koiom wrote:

Snippet from an email I just received from Keysie is keeping hope alive for my sanity

Course Re-Opening
In recent correspondence Daniel Andrews has indicated that he may lift the ban on Golf after the May 11 review. In light of this the club has decided to arrange timesheets for this.
If golf restrictions are not lifted on 11 May, then Members who have booked to play from May 12 will be informed by email of the cancellation of their booking.

All members must only proceed to pro-shop/tee or putting green 10 minutes prior to tee-time, no congregation in car park or any other areas of course allowed before or after round.

Please note that all restrictions and rules will be reviewed constantly and may change without due notice.

Koiom
Golf Australia recommendations which will probably apply to all clubs are for 1 tee start, groups of 2 players, wait in car until 10 minutes before tee off time, social golf only interesting they say (stfd comp is counted as social), no monthly medals.no score cards.

means half normal field size so members will missing out on a game as time sheet will likely book out in 10 minutes of opening.
groups pf 2 should be able to get round in under 3hrs so might have some fast rounds.

certainly going to be interesting golf until around October or November

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Madam

Madam wrote:

xrman wrote:

I played at Barnbougle last year and was surprised to find that they had 4 tee positions that were allocated to you on the basis of handicap. The lower your handicap, the further back you tee off from. As a 20 + handicapper then I thought it was a good idea until I found that now my drives were now in putting me in range of the fairway bunkers. I had a good game and enjoyed the experience, thinking that this must be what it feels to be a good golfer who can hit 250 m plus drives and then hit high lofted clubs into greens.

Most clubs I play at have Mens, Ladies and green fee paying golfer tees. I was talking with Bogey Golfer last week and he mentioned that his club is going to trial the tee positions according to handicap. I wondered what the pros and cons would be.

Just to see what it was like laying off the front ( red) tees at our club I played a practice game today using the red tees. What I found was on some holes it didn’t make a lot of difference, but on others there were advantages. The dog leg holes where I could not hit over the bend reliably, I had to use shorter clubs than usual to get to the bend. The straighter holes I ended up hitting to the green with higher lofted clubs and reduced my score.

One downside I thought of is that the pace of play might be adversely affected, while players mover out of the way of the back markers while they drive, then move into position for their turn. It might also skew results in favour of higher handicap players for a while, as they can score better being in range with scoring clubs a little sooner. Their handicap would drop fairly quickly and then they would be relegated to the next tee position ( towards the rear).

The upside I think would be to increase the enjoyment of the game by those players who have either lost distance as they aged, or never had it in the first place. Also leaners might be more encouraged to join in competitions earlier, if they saw a handicap system helping them on the course, as well as in the scoring system.

What do you think?

• This topic was modified 5 years, 12 months ago by xrman.

Gender-neutral tees are the go and its why we have a slope rating system in place (theoretically).

Let people play (male/female) from whichever tee and adjust handicap accordingly. Play the tee for your handicap level and enjoy the round.

Suggestion
Given you are in favour of this approach why not adopt this multi tee approach to the Nationals competition this year A.
great opportunity to bring some innovation into the event, rather than everyone getting beaten up with long water carries.
the courses we are playing have multi tees in place so lets use them

here’s a suggestion All play of mid tees (white) for round 1, then allocate tees for Sunday based on Saturday scores.
eg 36 points and above move back to blue tees,
30 to 36 stay off mid tees.
less than 30 play one tee forward red.
really even out the competition and make the game much more enjoyable.

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Madam

Hi GAZ
any news on what will happen with next years clubs from big OEM’s. Because most of components are made in China, there might be a big down turn in availability of shafts and component heads.

Weetbix wrote:

I wonder if the scratch ratings are robust enough to support allowing the field to choose their tee in a comp

I suspect that people who were really keen for an advantage would find a tee (I’m guessing the shortest available) to maximise their scoring chances

The scratch ratings are set for each tee and so is slope so from each tee you will have a different daily handicap, thus allowing players to play at tee for their skill level and hence all scores should count the same.
The WHS has been set up on this basis.

ie putting drills like 1m, 5m 10 m into circle drill.
chip and pitch with 1 club to target using 3 trajectories
chip with 3 different clubs to 1 target
go into a bunker. get ball out first time

at range play the course make it real and under pressure.
in end should only use 35 balls
hit 13 drivers only into a narrow fwy
then the clubs one will use for second shos into par 4’s

hit 1 tee shot with 3w or hybrid into narrow target
hit the 4 clubs which you will use on par 3 holes

hybrids
5 irons
wedge

Schmuck wrote:

If we have to self isolate… Wtf are we going to watch?

Not sure but there is predicted to be a big boom in babies in Dec, Jan, Feb next year

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Schmuck

The committee are in discussion right now about Sunshine game