Yes, but your 92 would not have been replaced by a 97 (unless you had some serious nett double bogey adjustments). Your 92 was probably something like your 8th best score, and it was replaced by something very close to that, which was previously your 9th best score.
We certainly don't do that, not aware of any around us that do. Simply, comps off back tees during main season, yellow tees in winter.
Presumably this suits you though? You have posted before about preferring golf off yellow tees now. I'd be using the yellow tees if that was an option at my place.
It actually don’t suit me at all LT, in fact it has screwed me head up. Reason being, last year I got 19 shots of whites and 18 of yellows. With just the one comp I get 23 off whites and 19 off yellows.
That don’t change the fact that I have been rammel off the tees.I lost three balls from my drives on Tuesday. That’s six shots reloading. Yet off the yellows they are safe as the drive takes the ball past the danger areas. Oddly enough a PP mentioned on Tuesday that he has not played any course where the difference off the tees between whites and yellows are as large as ours on some of the tees it is 30 yards. Again is that the norm. Am off to the course in half an hour. Am going off the yellows.
watch the “I played today thread” later.
I think there concerns re moving up a division is they may get an extra shot or so but the higher handicappers get more shots so less of a chance of winning?
Personally, I'm not a fan of having players playing off different tees in the same comp. Sure, maybe a once in a blue moon event, but not regular.
Does not happen where I play.
BIB…where do the extra shots come from? In a mixed tee competition at my place the balancing adjustment is a reduction in PH for playing off the forward tees - with the reduction being the rounded difference between the CRs for forward and back tees.
Ideally you would group people together in yellow tee and white tee groups. That would be fine. I agree, if you are moving between tees within a group, done that in mixed comps, then it does slow things down.
With qualifying rounds I don't think that would be that uncommon for a lot of us that play parkland courses. From mid October till the start of April we don't run any qualifier comps since the course is usually wet/frozen etc and we have fairway protection on then. Throw in the monsoon season we've had in the North East of England since the start of March and I've only got 7 qualifying scores this season so far, my other 13 are all from last year the last of which was on the 8th October 2022.
We ran 1 comp last year where you could go off the whites or yellows from what I can remember and I think the vast majority went off whites. I'm not sure if it was an ego thing or just what you are used to. At ours the whites are competition only, you can't use them if you are just having a friendly knock etc so I think some probably just went off whites because that's what they have always done. We have 5 par 3's and last week with a laser they measured 169, 208, 189, 195 and 162. I've played with some seniors that need their driver for 3 of them, I'm sure they would love the option to go off the yellows as it knocks about 20 yards off each of them.
