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Who takes any notice of that, nearly all the courses I've played this year breaks the 10 yards / 100 yards rule somewhere on the course, but guys I have played with say on the 1st tee "shall we put a card in today", play well get a cut, then can't play to their handicap when in a comp at their...
As I mentioned, did you play those courses set up from the rated tee posistions, I played a course last year, it had some ridiculous ratings from it's back tees and quite rightly so, but when I played it, all the back tees were moved up a far bit, course was dry a loads of run on fairways, would...
There's so many variables in a course set up.
You can play the same course one week apart, and depending on tee positions (same tee colour) and pin placements, the course can play anything up to 2 shots easier or more difficult. If when the course was rated it was rated from the competition tips...
So few people watch the Pro game, apart from a couple or 3 tournements a year. Making any changes won't make a difference to that. Just let them get on with it.
We already have quite strict club & ball limits in place now, that the game that millions of us lesser mortals play won't be getting...