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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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The TV program will show you the length they are playing. A recent tournament which was the shortest on the LPGA was 6,600 yds. This is a normal men's tee length (not the pros). So all the other courses are longer. So they are not moving the tees forward on all the holes. I too went to a course in Naples and was on the "drivable" par 4, but this was the only one set up so far forward.