To Tee or not to Tee (Irons)

[gdc]

Always find a nice lie on the deck - sometimes chunk a lie up a bit.

 

[DaveyG]

I never understand this question.

if you can give youself a perfect lie. why wouldnt you. The pros certainly use tees with irons.

This has always been my response too pal until recently where I have decided on par 3's where I only need a wedge... Its a confidence thing I guess and 90% of the time teeing up add's confidence... Just not with my wedges

 

[DaveyG]

When I do play a tee on a par 3 its normally just above sitting flush... Like others have said take advantage of the perfect lie

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Always find a nice lie on the deck - sometimes chunk a lie up a bit.

why not just stick a peg in the ground at the place you find that nice lie?

 

[JezzE]

Don't think I've ever not teed it up in 30 years of playing.

Once read a book by Davis Love where he said his father told him always to use a tee, so he always did. If it's good enough for him...

Besides, I'm a pretty rubbish iron player

 

[Piece]

I spent a few years in 90s not using a tee. Not sure why tbh. Always use a tee.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Good players use a tee peg, poseurs don't

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I spent a few years in 90s not using a tee. Not sure why tbh. Always use a tee.

It made you look cool and uber-confident?

 

[gdc]

why not just stick a peg in the ground at the place you find that nice lie?

I just feel more confident that I can control the ball better from the deck - just a personal thing really.

 

[bladeplayer]

Will depend on the tee box really Unless the tee box is wet , mucky or sandy il play it off the ground ,

 

[garyinderry]

Foreign objects under the ball. Not for me! :thup:

Very odd time if I feel the need I will use one. More often than not I am happy to find a nice spot on the ground to hit from.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

I wonder if any tour players are reading this thread and thinking "Hmmmm, handicap golfers hit it off the deck, maybe I should do it too"

 

[the_coach]

I will always use a tee with an iron on a par 3, or tight par 4, but think 'teeing the ball up' is the wrong ways of looking at it.

but that said I'm putting a ball on a tee, but the tee is always pressed down so the the base of the 'cup' is in contact with the ground, my divot is some inches target side of the ball.

so if the tee hasn't snapped it usually requires using the club to lever the tee out of the teeing area - a common courtesy to other players & the ground staff to make sure you remove the tee.

do tend to notice that oft times both mid & higher handicap players will tend to tee the ball "up" - so a good deal of the stalk visible above ground - so a ways too high.

then they tend to have their miss-hits by hitting the ball a ways too high on the face so the ball flies too high & a little ways 'dead' in terms of forwards trajectory through lack of ball speed so most often the shots are a good ways short of target.

as many folks oft times hit their fairway iron shots 'fat' or 'thin' (part of the same swing issue) they would be a ways better off putting the ball on a tee, but with that they have to develop the confidence to tee the ball 'down' & strike down & through.

big Jack always said if it's in the rules to give yourself a better lie on the tee ground, to give yourself better chance of solid contact -why wouldn't you do that - he always did throughout his career.

 

[SocketRocket]

It was popular years back chunk the iron into the turf backwards making a little raised bit of turf, sit the ball on it and when taking your shot the turf would sit back down again. Guess it's probably banned by the EU these days

 

[CMAC]

I will always use a tee with an iron on a par 3, or tight par 4, but think 'teeing the ball up' is the wrong ways of looking at it.

but that said I'm putting a ball on a tee, but the tee is always pressed down so the the base of the 'cup' is in contact with the ground, my divot is some inches target side of the ball.

so if the tee hasn't snapped it usually requires using the club to lever the tee out of the teeing area - a common courtesy to other players & the ground staff to make sure you remove the tee.

do tend to notice that oft times both mid & higher handicap players will tend to tee the ball "up" - so a good deal of the stalk visible above ground - so a ways too high.

then they tend to have their miss-hits by hitting the ball a ways too high on the face so the ball flies too high & a little ways 'dead' in terms of forwards trajectory through lack of ball speed so most often the shots are a good ways short of target.

as many folks oft times hit their fairway iron shots 'fat' or 'thin' (part of the same swing issue) they would be a ways better off putting the ball on a tee, but with that they have to develop the confidence to tee the ball 'down' & strike down & through.

big Jack always said if it's in the rules to give yourself a better lie on the tee ground, to give yourself better chance of solid contact -why wouldn't you do that - he always did throughout his career.

THIS in bold:thup:

 

[Slab]

I chunk the ground with the club-face and put the ball on that... too much faffing in this game and using tee's for iron shots only slows down play!

 

[Smiffy]

The modern wooden (or plastic tee) is a fairly modern invention.

Name. ScienceBoy.
Specialist subject. The bleeding obvious

 

[Hobbit]

Tee every time. If Jack Nichlaus says tee it up every time, and he's the best golfer ever, I'll take his advice.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Might as well give yourself the best lie possible - always tee it up

Is the right answer

 

[TheCaddie]

I tend to tee up slightly higher for my hybrid, 4 and 5 and then similar to the coach for the rest of my irons.