Wooden or Plastic Tee?

[dlygrisse]

Usually whatever I can get for free, but I prefer wood as sometimes when the ground is hard the plastic ones just bend.  

[dlygrisse]

Basic wood tees are the longest.  YMMV.  

 

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[RobotDoctor]

Wood.  I bought a bag of 1000 2 3/4" tees several years ago and have more than 2/3 of the bag left.  I don't think I will ever need to buy tees for the remainder of my golfing days.

[CoachCraigie]

Got Pride Proffessional wooden ones cos they were cheap. Still have tons of them left. Bought a pack of Vice bamboo tees in red when I got my bag to see if they hold up any better.

[Lions1988]

I use the plastic 3 prong.

[woodbooger]

Both.  Plastic for warm weather, wooden when it gets cooler.  The plastics break in cooler weather, and sometimes bend when sticking them in firm ground.  But in the summer I can get several rounds out of my plastic tees.  

[MattM97]

Natural wood tees. I was using plastic for a while but found on really dry and hard tee boxes the plastic tees would bend and not go into the ground, wood it easier. Plastic would also bend and sometimes break. Figured wood is easier even if they break, I bought 2 huge bags 2 years ago and I think finally running low. 

[x5andr6]

I choose plastic for driver/3W. For other clubs, I try to find broken tees around the tee box.

[Amps]

Wooden. Hate going to a tee box and find it looking like a litter bin due to all the discarded multi coloured plastic tees lying about the place. Golf courses are bad enough for the environment as it is, we shouldn't be adding plastic to the equation too. Occasionally fantasise about getting some Martini tees. Will have a look at the bamboo ones.  

[thepunch_out]

Wood tees all the way. Sure plastic won't break as often, but it just doesn't offset the environmental factor for me. One thing I can say for sure after buying a couple bags of "premium" wooden tees last year (Western Birch) is that they are definitely more durable than the grab bags at the pro-shop counter. Besides, it's always nice having a half tee for the par 3's without having to scour the tee box.

[Mathwiz]

I have probably bought every version of golf tees known to mankind. I have them stashed in nooks and crannies on shelves in my garage. I have little zip lock bags that look like they were especially made to hold a dozen tees and have a variety of tees in the bags. I have hit them all. I am currently bagging some women's breast cancer awareness pink colored 2.75" wooden ones. For me it's not so much wood or plastic as much as it is the color for finding in the grass. I have decided that white is the easiest to find.

 

 

Edited March 20, 2021 by Mathwiz

[jordanapel]

Plastic for driver, wooden for woods, irons 

[Forrest Sanchez]

I prefer wooden tees. I prefer wooden ones because I try to minimize the use of plastic in all areas of my life in my life. Lately I've been reading a lot of essays about recycling, check that. This is an important environmental issue and it still seems to me that little has been done in the community to address it at the moment.

Edited July 23, 2021 by Forrest Sanchez

[BYK]

On 3/3/2021 at 12:54 PM, woodbooger said:

Both.  Plastic for warm weather, wooden when it gets cooler.  The plastics break in cooler weather, and sometimes bend when sticking them in firm ground.  But in the summer I can get several rounds out of my plastic tees.  

Just several rounds?  Man I use wood tees, but when I tried the plastic ones they lasted forever.

[Hateto3Putt]

Ah, the tee thread has been revived....

 

Me? I'm a Martini guy (neon pink, if you please).

 

Each round begins with a pink Martini tee and a random par 3 wooden tee in my right pocket. By the end of the round I've usually accumulated 3-7 more abandoned tees and have added them to the collection.

 

Every few weeks, I'll purge the bag of accumulated tees and balls. Balls go in the shag bag (overflow in a bin). Tees go into coffee cans on the golf shelf.

 

Over a season, this amounts to many additional tees.

 

Over the years, we're talking thousands.

 

Since using the Martini for 3-4 years, I've broken two and lost a handful. I've given away many and have converted at least a dozen other players to using them. I bought a bag of the knockoffs from Amazon and although they look identical, they break far easier. I keep a few of those in the bag for giveaways.

 

[woodbooger]

1 hour ago, BYK said:

Just several rounds?  Man I use wood tees, but when I tried the plastic ones they lasted forever.

The problem is sometimes I hit the tee and lose it, otherwise I could play the same one pretty much indefinitely.

[BYK]

3 minutes ago, woodbooger said:

The problem is sometimes I hit the tee and lose it, otherwise I could play the same one pretty much indefinitely.

Right. That makes a lot more sense. Sometimes those suckers can catapult out instead of just breaking like a wood tee would. 

[trilerian]

I use the white painted wood tees with the blue lines for the driver.  Makes tee height consistent and I use the short wood tees for everything else.  The white marks come off the driver with a magic eraser pretty easy.  I've used plastic tees in the past, but I lose my tees a lot and the wooden tees come more to a package.  

[ShortGolfer]

Plastic tees.  I've been learning to track my ball and where the tee goes to improve my pace of play.  At my skill level, pace of play is far more important than how far my ball goes.

[jtmagic]

Plastic (long) for driver.  Usually grab broken or left-behind for irons. Our club provides tees at numerous locations so always some left behind. 

[Ghostwedge]

"4 yards more" tee (their claim, not mine ) blue or green stem.

Make 3-4 last the whole season, 100+ rds. Consistent height and NO face marks on your driver. Ground to hard ? Borrow a wood one from your buddy.

Par 3 I use whatever is laying around.

 

[MRL1984]

Wood tees here. I get multiple rounds with 3 longs and 3 shorts in my pocket. When I break them, I pull 3 more out of the Crown bag I store them in. 

 

ETA:

The longs are obviously for the driver. The short is for 3 wood and long irons. Hybrid and anything 6 iron or below I hit off the deck. 

Edited July 9, 2021 by MRL1984

[Moonlightgrm]

For many years, I used wooden tees exclusively. Plastic tees have come a long way so lately I’ve been using them. 

[Dannyboy44]

Just switched to plastic tees with yellow line. Ive used same tee for 2 rounds and they dont leave white marks on my driver

[CougarRed]

Been playing with the same 4 Yards More (driver) and martini tees (irons) since 2018.

[Frankensteins Monster]

Bamboo

[North Butte]

I was cleaning a couple years worth (OK, maybe more like six or eight) of accumulated cruft out of my locker the other day. I found a little container with about 20 green painted wooden tees the exact same shade as the green on my golf bag. Kind of neat coincidence, they've been in my locker far longer than I've had this bag. So I took them out no my round that afternoon and used them instead of the sturdy plastic tees I've been using for quite a while.

 

OMG, I'd forgotten how irritating it is breaking a stupid tee every 2nd or 3rd hole all day long. Must have thrown away at least eight broken tees during the round. I tossed the rest of them back in my locker and happily went back to my bag of nigh indestructible plastic tees. 

[Fellow Competitor]

I used to pick up tees as long as they were unbroken, but it got ridiculous with the number of tees I had. Divested myself of most of those. Now I only use the blue and white striped long ones for the driver, either wood or plastic, I don't care which, and the really short plastic ones for other clubs. I only use tees I've found, only pick up those kinds, and I haven't had to buy tees in as long as I can remember. I recently moved from New England to the Northwest and have noticed that the pickings are slimmer here tee-wise. It's like they actually clean up the tee boxes here or something.

[jjthomp2]

wood tees exclusively. I enjoy visiting a club and finding out they have tees specifically made for them in their colors

[aadadams]

I use both, but only buy plastic. I keep/use the freebie wood ones that are supplied by some courses for teeing up iron shots.