How many par 4's and par 5's have tees that provide diverse angles of attack

[Patrick_Mucci]

to the DZ ?

# 16 at NGLA comes to mind

The tee left of the 15th green is elevated while the tee to the right of the 15th green is practically below the level of the green.

Both tees provide substantively different angles of attack into the DZ.

How many other courses have this feature ?

And, why isn't it more common ?

Can the maintainance of an additional tee by that much ?

[Scott Szabo]

Wouldn't #5 at Sand Hills work?  Such a dramatic change from the regular tee playing straight forward, with the back tee up above #4 green bringing the right hand bunker much more into play.  The first thing that came to mind when I read your post.  #1 at Ballyneal offers much of the same between the two teeing grounds, although the bunker is on the inside left of that hole.

[Patrick_Mucci]

Scott,

Yes, to a degree, but, how could we forget # 2 at Sand Hills ?

[Mark_Rowlinson]

I love the idea of different tees to make the strategy of the hole different, but in the UK you can't do it for competitions played under handicap qualifying rules. You can only play the course within a certain distance from the designated measured plates. A nice example is the 2nd at Royal Troon which is a straight or R-to-L hole from the summer tee and a L-to-R hole from the winter tee, but there are different winter and summer cards, and you can't play qualifying comps off winter tees. 

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