[Parks]

Alt anchors are great because they are cheap and give you a different way to play the hole, yes.

However, alt. pads add on-the-fly versatility. Two groups can be playing the course at the same time and they can play 18 different teepads. You can't do that with alt anchors unless you want to pony up the cash for baskets in the alt locations.

Look at Downriver or High Bridge. There aren't too many places to put alt. teepads that could make the course longer or harder. However, there are quite a few places where you could place alt. teepads to make the shots different or easier.

Alt pins work at both those courses because they revitalize a course that has been played hundreds of times by many players.

Red and easier courses are nice, but they simply don't get played enough to make them worth it for clubs to fund. Basically, if you want to make a course that will be well used in the long term, you want to at least plan the course out for an 18 hole white or blue course and then lay in the red tee pads. That way, if you are in the situation where we were just last year with funds in the treasury and no place to expand, you can go back in and add in the blue or white alt tees.

And there's still a better way than that to do it.