9/18 - First Annual Sand Trap "Forward Tees Tournament"

Guys,

I'm pleased to announce the first ever "Forward Tees Tournament." The rules are simple.

On Saturday, September 18 (9/18, get it?), forum members (and anyone they can round up) will play a round of golf from the most forward tees they're man enough to play. The further forward, the better!

Go on - be a forward thinker. (Okay, that was lame.)

Playing a round from the farthest tees forward that you're man enough to play will:

1. Open your eyes to a new experience. You'll see your favorite golf course as you've likely never seen it before, and you'll face new challenges, new hazards, new sights, and new decisions.
2. Provide for some interesting statistics. See below...
3. Be fun! You might hit some par fives in two (or with short irons), you might have a chance to drive several par fours, and it's fun to have lots of chances for eagle, birdie, and par!

To Participate

1. Post a message in this thread. Subscribe to it as well with daily or even instant notification.
2. Post the name of the course you'll be playing, as well as the rating/slope from the tees you normally play, the rating/slope from the tees you WILL play, and your average score from your last 10 to 20 rounds from the tees you normally play.
3. Post what you think you'll shoot from the forward tees.
4. Post who you'll be playing with.

Stats
We'd like to gather some statistics from this round, so please post the stats above. We'll probably ask for them again on the 18th and onward - along with what you actually shot - so that we can do some number crunching. We'll post the results as an article on the main site.

Play with a Sand Trap Member
The 18th is over two weeks away, so I encourage you to use that time to find some fellow Sand Trap members to play with. Your regular foursome is fine, but if you can use this "tournament" as an opportunity to meet some fellow STers, go for it!

Winners
Since we can't verify anything, we won't have traditional gross or net winners. Drawing may be random (or I have some other ideas planned, but none are related to what you actually shoot). At the very least we'll hand out some licenses to Scorecard to certain participants. Just be honest and post your score... I have a feeling that the cumulative results will be interesting.

Next year perhaps we'll turn this into some sort of annual fundraiser, perhaps for breast cancer or something...

Sign up below.

Edit: If your course has "kid tees" or a set of tees that are so short they'd render the course into a par three layout or something, don't play those tees. Play tees where you can still hit driver occasionally (even if it's perhaps stupid to do so) and tees which are still somewhat of a full length... like around 4500 yards minimum or so.

Edit Two: If you can't play on the 18th, play on the 17th or 19th or 20th. Just try to play around that date and post your here so we can accumulate the data.

I'm in!

I normally shoot 74 from the tees rated 73.9/144 at Whispering Woods and 72.5 from the tees rated 72.3/136 at Lake View CC.

The yellow tees at Whispering Woods are rated 67.0/126 for men, so I imagine the red tees, which I'll play if I play at WWGC, are about 66/120.
The white tees at Lake View are rated 68.6/126 for men, so I imagine the red tees, which I'll play if I play at LVCC, are about 67/120.
(I might play the yellow and white tees, though, so the numbers are accurate.)

My putting and short game is pretty good, and I can reasonably control hybrids and irons and, on the occasions I'll use them, fairway woods and drivers from the tee, so I think I can shoot 68. I'm adding a shot or two over the course ratings (as a scratch golfer) because I'll probably hit it into some really unfamiliar spots.