Mixed Tees

[Steve_ Shaffer]

Good "how to" article in the current issue of GAP's magazine on the experience of Lookaway GC in Bucks County.
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http://www.gapgolfmag-digital.org/gapgolf/2011fall#pg6

[Doug Wright]

Steve,

We started using mixed tees this year at our club with a lot of positive feedback and use. They're used on 4 holes--one par 5 (8th), two par 4s (11 and 18) and one par 3 (12). They probably reduce the total yardage by a couple hundred yards but make the course more playable for those of us who are shorter-knockers, old or both.

[Malcolm Mckinnon]

Steve,

I played a few weeks back with a very good friend at Myopia Hunt Club and he had a miserable time getting over the fescue and onto the fairway. It was a member/guest where we all played from the whites, yet, this type of system for my 80+ year old friend would have made the experience much more of a pleasure for him.

My friend is a Pine Valley Member who carried a single digit handicap most of his life.

This was his first time at Myopia and all he could say was " I wish I could have played here when I was younger".

Mixed tees might have helped. Now he talks about giving up Golf altogether.

[Jim Nelson]

I know I've banged this drum before, but who gives a damn about where the tee markers are placed.  Why are we all so bound to the rather arbitrary markers which the staff has put out.  I am sure there are some good reasons for the greenkeepers to mix it up, but at Ballyneal they say where not to tee it up rather than where to.  Unless there is a competition of some sort, find the spot which best suits your game.  Have fun.  Enjoy the match.