Say what?

[GreiginFife]

http://www.snaintongolf.co.uk/blog/instruction/basics/different-tee-colours

I like Snainton as a shop but as the thread title... Say What?

Never seen anyone jump about tees let alone yellow tees being called gold tees and being anything other than the 'tees of the day'....

I feel I may have missed some unwritten sub-context to this somehow.

 

[garyinderry]

They have got gold and yellow tees mixed up.


Gold in some clubs are the very back tees.


Clearly a non-golfer put this bit of information together.

 

[garyinderry]

Lol @ white tees for beginners.

 

[SVB]

from the same site: "Red tees are traditionally referred to as ‘ladies tees’, although this is an archaic term in modern play, for lady golfers are more than capable of playing the same tees as men"

Mmm - controversial - will we see a mixed medal where all the field play from the same tees?

On a similar line, men normally move back one tee for general play to comps, typically yellow to white or sometimes to blue/black/gold etc (accepting some clubs allow play from any tee all the time, let's not go down that one!) This means that for comps the challenge is a little greater than for 'normal play' requiring a club or two more sometimes or a slightly trickier line etc etc - fine.

Why does the same not apply to the ladies game. If we move away from fixed ladies tees, and simply have a range of tees from forward to back then for a comp everyone moves back one. What do the girls think? Do some of the best courses already do this and have a red++ colour and simply the forces of numbers (or lack there-of) has stopped this becoming wide-spread?

Thoughts?

S

 

[GreiginFife]

Lol @ white tees for beginners.

That was the one that confused me the most. Wouldnt put a beginner off the whites on our 7th up the hill, 200yrds just to clear the scrub and get to the 1st cut.

 

[garyinderry]

That was the one that confused me the most. Wouldnt put a beginner off the whites on our 7th up the hill, 200yrds just to clear the scrub and get to the 1st cut.

Office temp or the web designer has knocked this page together on a Friday afternoon. Load of rubbish!

 

[GreiginFife]

Office temp or the web designer has knocked this page together on a Friday afternoon. Load of rubbish!

Have to say the notion of moving about tees based on scoring would make for in interesting format. In fact next game I play with my normal bunch I think we may just do that... :rofl:

 

[North Mimms]

from the same site: "Red tees are traditionally referred to as ‘ladies tees’, although this is an archaic term in modern play, for lady golfers are more than capable of playing the same tees as men"

Mmm - controversial - will we see a mixed medal where all the field play from the same tees?

On a similar line, men normally move back one tee for general play to comps, typically yellow to white or sometimes to blue/black/gold etc (accepting some clubs allow play from any tee all the time, let's not go down that one!) This means that for comps the challenge is a little greater than for 'normal play' requiring a club or two more sometimes or a slightly trickier line etc etc - fine.

Why does the same not apply to the ladies game. If we move away from fixed ladies tees, and simply have a range of tees from forward to back then for a comp everyone moves back one. What do the girls think? Do some of the best courses already do this and have a red++ colour and simply the forces of numbers (or lack there-of) has stopped this becoming wide-spread?

Thoughts?

S

I think the tee colours here in UK are fairly standardised with blue, white, yellow and red, but are all clubs like that?
Some also have tees forward of the reds- often green which I have heard referred to as "seniors tees, juniors tees and I haven't a clue tees"

In the US, colours are more varied and a lot of courses will have 5 or six tees.
On the card, red and green are marked with ladies SI, the others- white /gold/blue/black/silver/teal (!) with the mens SI.
However for social golf there are often recommendations as to which tees to use, based on gender and hcp.
I normally ignore these as they often suggest white tees for ladies of my hcp and I can't manage the carries!

 

[garyinderry]

from the same site: "Red tees are traditionally referred to as ‘ladies tees’, although this is an archaic term in modern play, for lady golfers are more than capable of playing the same tees as men"

Mmm - controversial - will we see a mixed medal where all the field play from the same tees?

On a similar line, men normally move back one tee for general play to comps, typically yellow to white or sometimes to blue/black/gold etc (accepting some clubs allow play from any tee all the time, let's not go down that one!) This means that for comps the challenge is a little greater than for 'normal play' requiring a club or two more sometimes or a slightly trickier line etc etc - fine.

Why does the same not apply to the ladies game. If we move away from fixed ladies tees, and simply have a range of tees from forward to back then for a comp everyone moves back one. What do the girls think? Do some of the best courses already do this and have a red++ colour and simply the forces of numbers (or lack there-of) has stopped this becoming wide-spread?

Thoughts?

S

Pretty sure there would be a number of women at most clubs who would jumps at the chance of having a full course handicap that would allow them to play in the men's comps.

