PGA Prez wants to change scorecard designs
Has anybody anywhere ever not played the forward tees because it's on the bottom of the card? What a ludicrous thing to be concerned about. You could put it at the very top of the card, with tees listed in ascending order, and people would still play the same tees.
“That small little token is the first thing women see when they see a scorecard. We’re on the bottom and you’re on the top, which is not great.”
“What we have to accomplish in the game is kind of a new set of mores and norms,” Whaley said. “The scorecard typically has the four back tees at the top and the two forward tees at the bottom. Why is that? Why aren’t they all together? Who is going to go to the forward tees if it’s below on the card? Why don’t we just have every tee box at the top and choose the tee where you want to play?"
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Taking it another step further, Whaley would like to see double-par as an option on some scorecards as a secondary level of accomplishment for beginning players.
“If you’re starting the game and you see 3-4-5-3-4-5 and you go 9-10-8-9-10-8, you pretty much think you stink,” Whaley said. “You just don’t have it yet. You’re learning how to get there. If you put ‘Your par on a par-3 is 6,’ and we can reach double par on any hole, we can really reach some progress.”
Has anybody anywhere ever not played the forward tees because it's on the bottom of the card? What a ludicrous thing to be concerned about. You could put it at the very top of the card, with tees listed in ascending order, and people would still play the same tees.
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