200 sq. ft. per 1000 rounds /par 3's for tees?

[mike_malone]

Recently i was told that par 3's should have 200 sq. ft. of teeing area per 1000 rounds played.Where does this idea come from?Is there some printed documentation to support it?

[Matt_Davenport]

Mayday,
This is the ol' rule of thumb.  For a course doing 40K rounds/year tees should be 4K square feet except par threes, and the first and tenth tees which should be 8K square feet.  It is a whole lot of teeing space, but you can never have too much, just ask your Superintendent!

[Jeremy Glenn,]

Even those numbers sound awfully low.

For a public course (30,000 rounds + in Canada), we typically average in the range of 6,000 sq.ft. for tees of 4's and 5's, and closer to 10,000 sq.ft. for tees on par 3's.

[Lynn_Shackelford]

And where possible on par 3's I would advise more distance crossways rather than lengthwise.  Tillinghast addressed this many years ago. A good hole will then play a bit differently depending on the tee markers.  A bit more variety, not a bad thing in golf and life.  Unfortunately, today we seem to be limited by trees and tree planing which creates too much shade.

[John Bernhardt]

I second Lynn's comment. Angles make great golf holes better and no where is that true than a par 3.