weight lol.
Most of my rounds are at Dawn and done by 10:30 am, so I’m normally getting my 2nd cup of coffee when I get home. I would occasionally bring a flask, but the guys I play with don’t drink on the course so that’s also become my norm as of late.
However, if I’m playing a scramble or an after-work quick round in a cart, it’s hard not to have a beer or 4.
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I’m with you CoryO. I don’t like to drink on the course and often have to “stick to my guns” when the beverage cart comes around and the guys in my group get offended when I decline to partake.
I get very sad when I see guys head straight to the car from the 18th green knowing they’ve had 5-6 beers on the back 9–or, worse, see them wobbling to their car after another hour at the bar drinking and watching football.
If I was a “moms against drunk driving” advocate I’d write to cops and tell them to sit outside the gates of the local country club.
It’s really a problem we don’t talk enough about as a golf community.
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Working at golf courses all through high school and starting university left me with plenty of stories, some funny, some very much not funny.
Don’t generally drink on the course, especially during tournament play. However, with my regular foursome, they like to take shots for birdies. Needless to say we usually don’t have to take too many shots, but then there are days we need an Uber. Luckily this is only once in a blue moon. It does eventually slow the birdies down. Hahahaha
I usually knock back one on the back nine especially here in hot SoCal. At this point in my life, I don’t think alcohol is going to make a difference one way or another on the state of my game ;).
What I have noticed about myself though is that I am at a high end, play it once type of course, I definitely won’t drink until after the round. I want to fully enjoy the golf and (usually) my host and then pick up a round or two after. If I am playing a beater course, I’m definitely more inclined to imbibe.
I’m not much of a drinker to begin with. I enjoy a nice red and slap me if I don’t like a Strawberry Lemonade Truly, but I’ve never had a drink while playing golf in my 24 years playing the game. I’m too competitive to let anything get in the way of performing my best, though I’ve had plenty of rounds I wish I could blame on booze.
Those lemonade Trulys are dangerous. If it was a hot day out of the course, I might drink one a hole, so good thing I save them until after the round.
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I don’t drink on the course but as long as everyone stays sober and not stumbling all over themselves I don’t see any problem with it. A good shot of Jack D.,and 1 or 2 beers at the 19th are always welcoming especially when I play with Friends and family!
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Kentucky is weird in that we have incorporated cities… So I “live” in both Louisville and Prospect, and each has it’s own mayor and police force… My club is also in Prospect.
Legend has it that 20 years ago, or so, the club and the city were in a fight over something, so the mayor basically had the police park outside the gates and pull over anyone driving a golf cart and Breathalyzer them… Whatever issue the club had was dropped.
When I used to drink, I tended not to drink on the golf course… I didn’t find the two mixed all that well… If I posted a bad front nine, I’d occasionally have some drinks on the back 9… sometimes they’d loosen me up for a better back…I would never have that much…
I used to love drinking and bowling, though! A few drinks in, and I was a much better bowler… then it went steadily down hill.
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Coffee for me! Although I would enjoy a beer on those really hot days, I’ve never seen a beer cart on the course I play, going back to the bar at the clubhouse would really interrupt my round. Maybe afterward!
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I enjoy drinking beers during a round (unless it’s a special event I’m not having a ton of them).
Normal weekend morning rounds don’t usually have drinking, but absolutely on a Friday afternoon
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I enjoy a drink but rarely on the course. In the same way I wouldn’t have a beer in the gym, it just doesn’t compute to me.
That said…couple years ago, family holiday in Riviera Cancun, went out for solo early round. Tee off about 07.30 or something stupid. Got paired up with a NYPD cop. Loaded the cart up with the all inclusive beers, and topped up on the way round. We started about 08.30 with a Corona. Kev says ‘Breakfast!’. What a hoot. Great round, totally smashed, wouldn’t wholly recommend it as a regular thing. An English guy (he says to differentiate from my Scottish roots) - business exec, head up his own a$$, low handicapper, super serious, playing off the tips - catches up and joins us on the 9th. He wasn’t impressed by us, couple of working class p|$$ artists! Laughed so much. Chipped in on the 18th! Played with that guy again later in the week. Maybe only had 1-2 beers that round… 
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If I’m playing at an all-inclusive resort, I’ll most certainly be drinking out on the course. It’s like over eating at a buffet, you gotta get your money’s worth.
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Coffee & Baileys for the pre-dawn chills?
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This tourney I played in last week had open bar at the clubhouse, 5th tee comfort station and 14th tee comfort station, plus all sorts of snacks. I will say when the round was going the wrong direction, a cocktail can loosen you up and help you play some good golf (hence my 45-35 80 in the first round), but also had a partner that over-indulged and got a double or triple crown every time, and his game definitely suffered.
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