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Do you tee it up?

Tee on a Par 3?

  • Give me the wooden peg

    Votes: 105 87.5%

  • Nope just a blade of grass

    Votes: 15 12.5%
  • Total voters
    120
The rules let you give yourself a perfect lie when you start the hole. Why not do it?
 
leftshot said:
Now having established the overwhelming vote in favor of teeing up the ball when hitting an iron or wedge on a par 3, we should add that not all of you are doing it right.
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when i use the tee on the par 3's, it's normally pushed almost all the way down but when i had my lesson the other day, the instructor had it tee'd up about an inch...that was awkward to me...
 
I always tee it up on par 3’s with a short broken tee. I only tee it up maybe a 1/4 inch or so. I always keep a few broken tees in my pocket or bag. I can’t stand using a full length tee pushed deep into the ground.
 
100% of the time. It's an advantage, might as well use it.
 
I am always a tee it up player. If I am allowed to tee I will. I am more of a picker when hitting the ball off the fairway, so if I can get a better spin by teeing I will certainly do that.
 
When i first started playing golf I found myself mimicking my buddies, I since realize some of these habits did nothing to improve my game. One of the habitats was searching for a used tee on par threes. When I should have been focusing on the shot and my target I was kicking around broken tees looking for a useable one.
Golf is hard enough, tees are cheap, I don’t need any distractions.
 
chile said:
when i use the tee on the par 3's, it's normally pushed almost all the way down but when i had my lesson the other day, the instructor had it tee'd up about an inch...that was awkward to me...
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Get a new instructor.
 
Always use a tee.
 
Not only do I use a tee but I and everyone at your club would like you to use one as well.

Yes, you still take a divot but nothing like the ones that get carved out of the tee from placing the ball on the ground.

Played with some jackass years ago who never used a tee. He took a deep swipe out of each of the par threes that day. If everyone did that the ground would be ruined in a week's time.

Tee it up...please....yes, I know, you don't take a deep divot. Please tee it up anyway, thanks~
 
Yes. I carry two different tees; long for driver, and short for irons. If there's a decent one in the broken tee caddie, I'll use it instead.
 
I tee up everything on the tee box, yep, even wedges. Even if it's just a little bit I can guarantee a a little higher strike, especially on irons. I really like this for wedge shots into short par 3s where it's 135-140 to the pin and it will stop dead on moderate to soft greens with my 50*.

I also tee up my driver 3.25" on course and if I'm feeling frisky...4".
 
give me the crisp lie to give me the best shot of hitting a good shot.
 
I have not used a tee 4 times in the last 2 rounds and have 3 birdies and a par on those holes. I definitely haven't birdied 75% of all other holes during those rounds, and the use of tees is obviously to blame.

#DriverOfftheDeckFromNowOn
 
Generally I'm searching for a broken tee. A few months ago I read an article that basically stated "why wouldn't you?" It puts the ball as a perfect lie. So I have started to put extra effort in my search on the teebox for a broken tee. If I can't find one I'll tee it up with just a normal tee. Though nothing looks as cool as tossing the ball down and hitting it.
 
PJSprog said:
Yes. I carry two different tees; long for driver, and short for irons. If there's a decent one in the broken tee caddie, I'll use it instead.
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you mean the tee box? :ROFLMAO:....i'm always throwing broken, forgotten tees off the box...into the trash if there is one, or put in a pile by the hole sign/marker
 
If I hear Perfect Lie one more time I might lose it. The number of people who said they learned a lot from a somewhat recent video on proper tee height, shows that most people don't actually know what a perfect lie is for them on any given tee box.

'Perfect' should be replaced with 'elevated' or 'obstacle free'.
 
OldandStiff said:
If I hear Perfect Lie one more time I might lose it. The number of people who said they learned a lot from a somewhat recent video on proper tee height, shows that most people don't actually know what a perfect lie is for them on any given tee box.

'Perfect' should be replaced with 'elevated' or 'obstacle free'.
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Perfect....Lie.
 
I usually will find a broken tee to use to tee it up on par 3's. If I can't find one, I reach in my pocket and pull out a full tee to use. I tee it up 100% of the time on par 3's.
 
I almost never tee up on a par three. With clubs less than 3 wood, the tee messes with my mind and makes me try to swing the club differently...even if teed up really low. Only on a really bad tee box where I couldn’t find any sort of lie would a tee come out for me.

May be something I revisit this season, but that is where I am for now.
 
Even if I tee it low, I still tee it up. I forget the pro who said this, but the gist was that you should eliminate as many variables as you can and a tee removes a lot of variables at the ground level.
 
Almost 100% of the time I use a tee, there have been a fee time on a par 3 I have not put a tee down but that is due to pure laziness and doesn't happen very often.
 
chile said:
you mean the tee box? :ROFLMAO:....i'm always throwing broken, forgotten tees off the box...into the trash if there is one, or put in a pile by the hole sign/marker
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Our home course has those little cone-shaped containers stuck in the ground at each tee box for disposal of broken tees.
 
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