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Do you guys prefer to buy a bag full of tees (i think i've seen bags that had 50 or so) or just buy a handful at the clubhouse before a round? I prefer to buy 5 or so at the clubhouse, and if i happen to see any in the course that aren't broken, or still have a good piece of the part that goes into the ground, i'll pick them up and pocket them for later use.. I do this for several reasons. for one, i never think during the week "perhaps i need to buy a bag of tees for the weekend".. number 2, i notice that not all tee's are straight, and i prefer to hand pick mine...and number 3, in a way, it might be cheaper because the guys i golf with will leave a perfectly good tee still setup in the teebox... they always say "ahh, there's plenty of them laying around"... the last time i went out, i paid a quarter for 5 tees, broke 3 of them, and ended up with about 10 in my pocket at the end of the day! i don't know how much tees cost if you buy in bulk, but that seemed like a pretty sweet deal to me, if you add all the ones that i found on the course
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wolverine318 Well Established Member

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I buy bulk. Mostly because courses dont always have the tees I want. Especially long tees. Im kinda OCD about my tees I want white 3 1/4 for my driver and natural wood 2 1/8 for everything else. Yeah Im screwed up I know.
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I just buy a big bag when I need tees. They cost about 1% of a round of golf and last forever. A bag of 100 tees probably cost less than one NXT Tour and about half as much as a Pro V1. I'd prefer to just have them around and not have to think about them than always having to scrounge for tees to save a quarter. One of my golfing buddies never has tees - he's always bumming tees off of me, buying 5 in the clubhouse before a round and scrounging tee boxes for extras. Kind of amusing.

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I use Brush-Ts, which last forever [or at least until you lose them] and scrounge broken tees for those iron tee shots on Par-3s. So I haven't had to buy a tee since 2004.

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Driver Cleveland Classic 310 Tour 10.5°  Miyazaki Kusala 61 Black Reg
Fairway Wood Cleveland Launcher FL 3/15° Miyazaki C.Kua 43 Reg
Hybrids Cleveland Mashie 3/20.5° & 4/23° Miyazaki C.Kua 43 Reg

Irons Wilson Ci9 5-6-7-8-9-PW-GW FST ss105 Reg 

Wedges Vokey SM 56.14

Putter GEL Ruby 34"

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Rynofskie Well Established Member

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I bought a big bag of like 350 tees for $3.99 at walmart. Bulk is the only way dudes.....
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azgreg Well Established Member

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I bought a big bag of like 350 tees for $3.99 at walmart. Bulk is the only way dudes.....

Same here, bulk all the way.

Beware of old dudes with old clubs and new grips.

 

 

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I buy Zero Friction tees in quantities of about 20 or 25. One bag easily lasts a year.

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MountainHip Well Established Member

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They give tee's away at my home course. And they are the length I prefer. 2 3/4. I will buy 50 in bulk at the beginning of the year.

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Do you guys prefer to buy a bag full of tees (i think i've seen bags that had 50 or so) or just buy a handful at the clubhouse before a round? I prefer to buy 5 or so at the clubhouse, and if i happen to see any in the course that aren't broken, or still have a good piece of the part that goes into the ground, i'll pick them up and pocket them for later use.. I do this for several reasons. for one, i never think during the week "perhaps i need to buy a bag of tees for the weekend".. number 2, i notice that not all tee's are straight, and i prefer to hand pick mine...and number 3, in a way, it might be cheaper because the guys i golf with will leave a perfectly good tee still setup in the teebox... they always say "ahh, there's plenty of them laying around"... the last time i went out, i paid a quarter for 5 tees, broke 3 of them, and ended up with about 10 in my pocket at the end of the day! i don't know how much tees cost if you buy in bulk, but that seemed like a pretty sweet deal to me, if you add all the ones that i found on the course

I load up on tees at Wal Mart once every couple months. I can get a bag of 200 tees for a little less than 5 bucks. I'll buy three or four bags. If I don't break the tee, I'll lose it - sometimes when I hit the ball, the tee flies pretty far away (I use 2' 3/4 but I need longer ones, I have it currently teed up as high as I can get it). Bought some Zero Friction tees once, a pack of 50, but I'm down to about five or so by now.

