Jack Nicklaus back in the day said on a course all golfers on a par 3 or 4 golfers should be hitting a similar iron into the green. Ego the different tees. Golf magazine states Essentially, you just take the distance you hit your 5 iron and multiply it by 36. Problem is there're a lot of golfers who think they hit the ball further than they do. If everyone would go to Top Golf or somewhere there's a good Launch Monitor to see their actually yardages there would be a lot of folks moving up a tee. Good example how many time have you waited behind a group who's waiting for the green to clear on a 260 plus par 4 then watch as everyone hits their tee shot less than 200 yards.