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\"EpochWe’ve previously written about the epoch-3 tees from Evolve Golf<\/a> here at The Sand Trap .com in an article titled “Tees Me<\/a>.” We’ve even reviewed another kind of tee<\/a>, the Brush-T. What is up with all of these tee reviews? Tees are just a peg? You put your ball on them, then you hit the ball hard. Simple, right?<\/p>\n

Not so, says Evolve Golf (and the Brush-T folks). When a ball is struck from a standard wooden tee, friction between the tee and the ball at the moment of impact can have a dramatic effect on both the distance and accuracy of your drives. This is true of deflection as well: the relatively hard lip of a standard wooden tee can redirect your ball slightly, imparting spin and sending it in the wrong direction. The Brush-T, for example, can grant you up to an extra four yards and 3% better accuracy! The epoch-3 was independently tested to deliver an extra 1.81 yards in distance and 2.34 yards more accuracy.
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\nWhile things like that are easy to test with swing robots, they’re inordinately difficult to test with your typical amateur player. The Brush-T may help as a swing thought, but we can’t test whether our balls went straighter or farther. The same is true of the epoch-3: it’s tough to test “in real life.” We can’t deny that the premise makes sense.<\/p>\n

\"EpochBased on what Evolve calls “Pure Launch Technology” (and for which they seemingly have a trademark), the epoch-3 tee reduces tee-to-ball contact by about 90% over traditional wooden tees. Essentially, the epoch-3 is just like a wooden tee except:<\/p>\n

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  1. Four grooves have been cut from the circumference to minimize contact with the golf ball.<\/li>\n
  2. The center of the tee has been depressed so that your golf ball rests only on the outer edges of the tee.<\/li>\n
  3. Those outer edges have been precision molded to be very smooth and consistent.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Instead of resting on flexible bristles, as with the Brush-T, the ball rests on four little posts, similar to resting a golf ball on a rook from a chess set (see right). Again, the science of this makes sense. The practice is the teller.<\/p>\n

    (See updates below.)<\/em><\/p>\n

    In practice, well… my advice is simple: stick to the wooden tees. We were sent sixteen tees for review (16 epochs run $5<\/a>). Wooden tees cost less than a nickel apiece<\/a> (and many courses supply them free).<\/s><\/p>\n

    We played the epoch tees on two separate occasions. The temperatures were 50° and 65°. We carried the tees in our pocket, so they were near to body temperature. The sixteen tees we had lasted exactly sixteen tee shots with drivers and 3-woods. One shot apiece? Yep. The tees shattered on every single shot<\/em>. The shots were all solid: 220+ with the 3W and 250+ with the drivers. And when we say shattered, we mean into pieces: three, four, even five or six pieces.<\/s><\/p>\n

    I’m glad that the tees are biodegradable, because we couldn’t even find all of the pieces. Is an extra 1.81 yards worth 30¢\/tee?<\/s><\/p>\n

    I don’t think so.<\/s><\/p>\n

    Update:<\/strong> Evolve Golf has delayed the launch of the Epoch tees to fix the durability issues noted in the review above. We’ll be publishing a follow-up review in the coming weeks. Look below for the link.<\/p>\n

    Update #2:<\/strong> The Epoch tee no longer breaks. Ignore the stricken information above, and pick up here:<\/p>\n

    In practice, it’s difficult to determine whether or not the ball has gone further. Humans aren’t, after all, precision machines. For those kinds of numbers, you have to fall back on the machine-testing, and those results speak for themselves: the Epoch tees allow you to hit the ball further and straighter.<\/p>\n

    What’s more, with the re-formulation of the Epoch tees composition, the tees are now surprisingly durable. I used one tee on 21 driving holes before it broke, and the next tee lasted even more before my driver flipped it into a creek (the tees themselves can travel surprising distances!). Rounds were played in anywhere from 50° to 80° weather.<\/p>\n

    The only situation not suitable for the Epoch: par 3s. For those, well, you’ll just have to find a broken tee on which to peg your ball. Should you shatter (or lose) an Epoch tee, it’s nice to know that they’re biodegradeable, though they don’t often biodegrade quickly enough to avoid causing slight damage to mowing equipment. As with any tee, pick up the pieces and discard them properly.<\/p>\n

    Though we didn’t like the Epoch tees before, the new nearly unbreakable formulation has warranted a 180-degree reversal of our opinion before: the Epoch tees are durable and sturdy. Testing says they may help you hit the ball further and straighter, and without any evidence to the contrary, we recommend them heartily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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