For All Who Love the Game by Harvey Penick & Bud Shrake

Author:Harvey Penick & Bud Shrake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks

Women’s Tees

NEARLY EVERY GOLF course has at least two sets of tees for men. There are the championship tees way back, and twenty or so yards ahead are the regular tees for the average players. Many courses have still another set of tees farther ahead, to be used by seniors or high handicappers.

Which tees a man chooses to play from is up to his ego more than his ability in numerous cases.

But women usually have no choice.

The expert and the high handicapper, the senior and the child—all females must use what are called the women’s tees on most courses.

For most of golf’s history, it didn’t matter all that much that all women hit from the same tees.

Unless it had been raining, fairways were dry and hard. We didn’t start heavy watering of golf courses until after World War Two. The rough was sparse. The greens were open in front to accept run-up shots and happy bounces. The fairways were fairly free of bunkers in our part of the country, and the courses were not marred by artificial ponds.

A woman could hit her ball down the fairway and proceed advancing it toward the hole at a good clip if she had any ability at all.

But most of the courses that have been built since heavy watering started have been at the behest of real estate developers wanting water and canyons and long forced carries that make beautiful photos in the brochures.

With the watering, the rough grows thick, and many balls are lost. Designers surround the greens with bunkers or heavy rough collars, demanding a target shot.

The playing field is more unequal than ever when women of all abilities and ages are forced to use the same tees.

At Austin Country Club, architect Pete Dye gave us five sets of tees—two for women.

The golds are for championship play. The blues are for our better players who are not at the championship level. The greens are for average golfers. The whites are for both men and women. The reds are for women only.

Women should demand two sets of tees. Not only would it make the game more fun for the higher handicappers, it also would allow the players to move faster.

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