Tees...

[Smiffy]

I always use wooden tees. Don't know why but I took a dislike to plastic ones shortly after I started playing and I have never used them since.
The only plastic ones I have ever been tempted to try are the pink castle ones so that I get a uniform height with my driver...but I have resisted so far.
If I am using anything other than the driver off the tee I normally have a broken wooden tee in my pocket somewhere in amongst the good 'uns so will use that. If I don't have one, I will snap a new one in half.

 

[Imurg]

. If I don't have one, I will snap a new one in half.

Oooh You Beast Smiffy!!

Long white wooden tees for the Driver.
Broken tees for everything else.

Don't like plastic - they don't leave that white mark on the sole of the driver......

 

[Smiffy]

Oooh You Beast Smiffy!!

They're the thick wooden ones too. None of those spindley thin things for me.
I'm pretty tough

 

[Mick47]

I use the grey plastic ones with the driver. Usually look round the tee for a disgarded/broken wooden one for irons, not strong enough to break a new one by myself. Guess I'll have to start going to the gym and man up a bit..

 

[USER1999]

They're the thick wooden ones too. None of those spindley thin things for me.
I'm pretty tough

You probably pre cut them with a hack saw.

I think my pro does this before selling tees.

 

[Smiffy]

You probably pre cut them with a hack saw.

I just bite into them with my tooth

 

[Snelly]

You tell me. In order to obtain the plastics for your 2 tees you need to drill, pump, refine and so on a volume of oil. That's a non-renewable resource which is not being recycled as a part of your plastic tee usage. They also do not degrade and once in the soil of your course will in all probablility stay there for several hundred years.

On the other hand the use of 100 or so wooden tees requires the growth of a tree which is an entirely renewable resource and biodegrades. And in all probability you'll reuse the broken ones on short shots anyway so you'll probably only use 3 or 4 a round at most. I tend to snap perhaps 2 in a round of golf.

As golfers we should be more aware of the ecological impact we have on the surroundings we play in as the more we abuse the more chance there is that these materials we use will have an impact on our playgrounds.

Courses are already starting to be more aware of the chemicals they use on the course and are leaving more areas in a natural state to cope more efficiently with the things we spray the places with... should we not do the same thing and be more aware of the impacts of using something plastic and considered disposable whilst playing?

Jonny, I don't take your point at all. It is sanctimonious and reads like an extract from the Guardian.

India and China are building 2-3 coal fired power plants every week and you are taking the moral high ground over the ecological impact of two pink plastic castle tees??

I hope your golf shoes are made of recycled car tyres/bamboo/natural yoghurt etc. Otherwise, just think of the impact on koala bears and icebergs eh?

 

[Monty_Brown]

I have to say that plastic tees are the least of golf's environmental problems, so it seems daft getting worked up over wooden vs plastic tees.

If we really want to pick over the issues, then plastic use in balls, metal use in clubs, and water use for irrigation are all worse IMO.

Trying to make perfectly green courses in the middle of a desert in Dubai is more indicative of golf's environmental recklessness, I'd say.

 

[Jonny]

As pointed out in the balls thread I don't actually believe in recycling anyway. It winds me up.

 

[SyR]

No idea why I like wooden tees but I won't even keep plastic tees in my bag.

The idea that we're saving the environment by using wooden tees is laughable. The wood is probably is shipped from Afrcan or Brazilian rainforests to Europe or China where it's then turned into tees and shipped to Europe to be sold for 1,000 tees for a fiver.

Also when I was a greenkeeper I never had a machine jam because of a plastic tee. The machines that cut around the tees and in the rough could slice a lost golf ball clean in half. I did however have a tractor tyre deflate as a wooden tee managed to penetrate the tyre.

The only positive for me is that wooden tees tend to go into frosty/frozen tees easier than plastic tees which bend more. Also if you come across a winter tee mat on a par 3 that requires a short tee you can break a wooden tee to fit your requirements.

 

[papyt]

I only use white wooden tees with a yellow height indicator set them at different heights for what ever club i am using and at only £2-50 for 200 who cares if you snap one ( only last a couple of holes) and is it not infuriating as your waiting to step onto the tee box to be greeted by did you see were my tee when its my favorite one and have to spend time looking for a chunk of pink plastic before you can tee off.