No Blue Tees

[ChipRoyce]

That's a great idea.
Our club has year round handicap posting and our courses lengthen not only due to temps, but wetter conditions / dormant bermuda, making scoring difficult and making golf less fun during the winter months.
While I welcome the opportunity to have my handicap adjust upwards due to the conditions (as the rest of the dlub tends to as well), the idea to mix things up sounds like a lot of fun - esp. to go absurdly up (women's tees) on a cold day.

[Bill Brightly]

The collective wisdom of the treehouse is powerful. Somewhere along the way the discussions here made me take a fresh look at a course that I have played a few thousand times since 1974.  I've probably  played 95% of these rounds from our Blue tees, 4% from the Blacks, and less that 1% from the Whites.

As the first post on this thread indicates, I dragged about a dozen guys to the tees of my choosing for a few weeks after handicap season closed last November. It was fun, we saw all kinds of "new" shots and the idea caught on to the point where our Golf Committee created a composite course and had it rated. The committee took it one step further and created a short course composite (combining Red and White tees.)

The new scorecards where delivered today. The Mayo Course is the "long" composite course, a par 71 that playes 100 yards shorter than our par 72 Blue tees. It is named the Mayo Course after our old pro, Charlie Mayo, a Scottish-born player of some renown. The shorter course course is named in honor of Tom Hawthorne, also born in Scotland, who served as our pro from the 1950's to the 1990's.

Unless you know Hackensack well, this scorecard won't mean much to you, but here it is!

[Garland Bayley]

Bill,

If you are willing to go the extra mile, you can play any set of tees you want any round and still post. Just calculate the total length you played, find the rated tees closest to that length, and apply the USGA adjustment for the ratings and post using the adjusted course rating and slope rating.

[Bill Brightly]

My club has a STRONG mindset that the Blues tees (6650) are the regular tees, and the Whites (6350) are the senior tees, and the whites get very little play. We even play our Senior Championship from the Blues. This was an attempt to get some guys to try some different tees, to get some different looking shots. I hope it catches on. I did not know about the ability to play shorter tees and enter the scores, that is interesting.

[Philip Caccamise]

I like to play a game I call the Carousel. My club has 4 sets of tees but it works with any number. Basically if you make par you stay at the tee you're on, bogey one forward, birdie one back, double bogey two forward, etc. But it's a circle, so if you make birdie from the black tees you go to the reds, if you make bogey from the reds you go back to the blacks. And it plays well in reverse, too...

[Steve Lang]

Mixing up the tees is one of my favorite ways to spice up the casual round.  Playing the same hole within a +/- 10 yard range would get monotonous unless the conditions change dramatically.

My Wednesday night league organi
- Format (usually two man scramble) where you start on the White Tees.  Birdies move you back to the Blue Tees on next hole, while Bogeys allow you to move up to the Red Tees for the next hole.  This can lead to some strategic decisions, especially in a skins format.  My partner & I debated missing a 2 foot par putt for the chance to play the next hole as a 430 yard Par 5 (vs. the 560 yard White Tees).

we do something like this, however so as to avoid the real false gambit issue, all start on forward tees, birdie move back, par stay, bogey move forward, ... sub-bets or final winner is who gets to farthest back tee..  learn how to make birdies and grind out pars...