Black, White, Yellow - which for you?

[IanG]

We now have a red tee on our 11th cut up on the bank overlooking the beach/sea as an alternative to the forward red tee which rather took the joy out of the hole. I know that didn't exist when Karen played there in March.

We also have the red tee (on 16) behind the blue (=yellow) box which the gents play off in social games - par 4s on both cards. Go figure. The same is true on 17 but at least 17 is a par 5 for the ladies and a 4 for the gents.

 

[CMAC]

I think the big problem is that they are referred to as the 'ladies' tees. Over here the tees are referred to by colour and every tee box has a rating for both men and women. So for instance if you wanted to play from the white tees with me your rating would be 78/140, I would be playing 71.3/125.

I have been in the course playing and in my group once 2 of us played off the back, 1 off whites and 1 off yellows. But because of the slope rating all our handicaps got adjusted accordingly and we played against each other without a problem. This did throw up some interesting things. The old boy playing from the yellows was always alongside me on the fairway most holes as he had a 50/60 yard head start, which made things more sociable because someone is not waiting on his own 50 yards behind you for the green to clear.

I would love to see them adopt this slope and rating system back in the UK.

agreed, much better system imo and more reflective of someones handicap