Tee or no tee on par three?

I like to chop the ground with my club like Trevino and put the ball on the raised edge like a tee

I like the little push pin tees for par 3s.

Been struggling with a tee this year. My divot is not forward enough. So, if the tee box at issue has nice cushy grass where the ball sits up, I do not use a tee.

I use to not tee it up and boy is that a mistake.

The problem with no tee is consistency of your lie. Are you playing off hardpan or thick grass. .both of which can affect quality of contact, ball flight, and distance control. If you have it teed up you have the same lie every time. I don't think it should be teed any higher than what a good lie in the fairway would provide, though.

I believe it was Jimmy Demaret that said the difference between golf professionals and ams was that the pros always used a tee.

If I can’t tee it up on some taller grass patch then I’ll use a tee but I like taller grass spots for par 3s and also for tee boxes where I’m hitting hybrid or 3 wood

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I never see modern tour pros not teeing it either. That should tell you everything you need to know

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Except for those Open Championship courses in the UK, you never see tour pros play a course where every shot on the tee or fairway isn't on a rich, loamy turf that comes up in perfect dollar bill size divots, either. Most tour courses are pampered, over indulged golf course fantasies, not the everyday courses struggling to get by. I played the TPC layout in Houston a week before the Shell Open just before they closed it off to play. Every shot had perfect divots and the balls hit the greens with incredible spin.

The next week, I played Bridlewood in DFW area and the grass was green and lush on top, but hard as nails underneath and I couldn't get the same sort of divot out of the turf and spin on the ball.

On the rare occasion I find myself coming off the tee box with a wedge I will go sans tee. 9 iron or better and I'm teeing it up.