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I buy them once in a great while, but usually they are laying around near the tee boxes so I just use those. Yeah, a bit hillbilly to scower a tee box for tees but it never occurs to me to buy tees when I'm at a golf store or in the pro shop.
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I buy them when I need them. I haven't really thought about it because they are relatively cheap and a lot of courses hand them out.

I am known for using a broken tee for everything except the driver. It's part of my need to recycle and save the earth. LOL.

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bwinger79 Well Established Member

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I buy Zero Friction tees in quantities of about 20 or 25. One bag easily lasts a year.

I am with you iacas. Zero Friction tees are the way to go. They last forever. A 50 pack can last 2 years, and for $5 they are worth every penny. The only issue I have had with them is getting them into the ground on really cold days. I guess thats when I scrounge for tees others left behind on the tee box.

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I buy in bulk, I think.

I bought 50 tees when I bought my irons - February 2006.
I bought 100 longer tees when I bought my driver - November 2006.
I bought 50 Zero-Friction tees on the suggestion of board members - Q2 2007.

I've played in excess of 20 rounds this summer alone and have plenty of tees. It helps that I rarely break one - even when I use traditional tees. I need to learn how to tee up the Z-F properly, and then I'll break even fewer

[ If I notice a good-condition tee on the teeing grounds, I'll use it and keep it, so it's not as tough I'm only on the 200 I bought ]

Oh, I think 2 tees also came with my gClip.

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Jeepthrills Great Member

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I bought a 50 pack of the 3 1/4" natural ones, about 3 years ago. I have about 30 left so I should be good until 2010 or so. I have played the last 10 or so rounds with the same two broken tees for my iron shots. They are tie-dyed and I found them on the course. I also found two of the zero-friction ones in back to back weeks and have been using them for about a month. I might actually buy some of these next year when I lose both of them. I hardly ever lose tees. The only time I end up replacing them is when the conditions are dry and I break the occasional long tee. If only it were so easy to keep the same golf ball. My best there is 92 consecutive holes with one ball. And no...it was not on a putt-putt course.
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People buy tees??? I got some zero friction tees once to finish out a gift certificate but thats as close as I have ever gotten to buying a golf tee. I just pick up what I find at the range and fill up my bag when I play at a place that gives free tees. I don't see spending real money on them.

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wow, i didn't know places give them away.. around here the courses are so stingy they wouldn't give anything away.. if it came down to it, they'd probably charge if you asked them for advice on clubs or just general course advice... but yeah, scrounging up tees on the teebox is about the only way to get anything free on the course... unless you find stray balls... but that's another story...
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Rynofskie Well Established Member

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I break the tee every time I tee off. I cut the tops clean off of them on every single drive....how are you NOT breaking tees is what I want to know.
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Driver:Redline RPM 9.5* Driver - TourLaunch Blue Shaft Rescue: "The Ripper" wal-mart special 3HybridIrons: ADAMS GT500 Undercut Widesole 4-LWPutter: Ray Cook custom mallet putterGuns don't kill people - the proper application of sight alignment, target...
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wow, i didn't know places give them away.. around here the courses are so stingy they wouldn't give anything away.. if it came down to it, they'd probably charge if you asked them for advice on clubs or just general course advice... but yeah, scrounging up tees on the teebox is about the only way to get anything free on the course... unless you find stray balls... but that's another story...

Yeah there are a couple of upscale courses around here that have buckets of tees on the driving range. I make sure to grab a couple handfuls everytime I play there.

Danny    In my :ping: Hoofer Tour golf bag on my :clicgear: 8.0 Cart

Driver:   :pxg: 0311 Gen 5  X-Stiff.                        Irons:  :callaway: 4-PW APEX TCB Irons 
3 Wood: :callaway: Mavrik SZ Rogue X-Stiff                            Nippon Pro Modus 130 X-Stiff
3 Hybrid: :callaway: Mavrik Pro KBS Tour Proto X   Wedges: :vokey:  50°, 54°, 60° 
Putter: :odyssey:  2-Ball Ten Arm Lock        Ball: :titleist: ProV 1

 

 

 

 

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