 

[Slab]

I think this may be written/lifted from the USofA

The tee colors (see what I did there) seem to match what some courses there use

 

[Jimaroid]

Not having a standardised tee colour scheme has always struck me as a bit odd considering everything else is ruled for in golf. It's something that I find frustrating when reading about people's course experiences as it's never clear if it's a shorter or longer tee position.

 

[rosecott]

Not having a standardised tee colour scheme has always struck me as a bit odd considering everything else is ruled for in golf. It's something that I find frustrating when reading about people's course experiences as it's never clear if it's a shorter or longer tee position.

CONGU have done their best to encourage a standardised colour scheme but some clubs would rather go their own way.

The CONGU recommendation in order of decreasing length is:

Black, White, Yellow, Red, Blue/Green.

 

[GreiginFife]

I think this may be written/lifted from the USofA

The tee colors (see what I did there) seem to match what some courses there use

Lazy stuff from a UK based professional organisation (see what I did there??)

 

[williamalex1]

We have red ladies tees, white mens tees, blue mens tees, yellow boys tees .
Ive seen a few reddish ladies , a lot of white men, the odd yellowish boy and a few blue nosed men. :rofl:

 

[North Mimms]

Someone has read this thread, as the page has now been removed!

Pretty sure there would be a number of women at most clubs who would jumps at the chance of having a full course handicap that would allow them to play in the men's comps.

Not quite the same thing, but my club has recently created a ladies "championship" course which (confusingly having seen the CONGU recommendations in Rosecotts post) is called the Green course.

We have a separate card for it (ie a computer print out!) and we are about to get tee blocks painted
It is based on the existing red/yellow/white/blue tees.
EG we play the 1st from the yellow tees, 2nd from white, some from the red, others from the blue (very back tees)
A former hard par 4 is a slightly easier par 5 from the blues. Another easy par 5 is still played off the red tees, but is now a harder par 4.
The SIs have been reassessed and the course approved by .... whoever the relevant body is!
It has SSS of 74 rather than the 72 that our red course has.
Some holes are harder, others just need different course management.

It's nice to have a slightly different course to play

 

[FairwayDodger]

Someone has read this thread, as the page has now been removed!


Not quite the same thing, but my club has recently created a ladies "championship" course which (confusingly having seen the CONGU recommendations in Rosecotts post) is called the Green course.

We have a separate card for it (ie a computer print out!) and we are about to get tee blocks painted
It is based on the existing red/yellow/white/blue tees.
EG we play the 1st from the yellow tees, 2nd from white, some from the red, others from the blue (very back tees)
A former hard par 4 is a slightly easier par 5 from the blues. Another easy par 5 is still played off the red tees, but is now a harder par 4.
The SIs have been reassessed and the course approved by .... whoever the relevant body is!
It has SSS of 74 rather than the 72 that our red course has.
Some holes are harder, others just need different course management.

It's nice to have a slightly different course to play

Would be great if more courses had women's competition tees but we are usually the poor relations in matters like that, for a variety of reasons.

I recently played from the women's championship tees at Gleneagles (green if anyone is interested) and loved it. A much more challenging course than from the reds but with women's par and SSS.

If it were up to me, I'd get a women's par and SSS assessed from the white tees at my course and play all our comps from there. sadly, it's not up to me and few of the other ladies would agree!

 

[North Mimms]

Would be great if more courses had women's competition tees but we are usually the poor relations in matters like that, for a variety of reasons.

I recently played from the women's championship tees at Gleneagles (green if anyone is interested) and loved it. A much more challenging course than from the reds but with women's par and SSS.

If it were up to me, I'd get a women's par and SSS assessed from the white tees at my course and play all our comps from there. sadly, it's not up to me and few of the other ladies would agree!

We had considered just gettting the men's white or yellow tees assessed for a ladies course, but some of them would be really hard unless you are really long off the tee.
This is a decent way of getting a "second" course which is still playable for mid hcp players

 

[williamalex1]

We had considered just gettting the men's white or yellow tees assessed for a ladies course, but some of them would be really hard unless you are really long off the tee.
This is a decent way of getting a "second" course which is still playable for mid hcp players

Aren't you allowed to play from the yellow tees in bounce games, don't see why you shouldn't be.

 

[FairwayDodger]

We had considered just gettting the men's white or yellow tees assessed for a ladies course, but some of them would be really hard unless you are really long off the tee.
This is a decent way of getting a "second" course which is still playable for mid hcp players

At my course, however, the overall length from the white tees is still relatively short by women's standards. A couple of the par 4s would be significantly longer but at least one of those would definitely become a par 5 for us.

 

[patricks148]

ours go;

Blue (6774)
White (6441)
Yellow (6140
Red (5735)

You can play from which ever tee's you like, though the blue are not left out that often.