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http://www.longleafteesystem.com Essentially, the Longleaf Tee System is a system that uses seven or even eight sets of tees per hole based on driving distance: If you drive it 100 yards, you play from the #1 tees. This works out to about 3100 yards for 18 holes. Drive it 250, and the #7 tees are probably suitable for you, at about 6800 yards. Often doing this only means that the course has to install a few new tee markers in the fairways or mow down some areas in the rough, for the shorter three sets of tees, yet this can greatly aid new players in taking up the game. Sometimes a course will do something like this, and call them "family tees" or something, but the Longleaf system is a really, really solid way to codify this and create somewhat of a standard. They also recommend you do something as simple as this on your practice range: And they allow for "half" versions of the tees, creating even more playing lengths, with a simple arrow system: For example, @NatalieB drove the ball about 150 yards a few years ago, so she'd play the #2 tees, but as she grew a bit, she'd graduate to the "2.5" tees and play a mixture of #2 and #3, before moving on to the #3 tees. Or, on days when it's soggy, she could go back to the #2 tees, and on firm days, even play the "3.5" tees if she was getting a lot of roll. The beauty of this is multifold: It's really inexpensive. Often just some new tee markers. It gets everyone involved in the game, yet it still feels like golf rather than just "oh, tee off from about here, kiddo." It's standardized and will spread throughout the game, letting juniors compete and learn the game from similar distances at multiple courses. It lets you play against your kids in a fair, standardized way, and lets your kids compete against each other, from an early age. Or compete against themselves. Whatever they're competing against, the standardized nature lends credence to their accomplishments, as they can say "I broke 90 from the #2 tees today!" So, does your course support the Longleaf system? I suspect few will, but I hope more will over time.
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What a great idea. I love it, and I hope more country clubs and courses with junior memberships or junior programs create locker rooms for junior golfers.
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Introducing Alina to Our Beautiful Game
onthehunt526 posted a blog entry in Journey to the Center of the Green
My daughter Alina is almost 2 and a half, she has a couple of clubs, and she tries to mimic my swing. She kind of holds the club like a long putter (The way she holds it, actually is legal) I didn't start playing golf until I was 10. Alina has a huge head start on me as she started actually attempting to hit the ball at 15 months. The good thing is she actually is enthusiastic about playing golf with me... but I only take her to hit balls, if she asks me to... Wouldn't want her to do something she didn't want to do, I'm waiting a little bit until she has a little more coordination to try to teach her basic fundamentals. But she's into it, at that is a great thing... Alina at 15 months with her first putter.
