Tees

jimboddb

Just had a chat with a non-golfing buddy & he asked why we use wooden tees. Couldnt give him an answer, any ideas??

stockdam

Cheap, light, easy to make, don't damage the club-face.

I use plastic ones though.

geurrp the yard

jimboddb wrote: »

Just had a chat with a non-golfing buddy & he asked why we use wooden tees. Couldnt give him an answer, any ideas??

Becuase they always break meaning you buy more, so more revenue for the golf shop.

GreeBo

stockdam wrote: »

don't damage the club-face.

Has anyone ever found a tee that did damage their clubface? I often see this mentioned on the blurb of some of the fancy new tee designs and always wondered; is anyone making tees that are damaging??

Par72

Greenkeepers prefer that golfers use wooden tees as apparently the plastic jobbies can damage the mowing equipment.

GreeBo

Par72 wrote: »

Greenkeepers prefer that golfers use wooden tees as apparently the plastic jobbies can damage the mowing equipment.

Hmm I havent heard that and would find it hard to believe...
A mower blade will slice through a plastic tee easier than a wooden tee.

Wooden tees made sense when you had wooden clubs...now they are just a waste of money and leave a mess.

Miley Byrne

I played somewhere once that only sold wooden tees. I was looking for the short plastic ones that are handy for par 3s but they told me in the pro shop that they don't sell any plastic tees because they are not biodegradable .

retiefgoosen!

GreeBo wrote: »

Wooden tees, now they are just a waste of money and leave a mess.

How do wooden tees make more a mess than plastic ones?
Surely plastic and wooden ones make an equal amount of mess.
Wood is of course cleaner in a bio-degradable sense, but that doesn't count as a wooden tee would surely take many years to degrade...

GreeBo

retiefgoosen! wrote: »

How do wooden tees make more a mess than plastic ones?
Surely plastic and wooden ones make an equal amount of mess.
Wood is of course cleaner in a bio-degradable sense, but that doesn't count as a wooden tee would surely take many years to degrade...

Well because wooden tees break far more than plastic ones do.
Thus you end up with bits of broken wooden tees scattered around the tee box where as 99% of the time the plastic one goes in your pocket.

Wooden tees will degrade but IMO the sheer volume of them makes them less enviro friendly. Apparently you get ~200k tees from a tree.

retiefgoosen!

GreeBo wrote: »

Well because wooden tees break far more than plastic ones do.
Thus you end up with bits of broken wooden tees scattered around the tee box where as 99% of the time the plastic one goes in your pocket.

Correct.
Which is why it is likely that most players use plastic ones, so therefore plastic ones make more of a mess surely?
Circular logic

JCDUB

I use the wooden ShorTEEs ones, the shortest red ones, have had the same bag for around 2 years, they never ever break, great tees.

I would tend to go for wooden ones for the environmental aspect. I reckon the plastic ones break just as easily as the wooden ones I use.

PeterJamesDoyle

Have any of you tried the Brush Tees? They're too big to lose on the teebox, and offer less resistance through impact. Less likely to damage the face. Come in different heights too.
Don't mind chopping down trees to make tees once they plant 3 for every one the destroy.

Mister Sifter

Weren't the first golf tees made out of rubber? Crazy Scots...

Have never been a fan of plastic tees. Anyone else used to get those plastic xmas tree shaped things full of them at Xmas?

PhilipMarlowe

If nobody used wooden ones then we wouldn't need as many trees, just more plastics factories

Curran

Im not a fan of plastic tees - dont know why - just something I have in my head!! Actually - apart from a certain sized castle type, cos its the perfect height for my Driver

What I dont understand is people who use wooden tees and give out about how they always break - fair enough, but when they do, they throw them to one side and deem it useless!!
I always pick up the top half of a broken tee up - can be used for the par 3's, or when hitting a 3/5 wood, or even on a windy day to keep drives low!!
When I start around of golf, I stick 4/5 new tees and the same of broken from the previous game - not often have I had to go to the bag for more tees - have a pocket full of half tees!

PeterJamesDoyle

Ever reached in and end up with one of these broken tees under your fingernail?

Curran

PeterJamesDoyle wrote: »

Ever reached in and end up with one of these broken tees under your fingernail?

Funny you should say that - hasnt happened too often - but for the last few games Ive played, at least once in the round, I've been stabbed by a brand new tee - and it was kinda sore each time!! Im not very hard!!

Mister Sifter

Curran wrote: »

Im not a fan of plastic tees - dont know why - just something I have in my head!! Actually - apart from a certain sized castle type, cos its the perfect height for my Driver

What I dont understand is people who use wooden tees and give out about how they always break - fair enough, but when they do, they throw them to one side and deem it useless!!

I throw them to the side of the tee box. Rather than have them in my pocket i'd rather just pick one up at the side of a tee box when i need one.

Curran

Fair point!