Tornado Tee.... another placebo or genius

[vkurup]

Does anyone believe in high performance tees? (or is there such a thing). Stumbled on to something called as Tornado tees in the US. http://www.tornadotee.com/

Apparently, they reduced friction as well as provide lower resistance to the driver as it hits the tee and therefore increases ball speed.

To my simple mind, the ball should have left the building by the time the driver hits the tee, so how does it matter what tee you use. The only difference tee makes is the height at which it is kept.

Am I wrong in not wanting this new revolutionary golf kit in my stockings in a few weeks?

 

[CMAC]

Total codswallop..................in my opinion

 

[Val]

How can a tee reduce spin?

 

[timchump]

can't see it myself

though people in those long driving championships always use "special" low friction tees ...........?

 

[USER1999]

can't see it myself

though people in those long driving championships always use "special" low friction tees ...........?

Because they are paid to?

 

[duncan mackie]

How can a tee reduce spin?

friction on the base of the ball will deliver an element of rotational force, so I would accept the theory easily enough.

in practice I can't see it having any meaningful effect though!

 

[Snelly]

Utter nonsense.

 

[cookelad]

I give them the same standing as the underwater hairdryer!

 

[woody69]

surely the difference is negligible? Just a fad me thinks. Anyone want to buy a magnetic bracelet?

 

[vkurup]

friction on the base of the ball will deliver an element of rotational force, so I would accept the theory easily enough.

in practice I can't see it having any meaningful effect though!

+1 on that

 

[vkurup]

Anyone want to buy a magnetic bracelet?

Westy and Rory are wearing it.. Different results though...

 

[Birchy]

Utter bollards.

 

[m10johnson]

If you look at what the tour players use; pretty sure 99% use plain white wooden tees.

 

[JT77]

They look like brush tees that were about a few years back, nonsense in my opinion.

 

[Foxholer]

Yep. Road of Borrocks!

If anything, friction on a tee will reduce the backspin, so less friction ......?!

 

[duncan mackie]

having just looked at the pdf of the Trackman data they provide to support their claims I find it staggering that they have such large variations in the club's angle of attack accross the 3 types of tee!

the way I read the information they present is that the shots where the driver is decending have a greater spin rate on the ball than the shot where the head is coming back up a tiny bit - which just happens to be the shot from their Tee Peg.

Unbelievable :sbox:

 

[vkurup]

having just looked at the pdf of the Trackman data they provide to support their claims...

You have a lot of free time mate... i just switched off when I heard about it.... (does not help if you are an engineer by training)

 

[cookelad]

having just looked at the pdf of the Trackman data they provide to support their claims I find it staggering that they have such large variations in the club's angle of attack accross the 3 types of tee!

the way I read the information they present is that the shots where the driver is decending have a greater spin rate on the ball than the shot where the head is coming back up a tiny bit - which just happens to be the shot from their Tee Peg.

Unbelievable :sbox:

Not knowing a thing about launch angles/spin rates etc I'm guessing they got Mr H.Acker off the street to hit off the wooden and plastic tees then asked Mr T.Pro to hit the tornado tee?

 

[duncan mackie]

Not knowing a thing about launch angles/spin rates etc I'm guessing they got Mr H.Acker off the street to hit off the wooden and plastic tees then asked Mr T.Pro to hit the tornado tee?

that wouldn't have worked - they needed to at least have clubhead speeds in the same area, and as many other stats as possible.

just haven't made a good enough job of it!

this is a classic of where the old Iron Byron would be very relevant - same club, same balls, different tees (at the same height!) and look at the results.......but no, they use a golfer!

 

[JustOne]

Weird, the trackman stats used in the vid show the ball hit with the tornado tee as the most offline


I'm out!