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Originally Posted by BrianW  My course is doing the opposite, making a par 5 into a par 4 by moving the tee up a little and making a par 4 into a long par 3 by moving the tee a little. |
I have seen some of the newer courses in our area (Lehigh Valley, PA) do the some of the same things. Only 1 course comes to mind that acutally change a hole (510 yard par 5 from the blues to a 440 yard par 4 from the blues). Most of the courses have been moving back the white tees back closer to the blues, while letting the black, senior and ladies tees alone.
My "home course" is already freaking hard enough. I don't think its that long, but its not an easy course. Silver Creek CC in Hellertown, PA. Don Ross design. Tight fairways, long par 3s, bunkers at the right distances. Gives you some breaks with some pretty simple par 5s, destroys you with some really tricky greens.
I think Brian's earlier post about the changing of the
clubs and balls is the bigger story. If you make the
clubs less effective in spinning the ball and make the balls not travel so far, you won't have to keep lengthing the courses. If 112 guys on tour have an
average drive OVER 280 yards, and you don't want to touch the technology, what else can you do but push the tees back. Even if all of your par 4s are 450 yards, that leaves most of these tour pros 170 yards or less for their approach. What, 7iron and under for a bunch of these guys.