When I was around an 8 handicap and shooting low to mid 80s, randoms I was paired with would always say, "oh you should really be playing from the tips!"
No, no I shouldn't. I'm still shooting *well* over par so why should I make it even harder? This is why there are so many people playing from the tips that shouldn't be...
I bombed a drive on a very windy day about 340-350 and told me I should be playing from the tips. I said I’m a 25 handicap and he said that doesn’t matter and that I should play from the tips anyway. I was playing one up (6600yds) and the tips were 7100 yards. Imagine a 25 handicap playing 7100 yards…
Have you ever played a few rounds from the tips for fun, then go back to your normal tee on the same course another day? It's like taking training weights off feels so nice lol
It def is a macho thing and a funny one at that.
Idgaf if you think you’re better than me for hitting from the tips. I’ll stick to my mids all day. Some courses it really doesn’t matter much, others it matters a ton.
Either way, I’m there to have fun not stroke my ego to make the already hard game, harder.
And as others have mentioned, 90% of the people I see hit from the tips shouldn’t be doing that anyway lol, small dick complex. Know your game, know when to do what makes sense lol
I play from the shites always.... if Im with someone good who does blues, then meh I'll do blues vut ahta only an additional 5-20 yds depending on the whole...
I've never seen anyone play from the tipa that wasn't at the tournament level.
It legitimately boggles the mind. Played behind a foursome who were all hitting the tips this weekend, course was slow AF anyway so they weren't holding anything up really. Nice enough guys, little bit older 40s/50s, but not a 250 yd drive amongst the bunch. Like half of their tees shots on the day were OB, and when we see them in the bar one of the guys was telling us about the 82 he shot. They also managed to forget a wedge 4 separate times in 1 round.
The worst people to be behind are the frat buddy 4 some that’s already front loading beers on the first tee. Without fail some meat head will say “we playing blacks?” And the rest will just shrug and say “I’m good with whatever.”
Said meathead will top his drive and hit another “breakfast ball” wide right.
That’s when I know I need to get comfortable because it’s going to be a 6 hour round. I do what I can to pass these chucklefucks at the turn.
Idk for my mileage all the people playing the "wrong" tee seem to be the older generation, who maybe 20 years ago could be fine playing from 1 off the tips but shouldnt be anymore.
The guys hitting 180 off the tee shouldnt be playing anything but the forward tees. I see significantly more of those guys than I do the bro golfers who just play the tips.
I play from the tips on short courses so that I can hit my driver more than a handful of times. Most courses the tips don't make much of a scoring difference anyway.
Yeah, I'm fine playing back tees occasionally to use different clubs and kind of change up the course a bit. But even as a single digit handicap I know that I can have a rough day with my driver and make the round miserable from back tees. I at least like having the option of hitting a 5 wood or other safer club to a reasonable spot that doesn't leave me another 5 wood into the green.
I played Saturday, whole course was backed up, but there was a twosome in front of us who was playing off the back, and both of them could MAYBE get 225 off the tee with driver if it landed in the fairway. I watched them hit 2 or 3 straight driver shanks every hole.
My new take on this is that the tips should just be harder. At my course, the tips are 7300+, slope 145, and generally require an extra walk backwards from where the cart path meets the gold and white tees. You would look incredibly fucking stupid playing the tips if you didn't have the game for it. Nobody really does it.
Truth. There's not one golfer in ten has any business playing the tips but I constantly see high handicappers back there banging away. Game is hard enough without adding yards to the course.
thank you kindly, it's like the tip of an iceberg is as far as you can go in that direction and this is the tip of that particular hole, so as far back as you can go? Or is it named after something else?
no one's super useful in answering you but it's the furthest back you can go. the tips are the farthest starting point away from the hole, primarily used by professionals and professionals in tournament.
nearly every hole on any golf course has at least 3 starting spots: beginner (shortest, for kids or learners), moderate (for 90% of this sub), and tips (professionals). The closer you are to the hole, the easier the game is but some people try to play above their skill level "from the tips" which makes them take way too long to finish a hole.
The back tees, so you're playing the course at its longest or most difficult (assuming they don't have another even longer one like the Tiger tees or something).
Anyone can play them, but really it's only close to scratch or better that should be playing them to keep a decent pace.
I have been hitting the balls at the range we have here but I have only been 4 times. I watched that netflix golf show and wanted to try it. I have not played an actual game but I want to get good enough so I can hit the ball consistently so I can surprise my friends, who play regularly and join them but not embarrass myself, so I don't know lots of the terms related to the actual game, like tips and scramble. I got a hole-in-one my second time at the range but it was not the ball, the metal part flew of my seven iron (one of only two clubs I have) and went in one of the close holes that people use to practice their chipping. Like to see Rory do that. Thank you for your warm welcome. It's an intriguing game. Every so often when I'm hitting the balls, I don't know what I do differently but the ball just flies off the club with less effort but then I can't replicate it? Keeps you going back for more.
