Tee peg custom fitting

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I currently use plastic castle tees but I was wondering what handicap would I have to be to move on to the white slim wooden tees. I know they are harder to hit from and they offer no help but with lessons and lots of practice I know I could hit from them eventually. Can Rabbits use wooden tees or would you wait until I'm off single figures. Any help appreciated.
 
Tiger said:
It's not often I'm dumbfounded but can I ask if, prior to scribing this, you had taken any hallucinogenic substances?
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Yes, strawberry trifle with Tomazopam (I wanted marzipan, but my doctor gave me the recipe, and his handwriting is shocking).

Crow said:
But don't you find you've eaten them all by the time you get to the third hole?
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No. I eat jelly tots.
 
I've been using tees you have to push in for years now - but due to my back pains, am considering electric. Is it worth paying for a 36 hole battery? Or given that I've just had a bit of a windfall, should I go the whole hog and go for the Stewart tees with the remote control?
 
backwoodsman said:
I've been using tees you have to push in for years now - but due to my back pains, am considering electric. Is it worth paying for a 36 hole battery? Or given that I've just had a bit of a windfall, should I go the whole hog and go for the Stewart tees with the remote control?
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Yes, go mad and get the lithium piledriver battery.
 
To cure a hook or slice try the Nike Ball-ance tee’s

(they have an online microsite under the brand name Nite' )

It’s based on and looks like the famous swoosh and you simply turn it with the higher point facing towards the trait you want to eliminate, i.e for a slice put the higher point of the swoosh on right hand side with a twist depending on how bad this slice is that needs corrected

Only issue is that you have to put the two points ‘into’ two dimples on the ball and Nike discovered there’s only two of the average 360 dimples that are the correct spacing for this, but once you find them (on each ball) you can mark them with the sharpie you get with each pack of tees, sorted!
 
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No substitute for new shiney tee’s obviously but lessons are always an option. The pro near me does a pack of 6 half hour sessions to learn how to use a standard tee correctly

The first two sessions are classroom based and essentially get you to come to terms with the specific tee problems your having (also known as the t-issue) this can be quite an emotional journey so be prepared

But once out on the range things will start to feel better after around 1,000 hits and then it’s on to the course

The pro says I can insert a tee to cat1 standard even though I actually play off 24 and I was once asked to join the captain for a pro-am based on how I planted the tee on the 1st (happy days)
 
I have also read a couple of books on tee use and how it can shave shots off your score. Bob Boteella’s Tee Too Green is mostly warning against the use of tee’s that are finished on a strong or bold colour (especially green) and basically promotes white as the way to go (£7.99 RRP but you can pick one up for less if you shop around)

His follow up is Bob Boteella: The 16th Tee, it’s a big book with 348 pages but once you get through it on page 340 or so he essentially says when buying a pack of 200 tee’s you should throw away the first 15 and use the next one (I shot a PB the next day using this method)
 
You need one of those tees which holds the ball on a cushion of air just above the surface. I think they are called HoverTees. The reduction in friction helps increase ball speed by up to 0.001 mph, which should add about 1/8" to your drives.
 
I once hit the ball so hard that my tee went 320 yards straight down the middle!

I frequently get it out past 300 and that's NOT downhill or downwind either :ears:
 
Ethan said:
You need one of those tees which holds the ball on a cushion of air just above the surface. I think they are called HoverTees. The reduction in friction helps increase ball speed by up to 0.001 mph, which should add about 1/8" to your drives.
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All well & good but there's a school of thought promoting the Hoover-Tee (as the name suggests it works by sucking the ball-tee combo together)

What happens after you hit it is basically the tee remains 'suction attached' and acts like a tail and while this does eliminate spin to zero (which is never good) it does allow for a smoke trail to be left allowing not only an easier ball find but also a sure way of discerning the exact point at which your ball crossed the hazard/oob boundary (which it definitely will)

As an edit I believe R&D is underway to develop static tee's that will actually repel the ball at point of clubhead impact using the static charge and early testing suggests a gain of 5-10mm of your shots (my local track is already lengthening several holes in preparation of these hitting the market)
 
I keep hearing that the lofts on my tees are 3 degrees stronger than 5 years ago for instance my old 5 tee is now the same as a modern 4 tee, does this mean I have to sell them all and get the latest tees or can I just change the numbers on them???

My second question is that when I tee off I mark the position on my GPS after I get to my ball I mark it again. This shows me how far I have hit my drive. Currently I have to walk back to the tee box to collect my tee otherwise the GPS wont work on the next hole. This means my rounds take on average 7 hours. Would a laser speed this up???
 
Has anyone trying shortening their tees themselves? I took the head off one but having cut the shaft to the desired length I cant get the head to stay on.
 
:ears: still going this then 114 posts

There's a nugget of truth in this , in that it kind of highlights the blah that gets talked about golf equipment by manufacturers etc

Few made me chuckle
 
louise_a said:
Has anyone trying shortening their tees themselves? I took the head off one but having cut the shaft to the desired length I cant get the head to stay on.
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Louise just bite the bullet and go for the interchangeable variety, that way you can get the head/shaft combo to suit your game (its an area often neglected but try a plastic head on a wooden shaft and you'll be converted for ever)

The synergy this achieves has to be seen to be believed
(& you cant say synergy without saying nergy, which is quite like energy)
 
I'm quite interested in the new field of golf tee mind coaches that seems to be very popular nowadays. I have heard the argument that it is a lot of hokum, they basically just recite common sense and they are not much better than tarot card readers, preying on desperate golfers who will buy or try anything if they think it will take 2 shots off their handicap. And I suppose one could argue that if they will spend a lot of money on a cheap plastic bracelet with a piece of metal in it around their wrist and truly believe it is giving off mystic magnetic fields that will improve your game, then desperate golfers will swallow anything.

But I say hold on. I read an interesting piece the other day from Karl Morris telling me how to visualise putting my tee into the ground and then placing the ball on the tee. So I followed his instructions using the techniques suggested, prepared my mind and tried it out on the course.

And it was transformational. As on every hole I managed to put the tee in the ground first time and the ball didn't fall off once. I think it has fundamentally changed my game and I am looking forwards to my handicap dropping significantly as a result.:)
 
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