Tamping down your lie

[Tashyboy]

Played today and a PP teed up his ball and proceeded to flatten or stand on the ground behind the ball.Don’t get me wrong the tee area did look grubby. Now I know you cannot do it when on the fairway or rough etc. But what’s the thought process re allowing it on a tee.

Cheers me dears.

 

[Region3]

No problem on the tee, but as you say you can’t do it on the fairway/rough

 

[Sports_Fanatic]

Played today and a PP teed up his ball and proceeded to flatten or stand on the ground behind the ball.Don’t get me wrong the tee area did look grubby. Now I know you cannot do it when on the fairway or rough etc. But what’s the thought process re allowing it on a tee.

Cheers me dears.

I could be wrong but i think the point is that the ball isn't in play yet so it is more lenient in allowing you to do that. Likewise i guess there is an argument that you can choose placement and a tee so does it really matter.

 

[clubchamp98]

Played today and a PP teed up his ball and proceeded to flatten or stand on the ground behind the ball.Don’t get me wrong the tee area did look grubby. Now I know you cannot do it when on the fairway or rough etc. But what’s the thought process re allowing it on a tee.

Cheers me dears.

The ball is not in play on the tee.
So you can put it anywhere you want and make sure you have a perfect lie.
Once you have hit it it’s in play until it’s in the hole.

 

[Bratty]

Perfectly acceptable to tread behind the ball on the tee. I've been doing it for a while now since I learned you could.

 

[rulefan]

You can even make a little hump to place the ball on A la Laura Davies.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

You can even make a little hump to place the ball on A la Laura Davies.

Indeed - not only can you tamp down a lump of earth behind your tee'd up ball, but you can bash one up with your club to sit your ball on - or indeed stick your tee into if that's your thing (or if you've only got a short tee and you want it tee'd up higher )

 

[rulefan]

And you can also make a little (or large) pile of sand.

 

[clubchamp98]

You can even make a little hump to place the ball on A la Laura Davies.

I do this on par 3s .

 

[2blue]

Played today and a PP teed up his ball and proceeded to flatten or stand on the ground behind the ball.Don’t get me wrong the tee area did look grubby. Now I know you cannot do it when on the fairway or rough etc. But what’s the thought process re allowing it on a tee.

Cheers me dears.

Another thread wasted

 

[rulie]

A player makes takes some sand from a bunker and makes pile with the sand, a couple inches high, then puts a four inch tee in that sand such that his ball is at least five inches above the surface of the teeing area, and plays it? What is the outcome?

 

[salfordlad]

A player makes takes some sand from a bunker and makes pile with the sand, a couple inches high, then puts a four inch tee in that sand such that his ball is at least five inches above the surface of the teeing area, and plays it? What is the outcome?

A skied shot and a mouth full of sand?

 

[Tashyboy]

Another thread wasted

Another wasted comment.

 

[salfordlad]

A player makes takes some sand from a bunker and makes pile with the sand, a couple inches high, then puts a four inch tee in that sand such that his ball is at least five inches above the surface of the teeing area, and plays it? What is the outcome?

Version 2...
No rules issues (6.2b(2)).

 

[Whereditgo]

I am always surprised at the amount of people who think it is ok to press down on the ground or remove loose soil from behind the ball in the general area.

 

[Jason.H]

Off topic but still on the tee. When I first started playing golf in 2001 I entered comps with very experienced golfers. I took my tee shot ripped a divot and picked it up to replace it and was told off. They said never replace a divot on the tee area.

 

[rulefan]

Huh?

 

[jim8flog]

Off topic but still on the tee. When I first started playing golf in 2001 I entered comps with very experienced golfers. I took my tee shot ripped a divot and picked it up to replace it and was told off. They said never replace a divot on the tee area.

It is not a rule just custom, The reasoning behind that is that the divot is not firmly attached to the ground. Somebody else might tee up on the same area but say at the side of the divot and the tee falls over mid swing or other problems.

 

[SammmeBee]

It is not a rule just custom, The reasoning behind that is that the divot is not firmly attached to the ground. Somebody else might tee up on the same area but say at the side of the divot and the tee falls over mid swing or other problems.

Way too much cider been had here!!! ?

 

[Steve Wilkes]

Off topic but still on the tee. When I first started playing golf in 2001 I entered comps with very experienced golfers. I took my tee shot ripped a divot and picked it up to replace it and was told off. They said never replace a divot on the tee area.

I always replace divots on the fairway and on the teeing ground as I prefer my courses teeing areas to look neater