Par 3's - Tee or no Tee ?

[RGDave]

Tee it up - but not too high. Just - and I mean just - above the turf.
I see so many playing partners teeing up on a 150 yarder with those blue castle tees and wondering why they get a poor strike.

Yes....I know this! I use the blue castles for a 3 wood.

Blue castles for a mid-iron, not good......

I like the tiny orange ones, if you push them in properly, you can't see the ball on a tee peg, it sits like the worlds most friendly lie.....

If I had my way, these baby ones would be acceptable for use off muddy winter fairways.

 

[TonyN]

To all those who said no tee, do you not take advantage of prefered lies through ou winter?

When I first took the game up, I made a point of not using a tee on par 3's so I learnt how to hit the shot properly and take a divot. No I can do that, I will put a tee in so the ball is the tiniest bit above the deck.

 

[Cernunnos]

Do I take advantage of prefered lay in winter? ... Rarely.

Though like yourself I do generally tee up on parr3 holes though barely.

But this brings me onto one of my pet hates. Its where golf courses cannot be bothered to maintain tee boxes properly. Played a course not long ago that had very well maintained & clossly cropped greens, but where it came to teeing off, the boxes resembled the first cut of rough & meant teeing up more than I like to & it showed.

 

[Fore]

I always use a tee on Par 3'S whether it is a long or short hole. Mainly a consistency thing.
Red Castle PW-6 iron.
Blue Castle 5-3 irons and Fairway woods.
As recommended by Tiger in his book.

 

[Cernunnos]

Used to use a blue for fairway woods, but find the little red ones are better for fairway woods hybrids & irons.

Generally these days, I'll set my tee somewhere between the red & the orange in height. Hence why I tend not to use castle tees. Though I'll admit they are a convinient way of getting a dependable repeatable height with a tee, especially for those just starting the game. Or in winter or when ground conditions are so hard you'd struggle to get a tee in.

Personally in mid summer when the ground is hard, there is nothing to compare with compressing the ball off the teebox turf. Depends how I see the shot I may push a tee right downinto a well manacured teebox if a little softer going to give an advantage & if the teebox is wooly, then raising up the ball a little further to clear the grass unfortunatly would have to be the order of the day.

Wooly teeboxes are a pet hate.