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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
Many years ago, I attended an LPGA event on a relatively long golf course that I played regularly. I was surprised to see that the tee boxes they were using were not the pro tees, not the men's tees, and not even the women's tees. They had moved the tee boxes about 20 yards in front of the normal women's tee boxes. I think they select and design the LPGA courses to keep the scoring in line with the men's scoring to promote the game. They don't want to see women shooting in the 80's and 90's.
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I think "many years ago" is the key phrase in that post. I attend about 10 LPGA tournaments a year and I can tell you that is not the case now. Granted they are not going to make the women play 500 yard par 4's or 650 yard par 5's as they don't have the stregnth of men, but be assured they are NOT playing in front of the women's normal normal tees.