Sides of a Teeing Area to Shape Shots

[Usmcgolfmkw]

Does anyone use the tee markers to help them shape shots. I see a lot of guys standing outside the box hitting a draw. This guy today told me standing out side the box on the left tee marker helps him draw the ball ( he’s right handed) then he moves closer to the right tee marker opening his stance to hit a fade. Idk just wondering if that helps. 

[Vinsk]

13 minutes ago, Usmcgolfmkw said:

Does anyone use the tee markers to help them shape shots. I see a lot of guys standing outside the box hitting a draw. This guy today told me standing out side the box on the left tee marker helps him draw the ball ( he’s right handed) then he moves closer to the right tee marker opening his stance to hit a fade. Idk just wondering if that helps. 

I’ve used the tee markers to help prevent a shank if I’m hitting an iron. Those concrete markers give me a damn good incentive to not hit it.

[Double Mocha Man]

41 minutes ago, Usmcgolfmkw said:

Does anyone use the tee markers to help them shape shots. I see a lot of guys standing outside the box hitting a draw. This guy today told me standing out side the box on the left tee marker helps him draw the ball ( he’s right handed) then he moves closer to the right tee marker opening his stance to hit a fade. Idk just wondering if that helps. 

I use the tee markers to widen the fairway... and to close off one side of the fairway.

[Usmcgolfmkw]

Oh ok that makes sense, I was wondering why people did that. I should learn this maybe it can help. 

[iacas]

8 minutes ago, Usmcgolfmkw said:

Oh ok that makes sense, I was wondering why people did that. I should learn this maybe it can help. 

It’s all in their heads, which is of mild importance. It barely changes the angle at all.

[leftybutnotPM]

1 hour ago, Usmcgolfmkw said:

Does anyone use the tee markers to help them shape shots. 

It has nothing to do with "shaping" shots. Sometimes you just want to be as far left or right as possible, and for a right hander, being as far left as possible means standing outside the markers.

Nothing more and nothing less.

[Patch]

Only thing I use the markers for, is to look for a relative level area to tee up behind them. Hopefully its in the middle. 

 

[Double Mocha Man]

I love it when the tee markers are lined up with the left rough.  I instantly become a greenskeeper for about 10 seconds.  The rookie grounds crew member who's never played golf in his life didn't know what he was doing.  Same guy who puts today's hole 2 feet from yesterday's so you have to putt over a cup lump.

[FlyingAce]

Most important to me is finding a level spot. I do prefer teeing off the right marker. I use the marker to help with aim since I hit straight.

[iacas]

58 minutes ago, Double Mocha Man said:

I love it when the tee markers are lined up with the left rough.  I instantly become a greenskeeper for about 10 seconds.  The rookie grounds crew member who's never played golf in his life didn't know what he was doing.

Can you elaborate?

[Patch]

12 hours ago, Double Mocha Man said:

I love it when the tee markers are lined up with the left rough.  I instantly become a greenskeeper for about 10 seconds.  The rookie grounds crew member who's never played golf in his life didn't know what he was doing.  Same guy who puts today's hole 2 feet from yesterday's so you have to putt over a cup lump.

I was golfing at the Casablanca course up in Mesquite, Nv. This was a year, or so ago. Their tee markers didn't line up very well with the center of the fairway. They either pointed left or right of the fairway center. I see this alot, but don't pay it much mind. 

I was in a foursome, in which no one knew the other members of our group. We were all tourists. 

One guy kept moving the markers to "correctly" align them with the fairway. Another guy was on him for building a stance, or otherwise changing the conditions of play, and the guy needed to add penalty strokes. Me, and the other guy who were not involved in their heated discussion stood back and grinned at the two. 

Their disagreement became so fierce, that myself, and the other, more friendly guy, excused ourselves from the group at the turn. Never saw them again, and not sure how their round played out. 

It was funny watching them argue. We also noticed that all the tee makers on the back had been adjusted. 

Edited July 28, 2019 by Patch

[Zeph]

I used to do this, but these days focus more on finding a somewhat flat spot on the tee.

On a 200 meter shot, it's maybe a couple degrees difference, depending on how wide the markers are placed. Any effect that has on the shot is mostly psychological.

[Double Mocha Man]

13 hours ago, iacas said:

Can you elaborate?

Sure.  There are certain situations that demand human interaction.  Tee markers aligned 90 degrees left or right of the direction of the fairway because the greenskeeper mowing the tee box failed to replace the markers.  Or a rookie not knowing how or where to place the tee markers.  Or my favorite, the jokester ahead of you who has fun and plays games with the tee markers.  On more than one occasion I have found the markers a foot apart, or placed on a hillside apart from the tee box, or stacked one on top of the other.   So I take matters (and tee blocks) into my own hands and fix things, no closer to the hole.

[Killa]

16 hours ago, FlyingAce said:

Most important to me is finding a level spot. I do prefer teeing off the right marker. I use the marker to help with aim since I hit straight.

 

Exactly. I find a level spot to stand on and then place my tee in relation to the spot. 

[Patch]

A lot of talk about findind level spots on a tee box. Myself included. However when it come to level tee boxes, I have found very few that were actually really level. At least a level area large enough to accommodate a golfer's stance, and ball position

You just do the best you can. A ball a little below your feet, you might want to aim a litle more left. A little above your feet, you might want to aim a little more right of your intended target.

Maybe just a slight club face adjustment (open/closed) might be in order.

This, regardless of what the tee markers are telling you where to aim. 

[Osnola]

As said by a couple of guys, I really do not pay much attention to the layout of the tee box markers.  I find a level spot, pick out a target and go from there.  

[saevel25]

Not that big of a deal. 

We are talking 10-15 ft on a 200+ yard shot.

[chilepepper]

Rarely will I stand outside the t markers. When I do its because of a crap uneven tee box. I never use the markers as a reference for lining anything up except the line the ball cant be teed up over. I stand behind the ball, pic a spot in front of the ball to line up my shot.