Tee Boxes

Par4QC · 2017-10-11T02:06:43+00:00

What are they like at your course(s)? I play several different courses throughout the season, and without fail, the tee boxes at ALL are just terrible. Sla...

Rickochet

I think it is a local ordinance that anyone building tee boxes in our area must be inebriated.

rsvman

Rickochet "Tee it high and let it fly!" "Trees are 80% air." Lol

ZWExton

Rickochet You don't have a soul-crushing hook in your bag? Or the boomerang slice? Do you even golf, bro? Some guys I've seen couldn't hit that tree if they tried!

I'd be comfortable hitting hybrid with R to L, but I do hit the ball high.

Spuzz

ZWExton You don't have a soul-crushing hook in your bag? Or the boomerang slice?

That hole is begging for a power fade (L-R), even at my age.

Rickochet

ZWExton You don't have a soul-crushing hook in your bag? Or the boomerang slice? Do you even golf, bro?

Yes I play. I will soon be 68 and been playing since 1962. I am a low ball hitter with no hook in my bag an no fade I can depend on.

Ringoblack

My beef with tee boxes in general is they are not well maintained. Often hard and lacking grass. Most courses could do better despite the traffic.

mulegolf

Generally, our course is (and has been for years) in fine shape for a small town muni but the tee boxes have always been terrible. I worked on the grounds crew (greens keeper) for three years in high school and another year after my freshman year of college and they were bad that far back (1965-1968). They suffer from all of the problems mentioned by others here. Back about 7-8 years ago the then club president and grounds superintendent said they were going to start to fix the tee boxes. They made a decent start but, as always at our course, we got a lot of rain and the course flooded. This required money to be spent for other, more pressing repairs. With the general down turn in golf (and our dwindling membership) I don't foresee anything being done with them either. A long course changing revision of a hole or two that was approved also about 7-8 years ago will also be a casualty of financial shortfalls as well.

mulegolf

Spuzz

I can no longer call mine a power fade but it would make it around a tree 75 yds. from the tee box.

ZWExton

Rickochet I was goofing in the "do you even lift, bro?" gag that is prevalent on the interweb. You're too good! You didn't even consider the "how did it possibly go that far left?!" shot!

Two weeks ago a fairly skilled friend of mine was left of the wide fairway, and also left of the adjacent very wide fairway. Probably went 240 forward and 180 left. If he aimed way right it's the perfect shot on that tee box! I'm sure he'd prefer to never ever hit that shot again, though.

Natpharm

Rickochet

I got a 'fade' I can depend upon unless I'm trying to hit it... then that mofo is going dead straight and is crushed 😀

Rickochet

Natpharm I got a 'fade' I can depend upon unless I'm trying to hit it... then that mofo is going dead straight and is crushed

Plus 1 😜

letthebigdogshunt

Natpharm My course has several dog legs and two are left to right. So often I have to hit a hybrid or 5 wood and fade it around trees. I also have to aim at a green side bunker. This is an easy shot for me most of the time, but occasionally I hit it dead straight and end up in the bunker. I feel your pain.

sdandrea1

Rickochet

The dreaded straight ball...............

ode

PA-PLAYA Jeezus, that is horrible

PA-PLAYA

ode

Indeed it was. What was even more horrible was the indifferent attitude from the pro after I showed him the pic from my phone.

In this day and age of golf courses reeling from lack of play revenues, it would seem that stuff like this (stuff that doesn't impact more labor costs) would be high on the priority list to get right.

I guess not.

Typhoon

Par4QC
My God...yours are as bad as ours. " batters box" is what we call them. Tees in the same places so long there us no grass and you are now 2" below the ball.

Our 6th hole is the worst...and it has 5 places to put tees! The front tee is the flattest but hasn't been cut since Reagan was in office...that's where the women's tees are. The other Tees, not a level lie anywhere. Disgraceful. Guy today was cutting the tees with A regular Fuckin and lawnmower.

I have NO idea why they don't close all the tees except the front tee, level them and reseed them.

Half the time you see the grounds crew off in a spot in the woods cutting grass...for no reason...nobody has ever hit a ball where they are. Head scratcher.

My whole course is a dump.

That's the view from the green back up the fairway to the clubhouse.

PA-PLAYA

Typhoon

Damn, Ty.... you just made a lot of people feel a bit better though, fwiw.

Par4QC

Typhoon My OP was about my local area. Now, when I go 'down home' in the summer, they got courses similar to yours.

Damn pics are too large to attach, but almost looks like the same course in your pic!! Think I put a ballmark on my hybrid down there. On the f'ing sole, when the club bounced over the ball!😱

ode

Typhoon tightest fwy ever....that is if landing it on anything green!

sdandrea1

No pics for ya, but I played at this course today and they were damn near perfect, as were the fairways and greens.

https://www.pendletongolfva.com/

puttnfool

Rickochet 75 yards out? That's far enough to driver over, I'd think. Maybe a 3wd.

Rickochet

puttnfool 75 yards out? That's far enough to driver over, I'd think. Maybe a 3wd.

I have a negative AOA and can't get a 16° driver over it. Been playin' the sumbitch for 40 years and the tree isn't getting any shorter. The PGA did a review of the course several years ago and commented that this was totally stupid but the course did nothing. I don't play the course much so no biggie. Just wanted to show a really screwed up hole from the tee box.