Martini Tees--Do they change the balls flight?
 

I don't know. I think the ball has left the tee before the club hits the tee. What do you think?

Martini tees
 

I don't think they make a difference. Not in my ball flight, at least. Perhaps for a scratch player they do. On the other hand, I've yet to break one. I played more than 30 rounds with the same Martini tee before losing it.

less so than martini glasses! :wine:

I think...
 

that those tees are for those with the inability to calm their nerves enough to put the ball on a regular tee....for those that utilize those tees...kudos!, but if you think those that use them would ever be able to tell the difference they make(+/-)then you'd likely be incorrect....

According to some tests "they" claim both longer and straighter drives. I have not used one. My Experence is its not the equipment but the "golfer" that makes the difference!

If you use a martini tee be sure to tilt it 3 degrees forward.

To get closer to the hole?:D

One, I'm okay. But the second one effects my balls.

I read a story that a person asked John Daly for advice to hit their drives farther, and he suggested they lean their tee a few degrees forward.

Then they asked how much extra distance they would get, and he said, "About a half-inch".

I love them. Durable and when you have the shakes, easy to place the ball in the larger cradle.

I think I need to learn how to read. I truly wondered what kind of balls a martini tree had, how they changed and what a martini tree looked like. I imagined a sort of tulip or umbrella shaped tree with large, while, fluffy pods on it. Okay, y'all can go back to golf now that I admitted my stupidity.

good one,i'll have to remember that

off topic
I played with a couple from Scotland yesterday that have been coming here for 15 years. I learned that where they come from it doesn't get dark until 10pm in the summer. I wonder if that why golf is popular because at least in the summer you can put in a full days work and still have time for 18 holes.
The were a delightful couple with a good sense of humor. I asked about their courses and it struck me funny that they are each members of 2 different country clubs but not each others. He told me the rough in Scotland is different and that is doesn't get tangled in your club like here. She said that here she has to hit one club more than back home. She suspects it's the air here. They love the villages and found the place in a golf magazine. They also said that only tourists play at the big name courses and their a small named courses that are just as nice but not nearly as expensive.

We never see any pros using them.

Quite normal for me too. I was checking the posts and I thought someone was selling a Cleveland Attitude Driver. I think I've met a lot of people from Ohio that are using them.
[i know what' coming next---let's see get's here first,,,Fred or Gracie]

tomwed I play with a guy who consistently wins club champion back home. He also said that he uses one more club length when playing in TV.

As to tees i do not believe the type of tee matters. consider for instance if your in the rough and the ball is sitting up its as good as being teed up. Beside I prefer to hit the cheap wood tees because you can hit them and forget them and I'm not one for searching for minutes at a time to search and retrieve my tee it goes against ready golf

My golfing buddy from upstate ny says he hits one club less at home.
This gives me hope.
I never noticed anyone holding up a tee looking for the martini tees. If they don't find it right away, and they almost always do they're so big, they step back and after the last hitter you can spot it and catch up in a cart.
Even at a dollar a piece they save money. The last one I lost was a turtle mound. The water was right on front of the box on 4 and that's where the tee went. [note to self]

After two or three, who cares !!!!

Now that I've played my first round of golf, I'm interested to know--what is a club length?

Can you say "gimmick"? Sure, they're great for someone with the shakes and can't get a ball to stay on a tee, but "straighter and farther drives"? C'mon, man...

Using Martini Tees
 

I have used Martini Tees since I moved here in 2013. They are much easier to put in the ground and holds your ball better. I love them.

The longer the club the further the ball will travel when hit correctly. Example: a six iron (which is longer in length than a seven iron) the ball will travel further off a six iron than a seven iron. One more club in length. The longest club in your bag is a driver----it is considered a one wood and it can hit a ball further than a five or seven wood or a six or seven iron.

Golf is a great game.

Thank you, justjim

There's a sucker born every minute and I believe that golfer suckers are born ever few seconds.

A tee will have absolutely no effect on how far the ball goes. Even if you hit the ball five yards further do you think that you'd score any better? Try it some time. Take every drive you hit and move it five (or ten even) yards further along it's line of flight and play from there. See if your score is better then your average.

Want to play better golf and have more fun. Go practice your short game.

I use them personally because they don't break and are easy to find. I do respectively disagree with your distance theory. 10 yards closer to the pin normally translates to hitting one less club. Normally the shorter the club the more control you should have. Hitting a nine iron vs an eight normally translates to better control and accuracy. I brought a member of the senior tour out to the Palmer course a few months back and he fired a 61. Probably because he hit 3 woods off most tees and was hitting 8,9 and wedges into most greens. Just sayin

Which tees did he hit from?

We both played Blues. My choice, not his. We played Laurel/ Riley

That must have been something to watch. No matter what the iron, you still have to make putts to be -9 compared to the course rating... :thumbup:

BTW, the course record is 66 if he cared about such a thing...

We talked about that but he was more focused with his daughter going into labor in Columbus when he reached the 18th hole. Interesting point was he eagled the first hole he played #1 Laurel with a 3 wood, sand wedge and eagled the last hole he played #9 Riley with a driver, 4 iron and one putt. He also lipped out at least 4-5 other putts during the course of the round. Needless to say it was a joy to watch. I did let the folks in the pro shop know what his score was and yes I kept the card.

But, but, most of the people I see at Sarasota or Palmer try to see how far they can hit the driver (which for most is <175 yds.). Do what Dr. WOBj says - practice your short game.

You just disagreed with your own argument. If what you say is true, then if he had hit driver off the tees, he would have shot a better round.

Certainly there is an advantage to hitting it further, but I doubt that you'd see much, if any difference in your scores if you hit a nine iron as opposed to an eight iron into greens. There's certainly a difference between hitting a two iron and a wedge, but driving it ten yards further won't make much, if any difference at all.

I have the misfortune of being the opposite--the closer I get, the less accuracy I have. The standing joke in my regular foursome in NY was that I was far more accurate with a 4 iron from 220 yds. than with a 5 yd. chip! Sad, but basically true

Not to belabor the point but him hitting three wood off of most of the par threes from the blues was to put him basically at the same yardage out as he would have been from the back tees using his driver. As you see on television many of these guys will use alternate clubs off the tee depending on trouble at a certain distance and also the key metric is what distance do they want to approach the pin from. I think the other reason was that he wanted to play from the same tee I was playing given that this was more about getting caught up than trying to see how low he could go. Tells you how good these folks are when they can shoot that low without really caring about score.

There are many here who couldn't replicate their distance shot for shot on a driving range much less on the course where the result at least partially counts. Debating whether to use this tee or that teeing ground or this club or that club is akin to most of us discussing quantum physics and event horizons.

Then comparing any of us to the pros is like comparing apples and oranges.

Bottom line...hit a club you can hit relatively straight and in the air. I've seen more people hit driver that should be teeing off with a 3 or 5 wood/metal as they're lucky to get as much roll with the driver as they would a 3/5 wood in the air. Now factor in water hazards and you see way to many folks looking for golf balls instead of playing. COMMON SENSE doesn't usually trump ego, but it can...whereas continually hitting a driver when you usually top it is just foolish. Don't base your ability to hit a particular club just because you've hit it properly a few times in your life.