To those people who pick up your tee's from the tee box

I also appreciate those who collect broken tee's. Not that it ever helps my tee shot, but i feel better about my chances when the box is free of litter

Those broken tees can do some damage to the mower blades. One course I play frequently has little boxes on the side of the tee boxes to toss the broken tees in....to bad most people don't use them.

they ought to be made of quickly degradable hardened fertilizer

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Those broken tees can do some damage to the mower blades.

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Then why would any course employee cut the tee box before picking them up? If I’m a Super and my employees know the broken tees cause damage to a blade then they are going to have to clean the tee box before cutting.

I’m all for taking care of a course. Cigarette/cigar butts are frustrating and for every 10 people that hit a green on our course, it seems like one might repair a divot. I have some plastic tees that almost never break. I probably haven’t used more than 10 tees in the last three years, so I am not a culprit. But as far as tees, the grounds crew can clean those before they cut. And, like someone else said, on par 3s and holes with fairway wood tee shots I use broken tees others have left on the ground.

Some of my feeling is undoubtedly rooted in public v. private clubs, too. Grounds crews have different standards at CCL than they do at Santa Maria.

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I vote that people who slam down into the ground their used tees be executed.

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100% agree with this !

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for every 10 people that hit a green on our course, it seems like one might repair a divot

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I've never understood this. It takes 10 seconds max. to properly fix a divot. Our greens keeper at my local course when I was a kid would always say to fix your divot and one more.

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Those broken tees can do some damage to the mower blades. One course I play frequently has little boxes on the side of the tee boxes to toss the broken tees in....to bad most people don't use them.

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We used to give away free tees at the course I worked at. Members would just grab a handful before every round. When we stopped giving them away, the mower blade budget went down significantly, too.

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There’s divots and there’s ball marks.
Different repairs but both should be rectified.
Divots are easy and on the course.
Ball marks are on the greens and take some skill.

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Immediately out of my foursome.

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I've never understood this. It takes 10 seconds max. to properly fix a divot. Our greens keeper at my local course when I was a kid would always say to fix your divot and one more.

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I'm constantly fixing ball marks on greens. They are a pet peeve of mine and I'm bored anyway waiting on other people to chip/putt.