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You’re maybe just making statements I suspect without even considering if they could be looked at another way “ So what you’re saying...

Having shorter tees has got absolutely nothing to so with reaching greens in regulation, making the game easier or dumbing it down. It's...

Fee options and tee options are rather different. ;) I have played quite a few courses this year and I can only recall one that...

Of course I was making two seperate points One was about the handicap system which alters handicap according to course difficult and...

Under the current WHS the shorter course would have a lower rating so of course the course handicap would be reduced. There is nothing...

Missed this bit in my reply. Our tees are all available to anyone however I can't really blame women who are reluctant to allow men to...

Just because someone's handicap is 18 does not mean they should not be able to reach a green in regulation . When my h/cp was 18 I was...

I don't think anyone is trying to restrict tees to one sex in the article , congratulations to you r Mrs by the way. The point is that...

The point of the article is that there are very few places where such tees exists for a large proportion of women who play the game.

Very few expect to be the best but I would think the vast majority who I have met would like to improve and some to try and be their own...

After a couple of whinges about articles on the GM front page, I thought this article was thought provoking and interesting. Though the...

Looking through my scores to answer this has made me sad, as I realise I haven't actually broken 80 this year. I did several times in...

A year of inconsistent golf after swing changes brought on by lessons in Feburary culminated in my best round of the year while on...

You're half way to a decent limerick please don't stop.

Anchoring is only now 'cheating' it was once within the rules. I'm not particularly clear why it should have been disallowed, if it was...