Moving UP to lower your handicap?

[MacDutch]

May this year I started playing backtee's because I had to in clubcompetition. It was horrible, went from shooting high and mid-eighties to +100. Lost the extra 3 shots when playing from backtee's the first 3 holes. Now, 4 months later I am used to it. Shooting mid and high eighties again. And dropped the handicap a bit (from 15 to 13.4). I am confident to end this season at 12.

Sometimes I play from the red tee's, which in my country are the normal womens tee's. They don't help me shooting lower scores. I think the reason is that I am (compared to others in my HCP-range) good at long distance, bad at pitching distance and good at chipping.

So there is no answer to your question other than that it depends on the abilities of the individual golfer. But I think it is a good thing to play different tee's (also women tee's) because it brings you in different situations at the same golfcourse.