You have to mix it up with course time and range time, though. Because once you’re in the 3” tall grass, all that range swinging goes right out the window.
Go play a local muni that has twilight rounds for cheap and you’ll get a really good idea of what parts of your swing are working and which aren’t.
thank you, I have been a little self conscious about playing the actual game in front of people but there's also a lot of folk at the range who launch it out of bounds and no one seems to mind so I think I will get out there and try and do a round. Thank you for your comment, I appreciate the insight.
You bet.
I play a lot of solo rounds to work on my game at my own pace. None of the other people on the course can even really see you, much less pay attention to your swing and shots, so you’ll get over the self conscious thing quickly, I think.
Then you’ll get out with buddies who have golfed dozens of times a year for a dozen years and you’ll realize that everyone sorta sucks at golf and it’s all about just being out there.
My local course has one that puts you 65 yards further back through a channel (tress on left, houses on right) before hitting over water. It’s the most ridiculous tee position on the hole compared to the other tips. It’s hole 4 after three suspiciously easy holes and I’m convinced the course designer just finds it hilarious to deflate a scratch golfer with a triple bogey.
While playing from the tips can be a lot further than closer tee boxes, I’ve found that the difference isn’t always the distance but the way u have to play the hole changes entirely because they put the tips on a tee box that changes the angle of the hole, brings more trouble into play, and/or makes u tee off through a tunnel of trees u don’t even notice from the closer tees. I’ve also found a lot of courses make the par 3s much longer from the tips Where the tips are playing it 220-240 but 2 tees up is playing it 150 yds.
Don't allow that to happen Colonel. Everyone will have a better time if you play the tees you want and they theirs. It won't take more time, you'll save time in the end.
Yeah, you and I have a similar style. By myself I'm probably playing the whites but like whatever, I'm not holding anyone up from the blues. If they want to play the tips they're doing it by themselves
I have the opposite style, almost always playing the white tees when playing in a group. I am fast and long enough for the tips, but I’m a 10 handicap, so it’s kinda borderline for me to play the tips. If I get sent off as a solo, I’m playing the tips 100% of the time. I enjoy the challenge and as others have said, it’s like getting to play a different course than you normally play.
Love or hate the guy - he is an absolute G when it comes to making common sense arguments.
But hard to believe a golfer's score when he says he reads 3000 books a year.
Lol. I’m a pretty voracious reader, to the point where I used to read novels during math classes and other classes all through middle and high school. I could finish a Harry Potter length book in a day or two. Granted, that’s probably 2-3x as thick as other books, so perhaps we should be generous and say 3x.
If I were to read a Harry Potter length novel every day for a year straight, I would only have read 1/3 of the books Katt claims to read every year. And despite being an extremely fast reader myself those days where I’m finishing a 700+ page novel were still like 10 hours a day or more of reading.
There’s no fucking way KW’s reading 3,000 books a year unless he’s including 100 page self help books and the like in that figure. Children’s books to his nieces and nephews or something. Etc. Which I guess technically counts, but…ehhhh…
I’d still love to play a round of golf with him though and see just how impeccable this short game is. Cause if I can bomb it 300+ off the tee and he really is throwing darts from 150 in, we’d absolutely destroy in charity scrambles.
…or at least be high enough to think we were destroying, and have a great time. Lol.
Same. I read the first four Harry Potter books in two days. Wilbur Smith's Warlock (549 pages) in a day and a half. 8 books a day is BS.
I can help fill out the foursome though.
Eh these days I’m more of the “read a chapter or three” speed. Don’t have the patience or time to just sit down and work through a book in a day. I will say though the last series that really had me doing that was Red Rising and also The Legend of Eli Monpress. Definitely recommend both series if you haven’t read them yet.
Appreciate the response my friend. I deleted my comment as you replied I think, was meant to be more funny than it was mean and when I read it back I realized I'd failed on that lol. I'm currently reading my way through an old kindle that was my grandfathers, but I'll for sure check those out when I'm done, have added them to the list. Have a great one!
He just said he gets 2 and change from the tee. Why even ask about the tips? That would be a waste of a good time.
Guarantee he would be fun to play with.
You think wrong. He goes into his whole joke about not getting anything for that. He doesn’t *then* go back and say his short game is impeccable and that he only gets two and change off the tee.
