Like it or loathe it, the new World Handicap System has been the trigger of major change to our sport. One of the essential elements of its introduction was the need to measure every golf course in the UK and give it a slope rating.
As a consequence, many golf courses saw this as an opportunity to re-think tee positions, adjust or add extra tees, as inevitably, once measured the likelihood would be that new tee markers, scorecards and so on would be produced at significant cost to the club.
