forward leaning tee

[wannabe]

Saw the funniest thing today. A guy tees up his ball for driver, and the tee is leaning forward in a pronounced way. Looks like the ball wouldn't be able to stay on it, but it did.

When I asked him about it, he said that he started doing it years ago, and it became his trademark. Others would try and imitate and couldn't do it. When asked why, he would tell them it gives the ball more foreward rotation for longer roll. hilarious!

I told him I was gonna steal his trademark. love love love itt!

[mirv]

that reminds me of a story i heard about john daly (i might've read it on this forum, actually) where a guy was watching daly tee off and asked him "john, how do i get more distance out of my shots?"

john told the guy to press his tee forward in the ground far enough so that the ball would just baaaaaarely stay on it. get that tee forward as far as you possibly can. the guy was like "wow, i would have never thought of doing something like that. how much distance will it add?"

"about half an inch," replies john.

[SasQuatch<3]

hahaha thats so funny!
But ya it makes sense and seems pretty legit but it might not be wicked noticable. Its cool how some people have there own unique style and set-ups.

[cstorms]

My Stepdad always tees up this way and it bugs the hell out of me. I pointed it out to him and he said he didn't do it on purpose, but somehow everytime he manages to have his tee pointing almost at the hole.

[coffeediver]

I use that same John Daly story (I read it in one of the golf mags), when I play with people I don't know and other golf funnies or jokes to lighten the mood. Always get a few guffaws.

Barry

[bcavery]

The funiest tee story.

At TPC at Sawgrass many years ago on a wensday practice round Fultom Allem and Jim Dent are playing together. On the 18th tee Fulton hit two balls off the tee and steps aside. Big Jim dent steps up and tees his ball a mile in the air as he has always done. Fultom steps up as if to measure the hieght of the tee and asks "Jim, why do you tee the ball up so high?" Jim pounds one down the middle and says while walking away "so I want top it". Needless to say there were people rolling with laughter.

[GaijinGolfer]

You can buy tees like that. Back in the late '90s you used to be able to buy these plastic tees called, "Velocitees" that were designed to be leaned foreward.
Recently I saw some similar tees that are a lot like Zero Friction tees, but lean foreward much like the old Velocitees did.
The theory behind it was that you would get more carry for greater distance with those tees, but I never personally saw much difference in ballflight or distance with those than I did with standard wooden tees.