I hear what you're saying/asking, Steve - but the answers are the very ones that generated this thread, ie that have me realizing that I can't play this course every day (or even every week):
- the blue tees, except for one exception, are always only about 10 paces behind the whites, and on the exact same line; while the red tees tend to be 50 to 100 paces ahead of the whites. The former provides little variety, the latter changes the nature of the game too much for my tastes, and not in either a fun or challenging way -- I don't want to play golf with just a 5 iron and a wedge
- While i am a card and pencil type, it's because that's an easy way to 'track' my ball striking. I've been averaging about 1 birdie and 2-3 bogeys and 5 pars a round (ie 9 holes), and while it would be nice to par everything and bogey nothing and make more birdies, I really don't want to do it by moving around from one set of tees to another.
That's been discussed a lot around here: I know many good and experienced players do just that, moving from one set to another even during the same round -- but I never have, and I don't want to: I'd like to think that I'm playing the course as the architect 'intended'.
Which comes to my main point, i.e. after only about 7 plays, I've realized that the architect hadn't 'intended' all that much! And with all the lushness and the green-ness and the wetness...well, no, I can't play it every day.