GOOD TO KNOW Any player can create his or her own “combo” tees and still post fairly by using a little-known set of charts in the USGA’s Handicap Manual, Section 5-2(g). Say you’re playing the whites but can’t make a 200-yard carry over water on one or two of the holes, so you step up to play the reds. Simply note the yardage differential and consult the chart to see how to adjust downward the course rating and slope. The same trick works if you want to step back a tee—say, on that elevated, scenic par-3—only you’ll be adjusting upward. Find the manual online at
www.usga.org.
Susan Fornoff is the publisher and editorial voice of GottaGoGolf, a new digital magazine catering to women who play golf for fun.
nal roadblocks in a post on
USGA.com—everything from “I paid $100 and I want to play the whole course” to “You’re trying to make the game too easy, and it’s supposed to be hard.” But there’s one attitude
that screams out for more education. It’s the idea that the player who moves up is suddenly going to experi- ence a nauseating drop in handicap certain to result in turbulence during tourna- ment golf. “I truly think most
people are afraid that their handicap index is going to go down,” Erskine said. “Which means they don’t understand the handicap system. Obviously, your course handicap is going to go down (playing the shorter distance). But when you post from the shorter tees, your index is not going to fall because the ratings of those tees reflect the shorter distance.”
Cowan suggests that
clubs begin to take the “Tee It Forward” initia- tives to the next level by using different sets of tees in a tournament setting. “You can have a fair net tournament from differ- ent sets of tees,” he said. “If a set of tees isn’t
rated, that’s because the course never asked for it, because there wasn’t a demand for it. But now, clubs are asking.” Note: It doesn’t cost
a Northern California golf course anything to have tees rated (for men by the NCGA, for women at private courses by the WGANC and for women at public courses by the Pacific Women’s Golf Association). So if you’d like to have another set of tees rated, ask golf course management to request it the next time ratings teams visit.
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