Apparently the WHS insists upon total yardage across the measured course to be limited to within 100 yards of the measured distance.
This is causing some clubs not to utilise the full extent of their teeing grounds in rotations to comply, and concentrating wear & tear.
The card & pencil mentality imposing too far and may lead to tees being built on the future as only 14 yards long, so goodbye to RTJ's "Runway" tees over time.
This is true, but lots of clubs violate the rule with impunity. Resort courses in particular almost never have the tees as far back as the scorecard says and the course rating posits. It's all baloney, but it's all so that the USGA has a monopoly on the handicap system.
The ridiculously complicated WHS system (measured course every day of the season for general play cards which are largely played outside of the rules anyway) forces unnecessary complexity and rigidity upon green crews, who should be focused primarily on agronomy.
The natural evolution of tee design then becomes, wider (double, or triple width on par 3s) shorter tee boxes to spread wear via constrained rotation but still comply.
In the UK Distance Points are right at the back of the tees (the former system required 4 yards from the back minimum, 6 yards if there was a barrier behind) as there was a race for distance from the 1985 CONGU Handicapping System.
The longer the course the higher the (SSS) rating so all clubs chased yardage where it was available, meaningfully changing a great deal of holes and the rythmn and balance of courses, not for the better.
Few UK courses have any space left for further tee extensions which are still sought (but in reality not needed) to try and counter the distance of elite players (a very small proportion of players, by definition).
Hopefully #rollback and its successors on club technology will stall this activity, but let's believe that when we see it.
More matchplay please, less counting and statistically manipulating decimals!