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**standaman** · 09-22-2009, 10:16 PM

I've lost some distance over the last couple years. Enough to irritate me and make playing 6,900 yard and up courses more difficult. I've been avoiding the tips at my home course because of it, but I don't like it. At all.

So I guess I know my limitations, but wish I didn't. Long hitting young people are starting to annoy me. I'm just as good a player as many of them, but can't play the same courses. No matter how you look at it, the guy with the 8i in his hand has an advantage over the guy swinging the 5i, all other things being equal. I can go back to the tips and my handicap stays the same because of the different rating and slope, but that doesn't satisfy me like the lower scores from more forward tees.

I fear I am becoming a grouchy old man at 48. Soon I'll sit on my porch and scream at kids to get off my lawn and the transformation will be complete.

Kevin

09-22-2009, 10:16 PM	#16
standaman Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 870 Senior Member	I've lost some distance over the last couple years. Enough to irritate me and make playing 6,900 yard and up courses more difficult. I've been avoiding the tips at my home course because of it, but I don't like it. At all. So I guess I know my limitations, but wish I didn't. Long hitting young people are starting to annoy me. I'm just as good a player as many of them, but can't play the same courses. No matter how you look at it, the guy with the 8i in his hand has an advantage over the guy swinging the 5i, all other things being equal. I can go back to the tips and my handicap stays the same because of the different rating and slope, but that doesn't satisfy me like the lower scores from more forward tees. I fear I am becoming a grouchy old man at 48. Soon I'll sit on my porch and scream at kids to get off my lawn and the transformation will be complete. Kevin
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