Driving Tee Height

[Imurg]

Joe Miller Tees it high - really high!
My swing needs a lower fee.
At the first Kings of Distance, the fitter showed me the LM data.
By teeing high I was hitting too high up the face.
Teeing up just under a thumb height gave the best results.
Experiments to d a height that works and stick with it.

Tee too high and you might "Monk-It"....

 

[Robobum]

Pink Castles are out of order!!!!

Fixed that for you.

 

[Dan2501]

Never seen a Pro use castle tee. Nice white wooden tees are the way to go. tee it lower for a little fade, higher for a draw.

Coach Lockey uses the pink castle.

 

[bobmac]

I only know one GOOD golfer who uses castle tees for his driver.
I'm sure he won't mind me mentioning his name but I won't just in case.......not on his nelly

 

[delc]

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I only know one GOOD golfer who uses castle tees for his driver.
I'm sure he won't mind me mentioning his name but I won't just in case.......not on his nelly

Surely the advantage of a castle tee is that they give a consistent height above the ground. They are also almost indestructible, so cheaper in the long run than long wooden tees, which tend to break the first or second time you use them.

 

[bobmac]

Surely the advantage of a castle tee is that they give a consistent height above the ground.

I'm quite capable of teeing my ball up the same height with a straight plastic tee.

They are also almost indestructible, so cheaper in the long run than long wooden tees, which tend to break the first or second time you use them.

See above.

I'm well aware that using castle tees helps lots of people so bash on, they're just not for me

 

[Jimaroid]

I see plenty of regulars using castle tees and it's true that they're consistent but not in a good way.

And as an aside, they're almost all infuriatingly useless at seeing where their ball landed because they're more concerned about finding the tee than watching the ball! It's like they'd rather lose a £2 ball than a 1p tee.

 

[TheCaddie]

I see plenty of regulars using castle tees and it's true that they're consistent but not in a good way.

And as an aside, they're almost all infuriatingly useless at seeing where their ball landed because they're more concerned about finding the tee than watching the ball! It's like they'd rather lose a £2 ball than a 1p tee.

Why not in a good way?

 

[garyinderry]

Tee it high, let it fly... tee it low.... well I dont know the rhyme for that.



I prefer to tee it high most of the time. If it is really blooming tight I find I can hit it a little straighter with the ball teed low.

 

[Paul77]

Does anyone remember all the marketing around tees years ago? Apparently standard tees caused drag when the ball left them so the brush tee was born. I don't see much of that anymore, but when I stopped playing in 2005 they had you think you were at a disadvantage if you didn't reduce drag off the tee.

I just use the big white wooden ones, that way you can set the height when needed. Any iron shots I just dig in any broken ones I find lying around. so the ball is just sitting level with the top cut of grass on the tee box.

 

[Jimaroid]

Why not in a good way?

All struggle with flight and direction.

Most setup badly with combinations of; ball too far back, weight too far forward, overly strong grips, etc. A consistent tee height won't stop what a bad setup causes.

 

[Dan2501]

That's bad golf though, has nothing to do with the tee. A consistent tee height certainly doesn't make things worse!

 

[TheCaddie]

That's bad golf though, has nothing to do with the tee. A consistent tee height certainly doesn't make things worse!

That's what I was thinking!

 

[cleanstrike]

That's bad golf though, has nothing to do with the tee. A consistent tee height certainly doesn't make things worse!

He already knows that. He's just making that case as a reason to justify not using a tee that he secretly thinks is for cissies.

 

[TheCaddie]

He already knows that. He's just making that case as a reason to justify not using a tee that he secretly thinks is for cissies.

I didn't know Jimaroid had a puppet?

 

[Jimaroid]

He already knows that. He's just making that case as a reason to justify not using a tee that he secretly thinks is for cissies.

Ha! Actually I'm a big believer in using what works but in this case the castle tees don't help who I'm see use them.

They setup badly to the ball and have then decided that a castle tee is the right height. And in a way they're correct, it's the right height for them to consistently hit down on the ball, create too much spin and miss fairways.

Tee height should fit good setup. Don't fit your setup around your tee height.

 

[Dan2501]

The tee is causing them no problems though. They could use a wooden tee and they would have exactly the same issues. It's like saying I've seen a lot of people using Titleist NXT Tour's who suck, that ball must be useless. Nothing to do with the ball, they're just useless. Using bad players as a reason against using a certain type of tee is baffling. I'd bet that there's as many rubbish players that use "normal" tees as there is using castle ones..

 

[delc]

Tee it high, let it fly... tee it low.... well I dont know the rhyme for that.

Tee it high and watch it fly (down wind). Tee it low to beat the blow (into wind).

 

[garyinderry]

That may well be it del :rofl:

 

[One Planer]

Tee it high and watch it fly (down wind). Tee it low to beat the blow (into wind).

What if there's no wind? :mmm: