Does the tee itself affect your shot?

[SirMixALot]

After reading the thread about breaking tees, I started thinking about tees. I found a Martini tee a while back, and since it's soft plastic and bends, and has a very large head that makes it easy to use, I been using it exclusively. My buddy thinks that such a large ball to tee contact point has some affect on the ball flight. I'm not so sure, but I don't ever see anyone else using them. What do you think?

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

I think tees are tees.

 

[limpalong]

I hate breaking those wood tees. After all, they don't grow on trees!!!

Lots of dollars made by those manufacturing "low friction" tees. Personally, I do not see where one tee gives much, if any, advantage over another... for we who play this game for fun. One guy in our group buys bamboo tees. They are expensive. He says they shear off easier and don't slow the clubhead. And, he can most certainly tell a difference between his 155 yard drives and his 160 yard drives!!!!!

Use whatever tee you have/find. I have three large coffee cans full of tees of all shapes and sized that I've collected over the years. If it will go in the ground, I'll play it.

 

[eclark53520]

Assuming you hit the ball solid, the tee doesn't make squat of a difference. Honestly, I doubt it makes a difference regardless of how you hit the ball.

Tee slowing the club head? The ball is gone before the head makes contact with the tee.

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

Now I'll say this...I do not use painted tees, just the natural wood ones as I don't want paint transfer. That is the extent of it for me.

 

[eclark53520]

I only use the plastic ones because I got so sick of breaking tee's on every driver shot.

I think I have 7 rounds on my current tee. I've lost 3 or 4 of them out of the pack in the last 3 years. Really nice not having to worry about running out of tees in the middle of the round.

 

[azgreg]

Now I'll say this...I do not use painted tees, just the natural wood ones as I don't want paint transfer. That is the extent of it for me.

Red tees are bad luck and they cause cancer.

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

Red tees are bad luck and they cause cancer.

EXACTLY!!!

 

[TEA Time]

Pros go to great lengths to gain every advantage imaginable, no matter how trivial it may seem to us. They use wooden tees so I suspect the tee has zero effect on the shot.

 

[PaPaD]

Tees are useful - they hold the ball off the ground, they can be used to clean the grooves on your clubface, pick hot dog spooge out of your teeth, mark the best shot spot for your scramble team, leave all kinds of interesting marks on the bottom of your driver. What they don't do is affect the flight or distance of your shot.

 

[TheTrueReview]

People often overlook that the tee was the most revolutionary piece of equipment introduced to golf.

 

[TEA Time]

Tees are useful - they hold the ball off the ground, they can be used to clean the grooves on your clubface, pick hot dog spooge out of your teeth, mark the best shot spot for your scramble team, leave all kinds of interesting marks on the bottom of your driver. What they don't do is affect the flight or distance of your shot.

WTF, man?!

 

[PaPaD]

WTF, man?!

I didn't have any dental floss..........................

 

[TEA Time]

...dog "spooge"

 

[SirMixALot]

I leave hotdog spooge in my teeth, it bothers my playing partners. For a while I thought biodegradable tees were the way to go.