Course marshals. God bless them. They perform a thankless task. Many do the job as volunteers simply because they love the game. Others are paid. Others do it because the course gives them access to play for free. Today I ran into one like all those we hate to deal with.
Yesterday, as we finished on the 18th green, the marshal drove up and told two of my partners to keep their pull carts at least 30 feet from the green. Today this same man approached us at the 8th. I was pulling a cart and had left it about 20 feet from the green behind a bunker. He accosted my partners again, so I asked him if he could explain the logic of this request. He told me it was in the rules.
He also told us they were trying to grow the grass, and pull carts matted it down. I explained that there are approximately 8 square inches of footprint on the cart wheels carrying about 50 pounds