The PGA Show 2014 highlights some interesting ways to keep yourself excited during your round of golf. On the PGA Show official website, Dick Raber has found a cure for members tired of playing the same course day after day, year after year.
Raber, a PGA assistant professional and instructor at Bartlett Hills Golf Club in Bartlett, Ill., regularly encourages members to use his version of TEE IT FORWARD, the industry-wide initiative that encourages all golfers to play the course at a length that is aligned with their abilities off the tee.
Raber fills a pouch with three colored tees that match the colors of the tee boxes at Bartlett Hills: red, white and blue. Before teeing off, a tee pulled out of the pouch determines what tee box is used. That tee is then left out of the pouch until all three tees have been pulled. That allows a three-hole rotation of red, white and blue tees, which creates multiple course setups within a single routing.
“I think you can really make a single golf course much more enjoyable that way,” he says. “You can make it three or four different courses.”
Raber got the idea when playing in a local tournament years ago. He says the tournament organizer caught him off-guard by moving the teeing ground way forward, bringing a hazard into play that he never envisioned would be an issue. Raber says playing different tees has a similar effect, getting members thinking more deeply about the strategy of each hole.
“It is an innovative way to get people to change their (tee box) color. When you play the same tees every day, you just hit the ball and know where it goes. You always do the same thing,” Raber says. “Why don’t you rotate the tees? The more tees the course has, the more variety you can have.”
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