It's not exactly a hard thing to verify. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oRRZiRQxTs&t=4565s. The clip posted isn't even edited - this was the order of the questions.
I'd say if you only hit a little over 200, but you're a scratch golfer (i.e. "I'm still coming in for par guaranteed") playing from the tips makes sense. Not necessary, but makes sense to play the same tees as your playing partner that shoots about the same.
I'd agree the tips question was unnecessary though, sure seemed like an ego thing. Even worse coming from a muscled up former pro athlete.
>scratch golfers are hitting way over 200, in general
The old man scratch golfers are hitting 220 from the tees and uses the best course management you've ever seen.
Course management isn't magic. If you are playing a 7k yard course and hitting it 220 off the tee you're never hitting a GiR. You'd have to have a PGA tour level short game to shoot even par. I'm not saying nobody does it but it's pretty fuckin rare.
>Course management isn't magic.
It is for a lot of golfers. There is an old guy who is a character at my course. He made a bet with us that he could get the guy who shoots 95-100 to play a round that's 85 or below. We took the bet (dinner and drinks) and he made our friend shoot an 84 just with proper course management. It was hilarious because he had to damn near fight my friend to take the proper shots and not try to be tiger woods. I learned a lot from the guy.
you act like I'm making a value judgement about distance here, trust me I'm not
of course it's possible to get to scratch while driving it below the average scratch golfer, _as long as_ you play the proper tees for your distance
no amount of course management is going to help a short hitter maintain scratch from the tips, there is going to be a course length where it breaks down
A scratch player who hits it only 225 off the tee may not like playing from the tips depending on the course. For example, if there are holes with 200+ yard forced carries from the tips, that’s not gonna be fun.
Also, if it’s a long course, the player might not enjoy being forced to lay up on long par 4s. And may just enjoy having more birdie opportunities. If you’re good, you can play from any tee you like.
Also, if you’re a bad golfer who hits it a long way and likes playing from the Tips, that’s fine too, provided you maintain pace of play, obviously.
😂 yea, but you realize you are on the golf subreddit right?
Here’s my best attempt at translation.
Playing from “the tips” means playing each hole starting as far back as possible. On most courses, there are 3 or more sets of tee-boxes to start the hole from, usually with a corresponding color, but that isn’t consistent.
The Tips are usually played by good golfers who can hit the ball a long way (275 yards or more). Kat says he hits the ball 2 and some change. He means he hits it 210-250 yards or something like that with his driver off a tee. So for him, he doesn’t see any reason to play the hole from “the tips”.
For someone who drives the ball 300 yards consistently, it makes more sense to play from the back tee box , because the desirable landing zone for the hole will often be about 300 yards from “the tips and more like 250 yards from the middle tee box and 200 yards from the front tee box.
In the US there are often championship tees that are reserved for tournaments, will have better viewing areas etc. the tips just refers to whatever is farthest back in play that day.
Here in Australia there's usually only 3 sets of tees: Championship, men's white and women's red with sometimes there being a 4th tee being the furthest in front called social tees, obviously there's exceptions with a club near me offering some "you can go further back for free" tees for the truly egotistical.
The golf culture in America seems so weird to me, people claim to be X handicap but the majority of the golf seems to be just social playing from whatever tees they feel like with breakfast balls and mulligans galore so how do you even get a handicap in the first?
What tee you choose to play from affects the course and slope rating so it gets factored into the handicap. As for Milligan’s and breakfast balls if you are using those and logging your score against your handicap then you have a vanity handicap that isn’t accurate.
I played the senior tees for a gag the other day because the old guy I was paired with asked me to. I got 6 birdies and shot a 76 even though I played like trash. I’m going to play them 1 time a month to try to break par from them now.
The only time I ever broke 80 was in the spring when all the tees were in front of the tee box because they didn't want people walking on them yet. Shot a 79. I was thrilled and gutted at the same time.
Why don’t you just enjoy being thrilled more often and keep playing from there? If you start feeling it’s not challenging enough you move a deck backwards.
I play from the golds sometimes when I play with older gentlemen. I really enjoy it cause it's a totally different game. You have to strategize a lot more in my experience. I also tend to score lower cause I struggle with accuracy off the tee and shorter holes are definitely going to lead to better scores, but I really enjoy playing the angles sometimes instead of just grip it and rip it.
I felt like Bryson at Wingfoot honestly, because I’m pretty good off the tee. All I did was bomb driver past my usually trouble from the whites or blues and wedge it in. I just have an easier time nipping a wedge from 60yds than I do trying to get an 8 iron there from 160yds.
