Rant : Tee boxes

[Cernunnos]

Now as we all know tee boxes on courses should be reletively level & closely cropped. Slight upturned saucer, general slight gradient front to back allowable.interesting how much more relaxed the golfing experience is when you get to a well maintained teeing ground to play your shot from, means for a much more ejoyable day.


Its dissapointing how many clubs, even those charging expensive green fees don't take enough care of their tee boxes. Its one of my pet hates along with finding unforked compacted sand in bunkers, no rakes, loosegrass cuttings left in great swathes in the rough.

Its also amazing how many clubs don't leave a sand box at the side of tee boxes so that players can fill in any divots they or any previous player has. made.

Its quite gratifying when you also find grass seed mixed in the sand for the repair of any divots too. Its proof the groundsmen/greenskeepers have pride in their jobs & the course they maintain.

 

[USER1999]

Yep, ours really let the course down. Not even close to being level.

Other pet hate with tee boxes is when it is 40 ft wide, but they put out the white markers 5 ft apart, so one little bit of the tee gets absolutely worn out. Particularly relevant as this is often crammed against one side, where if you fade, there is no shot, or stuck within 1" of the back, so if your pre-shot routine involves standing behind the ball and lining it up, there is no where to stand, leaving this uncomfortable feeling that you are misaligned, followed by a big hook.

Give me the whole width of the tee, and two club lengths room, it is not asking much!

 

[Cernunnos]

Yep, ours really let the course down. Not even close to being level.

Other pet hate with tee boxes is when it is 40 ft wide, but they put out the white markers 5 ft apart, so one little bit of the tee gets absolutely worn out. Particularly relevant as this is often crammed against one side, where if you fade, there is no shot, or stuck within 1" of the back, so if your pre-shot routine involves standing behind the ball and lining it up, there is no where to stand, leaving this uncomfortable feeling that you are misaligned, followed by a big hook.

Give me the whole width of the tee, and two club lengths room, it is not asking much!

Thing is the reason for that is so the grounds people can move the pegs/markers about during the day and from day to day.Problem being some just leave them where they are.

Really, if we were to arrive at a club at say 8-30 in the morning & the first tee pegs were where they were the previous day we should really complain at the club house or pro shop.

The other niggle is when grounds people just chuck the pegs down any old how. Ideally they should be at 90' of the direction of the pin or ideal angle for fairway. Now I've no problem with aligniong myself, but its amazing how odd it makes you feel. In situations like that I usually go back upto the two club lengths I'm alowed to in the rules in the rule book.

 

[johng]

couldn't agree more. It annoys the cr@p out of me when i get to a tee and the markers are right at the back and on uneven ground.

We have 1 tee (13th) that from the whites aims you about 34-40* left off the fairway. it is amazing how hard this then becomes to align yourself to the fairway, even subconsciously most people find it hard to allow for this.

I heard a tale of an old grrenkeeper who once said "make sure the tee's and greens are the best features on a course. players will forgive - forget, poorer fairways". I think there's a lot of truth in that.

John.