Applying the U.S. Open setup to everyday golf

[Mark_Fine]

Tom,
It will be interesting to see what Davis says.  It think it is unfortunately more complicated than we would hope it should be.  As a quick example, if you take a course's #1 handicap hole and move the tees to the forward most position, is it still the #1 handicap hole?  This makes a big difference if you are in a match play event and strokes are being allocated based on the hole handicaps.  We spent a lot of time on all these issues and ended up with new cards/handicaps/ratings for the the new tee locations.  Again, none of this matters too much if you are playing without handicaps as the pros do.  However, if you do keep a handicap, you need to turn in a score along with a slope and course rating for the course you played.  Maybe some else here who is more expert on the handicapping system than I will chime in?
Mark

[Dan Herrmann]

Our course was set up this way today, and it's SO much fun.

One example if you've been to French Creek...  The back tee on #1 was shared with the back tee on #10 (the par 3 that crosses the entry road).  I've been trying to get that done for 4 years, and it's been done twice in the last month.  (There is no teeing ground on our #1 - Gil used the fairway for the teeing area.)

The tee shot on 10 from there is about 190 yards and about 25' downhill to a tough green complex.

It's really fun to have to wait on 1 tee for guys hitting on 10.  Of course, the guys playing 10 catch grief for any bad shots