Different spec golf balls might aid matters including a wide spread of ball types with some that go further for shorter, less powerful players and some that don’t go as far for longer, more powerful players with all players playing on a smaller acreage course too.
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David
Good to see you are getting on board with the newly formed "roll-forward" movement.
Niall
I suggested exactly that on a thread years ago.
Went over like wet blanket
Same tee(maybe two sets 6500 and 5000 yards), different balls.
Occasionally players play an up or a back tee for variety, pace or practicality
More social.
Touring pro gets a ProX minus 2
I have a ProVX or minus 1
10 handicap young athletic player ProvX
His 75 year old grandfather a ProVX plus 2, or plays forward tees if it's just he and grandma-with a less hot ball.
Grandma plays a ProvVX plus 2 and/or plays the forward tees.
OT-I think what amazes me most is how many people play the same course, from the same tees,EVERY SINGLE DAY...
Neil, IMHO, the problem is
1.-too much distance between shorter and longer hitters now due to athletic skills and hot equipment increasing scale-resulting in courses feeling they have to build 6+ sets of tees and combo cards so that everyone can play their "preferred yadage"
2. Trying to figure out "landing areas" for all these types of players from all these different tees. The tees are often decided by handicap, and some 10's hit it 300 yards and some hit it 170, so the more random and spread out the hazards are the better, so as not to always torture the same player who may be stuck on a set of tees by handicap that push him right into every single tight landing area.
I am NOT for everyone having the same landing area, but rather different landing areas because people hit it different lengths and I'd like to see LESS sets of tees.
As you point point out, Golden Age courses do that better due to smaller scale.