FROM THE DIRECTOR OF GOLF OPERATIONS
New Tees for You
Jeff Hochman Director of Golf Operations
Change is Good The new forward tees on the Granite Falls South Course are important changes for all SCG golfers. Maybe for the first time, players can choose to play a course layout ideally suited to their physical abilities. With these new course layouts, what will change will be your enjoyment of the game of golf. However, we don’t want to promise too much. What about that nasty slice which occasionally put your ball in the desert or those bunker shots that didn’t land on the green? They probably won’t change just because you play from the new tees. The new modifications cannot replace lessons and practice. But we can give you a much better chance for success. Our courses are designed to challenge your golfing skills. We offer fine fairways located in a desert setting, some with sloping areas and many bunkers and lakes, surrounded by a well maintained 10
GRANITE FALLS SOUTH COURSE
NEW LAYOUT DISTANCES
LAYOUT BY TEE COLOR
LAYOUT'S OPTIMAL TOTAL DRIVING YARDS DISTANCE YARDS
Black
6,839
236
Black/Blue*
6,642
229
Blue
6,401
221
Blue/White*
6,047
209
White
5,831
201
White/Gold*
5,532
191
Gold
5,214
180
Gold/Red*
4,916
170
Red
4,676
161
Red/Orange*
4,320
149
Orange
4,050
140
*Layout for Combo Tees
rough. Not one of these features has been altered by the course’s new tee modifications. So what is the change? You will now have more tee options with 11 layouts of different distances. The tee modifications are designed to allow you to play those same beautiful and challenging courses but from course layouts that are better suited to your evolving physical ability. This close match is important. For example, when you were six or seven years old you wanted to ride a bike. Your folks didn’t buy a racing bike for you because they knew you couldn’t reach the pedals. They gave you a bike with smaller wheels, just right for you. You rode and learned to balance, and you felt like one of the big kids. This smaller bike fit your physical abilities at that time. Now you can understand golf’s ongoing dilemma, which has endured for over a century. “Grow the Game” has become a mantra for the golf industry. To stay relevant, attracting new golfers is right up there with retaining existing players. But golf courses have lacked enough course layouts to accommodate golfers’ widely diverse physical capabilities and evolving golf skills. So the USGA* and ASGCA** along with a few local golf professionals spent time thinking about how to make golf
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