Where do you tee up between the blocks?...and why?
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garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
ive also heard other advice saying this can be the wrong thing to do. hear me out. if you slice the ball and there is a massive pond to the right. if you wander over to the right side of the tee box. aim even further to the left, cut across this ball, there is only one place this is going!
SPLASH!!!
if you aim at the danger and hit a pull stype shot you will not put in in the drink. you might hook it into the trees on the left but you wont go in the drink.
I was playing this guy matchplay at my old club. even was a lower handicap than me but I was stuffing him. standing on our si 1 15th, which has ob tight down the right. I stood up, took my 16degree hybrid and aimed down the right out of bounds then proceeded to pull it away from the danger and down the fairway. he admitted to me that he though I had gone mad standing on the tee and was shocked to see my ball bend away from the danger and down the fairway. he said later, there wasn't much he could do to catch me when I was pulling shots like that out of the bag.
hes still a better golfer than me though
SPLASH!!!
if you aim at the danger and hit a pull stype shot you will not put in in the drink. you might hook it into the trees on the left but you wont go in the drink.
I was playing this guy matchplay at my old club. even was a lower handicap than me but I was stuffing him. standing on our si 1 15th, which has ob tight down the right. I stood up, took my 16degree hybrid and aimed down the right out of bounds then proceeded to pull it away from the danger and down the fairway. he admitted to me that he though I had gone mad standing on the tee and was shocked to see my ball bend away from the danger and down the fairway. he said later, there wasn't much he could do to catch me when I was pulling shots like that out of the bag.
hes still a better golfer than me though
sawtooth
Tour Winner
Normally left especially with longer clubs because I tend to now aim down the right of the target hoping to draw the ball back.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Depends on all of the above; how I am playing on any day; how I feel; and the state of the tee.
Beezerk
Money List Winner
Lad I play with told me about a fella who teed up kinda over the tee box marker if that makes sense?
He's stood outside the box, ball is in the box and he swings over the marker.
Can't think why he would do it.
He's stood outside the box, ball is in the box and he swings over the marker.
Can't think why he would do it.
cookelad
Tour Winner
We've a fella who does exactly that - I wince every time he hits a tee shot fearing shafts snapping and club head and tee markers flying everywhere!
philly169
Journeyman Pro
Most of the time its on the right hand side, normally a couple of feet back... sometimes the middle, very rarely the left
dontfancythisputt
Club Champion
I do exactly this if im wanting to really move it right to left and the tee box is on the far right of the tee. Many FC have howvever expressed their concerns!
Wayman
Tour Winner
Any where that's dry and flat
HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
I know someone who does that.
mcbroon
Journeyman Pro
I set up so that I can hit it towards the hazard. Much less chance of going in it if I'm aiming at it
Break90
Tour Rookie
I set up so that I can hit it towards the hazard. Much less chance of going in it if I'm aiming at it
This. If I struggle to hit a big green from 200 yards I'm unlikely to pick out a bunker from 200 yards if I'm aiming at it.
I normally tee up somewhere near the middle of the tee box, I', just as likely to fade (slice) as I am to draw (hook). Every now and then one will go down the middle though.........
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
As far left as possible, need as much room as I can for my soft draw (yeah i mean hook lol)
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
My best mate does this from time to time. I just can't do it.
Beezerk
Money List Winner
Have you asked why he does it?
Some kind of drill thing like the two head covers maybe?
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
I do it sometimes if I want to be further left than the tee boxes allow (usually when there are trees encroaching on the right hand side of the hole!)
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Two head covers?
He does it to give him the line he wants for the shape of shot he wants to hit. If that means teeing up very close to or indeed just inside the RH side of the tee box and hence standing well outside of it then that's what he does. And usually this will mean swinging over the tee marker.
Beezerk
Money List Winner
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
I left the word "drill" out of my post
none the wiser I'm afraid...two heads covers drill?
knew an American guy, really loud, large, and looked like Col Sanders, he did this frequently, just showing off really as there is no logical reason to do it.....no matter what excuse they come up with.....then one time he clipped the tee marker on the downswing, damaged his club, just clipped the ball which rolled about 3 feet left, rolled down the bank and OOB:rofl:
I never saw him do it again but he moaned about the larger than usual tee markers the whole way round
