What is a Tee Box?

[ManinBlack]

The tee box is referred to a lot but is really a misnomer. Only people of my age will remember what a tee box really is. In the dim & distant past, before the advent of wooden tees the ball used to be teed up on a pile of sand, which was contained on each tee in a "tee box". We still have the metal boxes on our course, they are about 1 foot square and are now used as rubbish bins. Previously, they were printed with the hole number, par, yardage & stroke index.

And while we're on, we tee the ball up on a tee peg, not a tee, on the teeing ground (as per the Rules of Golf), not the tee, but I don't think many people are that pedantic.

 

[patricks148]

The tee box is referred to a lot but is really a misnomer. Only people of my age will remember what a tee box really is. In the dim & distant past, before the advent of wooden tees the ball used to be teed up on a pile of sand, which was contained on each tee in a "tee box". We still have the metal boxes on our course, they are about 1 foot square and are now used as rubbish bins. Previously, they were printed with the hole number, par, yardage & stroke index.

And while we're on, we tee the ball up on a tee peg, not a tee, on the teeing ground (as per the Rules of Golf), not the tee, but I don't think many people are that pedantic.

is it a box you keep your tee's in???

we call the the Tee's the boxes

 

[Tongo]

Its hardly surprising when one considers that we still refer to certain clubs as woods.

 

[guest100718]

The tee box is referred to a lot but is really a misnomer. Only people of my age will remember what a tee box really is. In the dim & distant past, before the advent of wooden tees the ball used to be teed up on a pile of sand, which was contained on each tee in a "tee box". We still have the metal boxes on our course, they are about 1 foot square and are now used as rubbish bins. Previously, they were printed with the hole number, par, yardage & stroke index.

And while we're on, we tee the ball up on a tee peg, not a tee, on the teeing ground (as per the Rules of Golf), not the tee, but I don't think many people are that pedantic.

Have you met foxholer?

 

[the smiling assassin]

Used to call the
white tee = medal tee
yellow tee = box tee
still do from time to time.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

i mind the boxes being on stand with splayed legs about 3ft high with a 'separator' diagonally out at each corner of the box. This enabled you each to prop your bag against the stand so it wasn't just lying on the ground

 

[Foxholer]

Have you met foxholer?

Capital 'F' :rofl:

 

[guest100718]

Capital 'F' :rofl:

you dont disappoint

 

[Hobbit]

you dont disappoint

That's a mug of coffee gone everywhere...

 

[pogle]

And while we're on, we tee the ball up on a tee peg, not a tee, on the teeing ground (as per the Rules of Golf), not the tee, but I don't think many people are that pedantic.

Form Appendix IV-1 of the Rules of Golf. "A tee is a device designed to raise the ball off the ground".

Note : "tee" , not "tee peg".

 

[ManinBlack]

Form Appendix IV-1 of the Rules of Golf. "A tee is a device designed to raise the ball off the ground".

Note : "tee" , not "tee peg".

They're wrong!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

They're wrong!

I assume a stiff email is on the way to the R&A to tell them of their oversight

 

[ManinBlack]

I assume a stiff email is on the way to the R&A to tell them of their oversight

I've had one e mail from them already for giving me an incorrect decision on the rules.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I've had one e mail from them already for giving me an incorrect decision on the rules.

You don't think it's just you :thup::rofl: