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Slanted tee boxes
Posted on 8/10/23 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 8/10/23 at 1:25 pm
It’s frustrating when you get to a tee box and the whole thing is slanted giving you an uneven tee shot.
I was thinking about this today, is this something courses do as a feature or is it just crappy course maintenance?
Does a pro ever deal with an intentionally slanted tee box?
I was thinking about this today, is this something courses do as a feature or is it just crappy course maintenance?
Does a pro ever deal with an intentionally slanted tee box?
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Posted on 8/10/23 at 1:29 pm to Tiger1242
A bit of both. Some world class golf courses have uneven tee boxes to promote a certain shot shape. Then some have them because they are goat ranches.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 1:36 pm to Tiger1242
Posted on 8/10/23 at 2:10 pm to Tiger1242
Played a course the other day that had the tee markers pointing you straight into a tree 50 yards away 
Posted on 8/10/23 at 3:21 pm to Tyga Woods
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Played a course the other day that had the tee markers pointing you straight into a tree 50 yards away
I hate that. I can't stand the #11 tee box at Webb for this reason. Seems like I can never get lined up like I should for some reason on that tee box.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 5:05 pm to Tyga Woods
Yea half the time it’s just the guys cutting the grass who throw the tee markers down wherever they feel like in the moment. I had one today that was slanted right and pointed right at a tree on the left. So I guess I was supposed to hit a swinging draw driver around the tree with the ball below my feet
Posted on 8/10/23 at 5:23 pm to Tyga Woods
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tee markers pointing you straight into a tree 50 yards away
I've done that a couple times setting up the course with a real bad hangover. Or to frick with that group that has to go off at the crack of dawn.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:21 pm to Tiger1242
I’ll move em when I see that shite. I’m simple minded and it messes my alignment up
This post was edited on 8/10/23 at 8:05 pm
Posted on 8/10/23 at 8:10 pm to Tyga Woods
Yea I tried to be a big dog and pull it off.
I pulled it alright, right into that fricking tree…
I pulled it alright, right into that fricking tree…
Posted on 8/10/23 at 8:10 pm to Tiger1242
Tee markets are not an alignment aid. Pete Dye, Alistair Mackenzie are two well known designers that challenge you alignment using off angle tees.
Often it is prolly the result of lazy setup guys but not always.
You can always use the club length you are permitted to tee behind the markers to improve your alignment.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 8:57 pm to Tiger1242
Posted on 8/10/23 at 9:40 pm to Tiger1242
On the course in Council Bluffs during the week of the College World Series. They had one hole where they were rebuilding all of the tee boxes.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 10:24 pm to 18handicap
that looks like some Club Pro Guy shite
Posted on 8/11/23 at 5:57 am to Tyga Woods
Yeah it was pretty funny. The public course there next to Harrahs was so much nicer than 90% of the public courses here in Houston. With my senior rate, I played for $32.
The group they put me with had one guy hitting from the black, 2 of us at yellow & 1 woman at red. It was funny to see all 4 of us at the same place...
Because of the construction that became a 210 yard par 4 with a pond in front. The tips guy hit over the green in the brush while the rest of us laid up and did better. The pond was the equalizer.
The group they put me with had one guy hitting from the black, 2 of us at yellow & 1 woman at red. It was funny to see all 4 of us at the same place...
Because of the construction that became a 210 yard par 4 with a pond in front. The tips guy hit over the green in the brush while the rest of us laid up and did better. The pond was the equalizer.
This post was edited on 8/11/23 at 5:59 am
Posted on 8/11/23 at 8:08 am to Tiger1242
We play a nine hole par 3 two man scramble each Tuesday. Got so pissed about the different uphill, downhill tee boxes with no grass I had to take on the job myself.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 8:27 am to RedHawk
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I can't stand the #11 tee box at Webb for this reason
First hole I thought of reading this thread title. frick that tee box.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 8:43 am to Tiger1242
#8 at Santa Maria:
At least one of the tee boxes is sloped front to back. As someone whose miss is a hook, I hated that hole with OB on the left.
At least one of the tee boxes is sloped front to back. As someone whose miss is a hook, I hated that hole with OB on the left.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 9:24 am to Tigerbythetale
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designers that challenge you alignment using off angle tees.
Are there any “designers” that always align the tee box to the target?
Posted on 8/11/23 at 10:10 am to Tiger1242
I played with a friend at Howell park(I think) that everytime he got to a slanted tee box, he would swear that he would rent a dozer one night and level them off.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 10:45 am to Tiger1242
I'll take slanted over hump-backed. There's a couple at The Links that drive me crazy.
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