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I use the zero friction as well, because they don't break. I don't believe they make any difference as far as distance. I hit balls at a range with grass tees, so I can go through quite a few wooden tees in a session, the zero friction hold up through several buckets of balls and reduce the need to dig in the bag after every dozen shots.

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For me, the zero friction tees hook. I don't know what it is, so I use wooden, might have to retry, I saw a zero friction but it had 6 pegs instead of 3, might try that
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So 35 Zero friction tees last longer than 100 wooden tee's?

Unless you're playing on cement (in which case both will last about the same - one hole), heck yes.

And Epochs are of the same variety, but a little thicker. Some people prefer those. Epochs used to break like crazy, but they reformulated and they work great now.

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P.T. Barnum said it best.......

That's only if you use them because you think they give you yardage.

Wooden tees are cheaper for me. I haven't bought a tee of any kind in at least 20 years. Some courses actually give wood tees to you when you play there, but most of the time I find all I need just lying around on the tee boxes waiting to be picked up. I finish most rounds with more in my pocket than I started with.

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I used plain old wooden tee's.

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Zero friction... they now make a shorter model I have used for FW. But (sheepishly) I like he blue Brush tee for my 3w. It just is exactly the right height for me, always.

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I've tried the Zero Frictions and the Brush-Ts but they both suck. The ZFs get all deformed and they bend so sometimes I can't get them into the concrete tee boxes at some courses. And the only Brush-T I used, a section of the bristles broke on the first hit, so the ball wouldn't stay up.
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I thought i would like the brushts but theres just something about them, old fas ts suck and break like crazy, so i use zero friction ts cause they dont break and i spend alot time at the driving range that is a real field with no built in ts

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I break zero friction tees all the time. Maybe it's because my home course is terrible and the tee boxes are practically cement.
I dont notice a performance gain either.

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I use the zero friction tees, but only because they dont break. I can go a whole round with only one tee, with old wooden tees I go through like 12.

+1 to zero friction tees. They last forever.

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