Why all the testosterone?

People, unless your close to a scratch golfer, why do you insist on playing from the back tees? If you wanna improve your score and have more fun, just move up! My average bad drive still goes like 275 and i play forward, i see it all the time, most of the time if your even lucky enough to reach the fairway, its pretty crooked anyway, would you rather hit driver, 3wood, than 40 yard pitch, or driver, 6 iron, at worse little chip? Maybe its just me but it seems really stupid to set yourself up for failure right from the start!

People, unless your close to a scratch golfer, why do you insist on playing from the back tees? If you wanna improve your score and have more fun, just move up! My average bad drive still goes like 275 and i play forward, i see it all the time, most of the time if your even lucky enough to reach the fairway, its pretty crooked anyway, would you rather hit driver, 3wood, than 40 yard pitch, or driver, 6 iron, at worse little chip? Maybe its just me but it seems really stupid to set yourself up for failure right from the start!

Weird thread.

In our men's league the flights are setup via handicap. Championship flight and 1st flight play back everyone up one or two from there. IMO tee choice should be based on skill but you don't need to be near scratch to play back. A golfer that averages scores up to say 84ish isn't hitting too many shots that lead to trouble. Not all the guys in c-flight and 1st flight are long hitters and they still score decent.

I played with a guy in league Wed. that could crush it but he only hit a few good shots through what probably was 50+ strokes, 9 hole league. On the first hole he hit it into the greenside water hazard from the tee. I'm talking like Rory on a good day long is how far he hit it. Perfect high draw. I play back because I am in championship flight, we have to, my drive was 267. I was about 50 yards behind where his ball would have flown into the hazard. I hit a wedge on and made par. He dropped missed the green despite being much closer, chipped on and 3 putted for triple. This went on hole after hole. He only made one par and it was dumb luck he pitched it to kick in range on a par 3.

Wouldn't have mattered what tees he played because he sucked but he was in 3rd flight so he was up from me. We have a few money holes and for his flight long drive skin was on a 292 yard par 4 that plays longer because the elevation gain is around fifty feet. He hit it hole high about 50 yards right of the green. The next hole is 364 yards. He sliced one OB but hit his next one close enough to the green he could have putted it, he chose to chip it and duffed it. This guy was grey hair old too, never seen anything like it.

I don't play the back tees, though I probably could on some courses. I'm directionally challenged, not distance challenged, so as long as the back tees only add length I'd typically be fine. However, if the back tees bring in more hazards and OB then it would definitely cause me problems.

When you're in a situation like that guy, hitting the ball way long and getting into all sorts of trouble because of length, I think it's time to break out a shorter club like a 4 or 5 iron for tee shots. If he's playing the shorter tees, this might be a better option for him.

Well it's funny because I hit 71% fairways on my last round and still sucked. Drives were long. It was the shots between the drives and the green.