Slobs on the Course

I'm looking for sympathy and maybe, some advice.  I'm a returning golfer - played in college, now retired.  Husband and I have a membership at a local 9-hole public course.  I learned the basics of the game in high school, and continued playing through college.  One of the basics of my golf education was golf etiquette.   So, now, when we are golfing at this course, when we get to the tee box, any tee box, we have to spend a couple of minutes cleaning up the broken tees, and the tees left in place, all over the place.  It drives us nuts.  Am I crazy, or is it sort of good manners to clean up after yourself after your drive off the tee?  Thanks for listening.

Broken tees shouldn't be left on the tee box. The mowers used on the tee boxes will end up with dinged up reels. Throw your broken tees in the garbage or flick them off into the rough were the rough mower can chop them up without issue.

Huh?  What would I use for my par 3 tee shots if everybody did that?

I agree that I have a lot more issues with unraked bunkers, ball marks on the greens, unfilled divots and cigarette butts left all over the course.  Unraked bunkers drive me nuts - that's such basic golf etiquette that anybody and everybody should know it, and it's just plain lazy and slovenly (not to mention rude) to leave a bunker looking like a kid's sandbox.

Throwing away broken tees varies from course to course. One course I played had a round ball in the ground for one position's tee marker, and a funnel shaped cup on the other side of the position where players could deposit their broken tees.

You're supposed to pick up broken tees, but my God, it's nowhere near as bad as litter, cigarette/cigar butts, cigar ash, and the vile sunflower seeds.  It's really not a concern of mine.  And it doesn't take away from aesthetics.

If I find the guy on my course that spits his sunflower seeds out on the green.......

Most of the tees I use are broken ones and unbroken ones left behind by other golfers. Besides, unless they are plastic, they are bio-degradable and will rot given enough time, or will eventually end up hidden under the dirt.

The biggest slobs on the golf course that really tic me off are the Canadian Geese. You wouldn't believe the mess they make with their droppings

I think it was Fred Funk who asked a rules official at a U.S. Open if Geese droppings can be removed as loose impediments. The rules official told him you can remove them. Fred asked something like "could you?" But yeah, goose droppings... I need to clean my cart's wheels and my shoes after rounds at certain courses.

Just what I was thinking!