Our three courses have been attempting to incorportate elements of the Tee it Forward initiative and the Get Golf Ready ideas that the PGA has been touting for a couple of years. Many courses across the country have been trying to figure out how to get more players into the game of golf. One of our local courses, not one of ours, has developed a program to get people interested in playing the game. Monarch Dunes has a 12 hole challenge course designed by Damian Pascuzzo and Steve Pate. The original design of this par 3 course was to allow skilled and unskilled players to compete against one another playing not only from different tees, but playing to different holes based upon difficulty. One of our members, Tom Elliot, of the Central California chapter of Golf Course Superintendents has taken this idea to another level in an attempt to create and develop more golfers.
Have a look at the following video:
Tom's idea is creative and I love his alterego seen in the video! If this idea works all of our local courses will need to thank Tom and his staff as we will all benefit from their efforts to grow the game. Hopefully this post will spawn other ideas that courses across the world can use to grow the best game on earth.
GOLF IS A GREAT SPORT!!
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