Tee Markers

Sneakylong

This past Wednesday I was called out (jokingly supposedly) for teeing off 6" ahead of the tee markers. Here's what happened. On the first tee I generally tee off on the right side of the tee box. Sometimes as close to a foot inside the right marker. The tee markers are log shaped and ~ 8-9 inches long.

On that day the left marker was on a diagonal and behind the right marker. My contention is there's an imaginary line from the tip of the right marker to the tip of the left marker. So as long as I was inside that imaginary line I was OK.

Anyone know what the rule on this is? The staff person who set them up obviously wasn't careful in setting them up.

mcavoy

I think you are right and for casual play I don't see it as a big deal. But in a tournament probably wise to move it back a foot or so to remove anyone's doubt.

Weirfan

dont believe that you did anything wrong, tee markers are in pairs and as you say a line drawn from the most forward tip of each maker is the forward boundary.

Typhoon

You're right Sneaky.

PA-PLAYA

I know the maintenance guys get in a rush some mornings, a lot of work to do. But how much more time does it take to make sure the tee markers are somewhat level and aiming somewhere near the fairway? A string line and level aren't needed, but a 10-second eye test ain't asking too much.

Sneakylong

PA-PLAYA

My guess is many maintenance staff don't play golf. It takes 2 seconds to see where the architect says you should hit your drive (towards the fairway). But there's may times the markers will have you aimed towards water or other trouble. I know at my home course they are not given much direction and that includes where and how the markers are set up.

After I was called out I proceeded to move the left marker up and even with the right marker. That fixed that problem.

swinnea

Sneakylong After I was called out I proceeded to move the left marker up and even with the right marker. That fixed that problem.

My 85+ something playing partner does just that when we mention it. Of course at his age he can tee it up anywhere he wants.

Typhoon

I like that....fixing the marker yourself. Being a public course player myself I see all that crap all the time.

The guys I play with don't call anyone out though.

Usually someone says " @%#ing Ricky ( our groundskeeper)"

fnufan

The "teeing ground" is the starting place for the hole to be played. It is a rectangular area two club-lengths in depth, the front and the sides of which are defined by the outside limits of two tee-markers. A ball is outside the teeing ground when all of it lies outside the teeing ground.

Spuzz

fnufan

no shit.
I do see your point though.

However, on some of the small tee boxes I play on, if the groundskeeper puts the markers at an angle, and near the edges, there is technically no "rectangle" in which to tee off in that doesn't involve a non-mowed area.