what teeboxs do you play from?

[Par Fore]

Prefer about 6500-6600 yards.....get a chance to hit all my clubs and feel this is the right slot for me....

At 6000 or less, it's 3I off the tee and wedges most of the day.....

At 7200+, it's long irons into far too many greens and driver off of every tee, just too much course for my length and skill level.....

[bogeyhitter25]

I play the middle/back tee. My home course is already relatively short, so I really like to try to make it a little longer, and more difficult.

[chipper2]

Playing with others I play what ever they would like to play. If I play by myself I play the middle set of tees. I enjoy playing with others and thus want them to have as good a time as I will have myself.

[azgreg]

I prefer to pay more attention to slope than the tees. 115-125 slope is good for me, any harder should be left to the single digit guys.

[Three Putt]

Usually the tips or next up, depending on whose playing. Sometimes if it's a bigger group (12 or so) maybe the whites, just as long as everyone agrees on the bet is all that matters.

If I am a walkon I play from wherever the group wants to play, I always think it looks a bit odd if one guy is hitting from the back tees and the other 3 are waiting by the whites.

[utube]

As a newbie in golf , I play from the middle tee box

[PiKapp23]

Because of the people I usually play with, we typically play from the middle teebox or around 6000 yards. I should probably be playing from about 6400-6600, but I don't think my playing partners should so I just play with them from the shorter distance. Any more than 6600 yards is too long for me, though. I have played as long as 7200 yards and that's just ridiculously long for my game. My ideal yardage for scoring is usually around 6300 yards, but most courses do not seem to have that yardage.

I'm a big believer in playing correct teebox and selecting that tee based on yardage or slope rating (the higher the slope, the closer a player should play). I heard a formula a while back for selecting which teebox. It says to multiply the distance you hit your 5 iron (or 25* club) by 36 and select yardage closest to this number (the theory being that you should be able to reach, on average, every hole in regulation by hitting only 5 irons, including off all teeboxes).

My yardages: 175 x 36 = 6300

The first time I did the math I was surpised because that yardage has always been a great yardage for me. It seems to me that most of the courses I play have a yardage somewhere around 6000 (+/- 100 yards) with next teebox being 6500 and some have 7000+. One course we play has 5800, 6600, 7100 for men's teeboxes and that is too big a gap between forward and middle.

[RocketSauce]

i like to play in the 6600 yard range, give or take a cpl hundred yards

[George]

I usually play from the middle tees.

[PGA TOUR 2010]

Can you say the tips the only place to play from.

[RC]

Tee box choice should really be no big deal... play the ones you want to play and fit your game. That's why all those tee boxes are there. I would encourage people not to play tees too long for their game just for the macho factor. I see that sometimes, and playing behind a foursome that really should move up is usually a day of slow play. I imagine most of you would agree that slow play is frustrating, but especially so if people are on the wrong tees for their game.

For a year or so, I played a lot in a group that played one tee up from the back. I thought there were pros and cons to that since I did not score better, maybe even worse. It might have improved my wedge play, not sure. I know I lost more balls going for hero shots. However, come scramble time for charities and such, knowing the regular men's tees on your home course is an advantage of sorts -- you know what you can carry and what to hit. Now I'm back home on the blacks and it feels a lot more "open."

[JCDot33]

As with most of the majority here my decision is based on several factors. At my normal course, always the "tips" unless I am playing with people that I know and then I move up to the "mids" with them.

When playing at a longer course, or a course I have never played before, my decision is based on yardage, around 6,500 is a good time for me.

[kingofcars08]

They say that courses were designed to play from the tips, and thats where I play. The views are phenominal, and especially on par 3's, it makes them difficult, and beautiful. I like kitting hybrids and 4 irons into par threes, as well as 8-9 irons. But I have length on my side, so it can be repetitive if I play from the middle tees, driver -lob wedge is no fun 10 times per round, so I like having long irons to choose from, and challenging par 5's. I like to be rewarded for having driver-lob wedge into the green from the tips, you know you hit a good tee shot.

[Fat Slice]

I tend to play from wherever other people are playing from. I find it too distracting to have people teeing off from different boxes. Left alone, I'd play white or blue, depending on the total length. Those par 3 holes over, say, 210 yards...trouble.

[jorruss]

They say that courses were designed to play from the tips, and thats where I play. The views are phenominal, and especially on par 3's, it makes them difficult, and beautiful. I like kitting hybrids and 4 irons into par threes, as well as 8-9 irons. But I have length on my side, so it can be repetitive if I play from the middle tees, driver -lob wedge is no fun 10 times per round, so I like having long irons to choose from, and challenging par 5's. I like to be rewarded for having driver-lob wedge into the green from the tips, you know you hit a good tee shot.

I like playing from the whites and having wedges into every hole, but it hurts my game, and my handicap! I used to play a Saturday game with the members at my home course from the whites (6300) and used to shoot in the 60s almost every time, but it hurt my game because when I got back to tournament golf I had lost my edge. I was frustrated because I was no longer hitting SW into every par 4 and 7 iron into the par 5s. The other issue with a long hitter playing the short tees is that we hit it through the doglegs, so you have to lay up off many tees with irons. Thats no fun!