It's not Claire - it's the golf courses who are doing that in an effort to get men to be less sensitive about playing the forward tees. They are also mixing up the colors. I play many courses where the forward tees are now green. Let's be perfectly clear here - the men are the ones with the problem in this area.

Let's just call them the forward tees and be done with it.... I don't care what color the tees are that I play from as long as they are between 6500 and 6000 yards. Any less and I have to leave my driver in the bag too much and any more I have to play the par 3's as par 5's....

If I can wear a pink shirt, I can play the forward tees without feeling emasculated....Good Grief!

You usually do! http://www.thehackersparadise.com/fo...lies/clapp.gif

Not jilted, Thanks. Just aware of too many high-handicappers who belong there but insist on playing from further back. (Oh heck--should that be farther?)

One complaint I do have about forward tees is that there are virtually never any risk-reward decisions. There's just one way to play the hole. Maybe if courses were more interesteing from the forward tees, more people would play from them?

Wow, I didn't mean to hijack this thread. Forward tees it is. Now back the original subject.

I draw an imaginable line on the ground 1-2 feet from where my tee is and once I cross that line nothing short of Jesus coming back, or an atom bomb is gonna stop me. That being said sudden noises right at that crucial part of my downswing produce less than average shots but I can live with that since it doesn't happen all the time.

Amen and on top of that I firmly believe that if you play scratch golf or any other kind of golf, your score should remain about the same.

Also sometime's the red's or whatever ya'll call em are fun to play from, period! Know more people who have holed out on 3 par's from tee shot playing the "foremost-ess" tees they could find, myself included. And no matter how far you are a hole-in-one is a hole-in-one is a hole-in-one!*





*Speaking of "hole-in-one's" youtube Anthony Kim, never had that happen yet! http://www.thehackersparadise.com/fo...es/biggrin.png And what is more what on earth was that guy bending over for like that........? Prolly last time he EVER does that!