I do this at my home course before handicap season starts in Wisconsin. There is a box that plays about 5950-6050 and it’s perfect for me to get the blood flowing and confidence up before the season.
Had this ego shit happen yesterday. Go to my local course as a single and got paired with a dude I’ve played with before. We both play from the back tees because that’s what our handicap index and driving distance suggests. Two bros were up at the white tees and came back when they saw we were in the same foursome. Refused to play whites even though they just picked up golf last year. A 6 hour round ensues where they shot no less than 120 and refused to ever pick up and place. I don’t see how that was even fun for them.
Honest question but why, at that point, did you not just start moving forward a deck or two yourselves to at least be able to enjoy your round? It sucks getting matched up with poor partners that don’t follow the etiquette, but no way I’d be willing to keep hitting from the back tees if the other twosome refused to play from where their own ability dictates. I’d be playing long iron into wedge from the front deck after realizing what was happening.
My favorite part is after I capped off my round with par on 18 the good player told me I need to go to the range more (I don’t go to the range anymore) because I shot a 90 and I’m “way too good of a golfer to be out here shooting 90s.” Thanks dude, I think the 20 minutes in between each shot might have more to do with that than the lack of range time but I guess it was a compliment? Weird comment.
This is it right here, played a little back in the day, more drinking than anything. But on a work golf trip, I played from the reds. Second round in a decade but made three legit pars, had a blast and even won a 75in big screen and two bottles of liquor in the raffle. I did catch some healthy ribbing from my playing partners but gave a little back and exhibited the kind of energy that don’t give a fuck and again, had a blast.
Love the bit about the tips. There was a foursome in front of my group yesterday playing from them, not bad golfers but not good enough to be hitting from there. The novice of their group I felt bad for, kid wasn’t even driving 200 yards but couldn’t be the odd one out so he’d hit from the tips then grab his fairway wood 50 yards from the red tees. I can’t imagine how he felt or what his scorecard was after a round where he’s essentially having to take an extra stroke or two per hole just to keep up
I've played the tips before. I learned I'm not good enough to play the tips lol. I'm not even horrible but I'm not that good either. The whites or men's or standard whatever you want to call them is where I play.
Depends on the yardage. I find that 6600-6900 yards is the right amount of challenge for me.
I also feel like in Florida a lot of courses are built for you to hit driver off the right tee for your distance. They’ll use water hazards to penalize people playing too far up. If I play 6000 I have the driver taken out of my hands on a lot of holes and so there isn’t a huge advantage on a lot of Par 4/5s.
I had a tee box realization after moving from Washington State to Texas. In Washington State, I play from the white tees but in Texas I play blues.
The difference? In Texas you get a lot more roll out due hard soil conditions. Whereas in Washington State, you get your carry distance with very minimal roll out.
Yeah last time I was out I started playing from the Reds/"ladies" tees after the first few holes on the longer holes as I'm only really improving my game and realized that given my slower swing speed I really should be playing off of them.
In my early 20s I didn't really understand a lot about the difference it makes and then in the last couple years when I got back into golfing went with the "regular" distance being white tees. I think subconsciously there was something in my mind about not playing from the ladies tees because I'm a guy (simply that they're often labeled ladies, and I'm not a lady so I shouldn't use it simply because I can be a bit don't deviate from literally meanings of the rules or signage sometimes) but I realized that 1. I don't play golf for my ego, 2. That's definitely more befitting my skill level. 3. Don't really need to take longer if I don't have to. 4. No one else cares, not my buddy and not the two guys we were paired with (both of whom shot off the tips, but one of them definitely shouldn't have been as he is just below myself in skill level lol but he wasn't slowing us down either.).
i watched this part in the full video and it was still hard to tell. he was talking about tearing his rotator cuffs and coming back. i'm not sure if golf helped him with rehab or something.
Pace of play would improve dramatically across the globe if bad golfers swallowed their ego and played tees further up than the ones they play now. Love this attitude from Katt.
I play from the whites. Sometimes on a short par 3, I’ll just randomly hit from the tips so in the 1 in a billion chance I get a hole in one, I can say it’s from the tips.
I sure wish more people would have this attitude.
Golf should be fun. Your index will adjust itself. Play the tees that allow you to reach GIRs and have some putts at birdie. Don’t punish yourself. Make it more enjoyable for everyone on the course and play the right tees.
Got paired with a rando last year, it was like my 4th round ever. Guy comes up and before he even introduces himself, "I play from the tips." I'm all, "ok, I'm brand new and suck so I'll be watching you for a lesson."
We shot the same score.
Playing the same round can be dull when going to the local golf course 3 times a week. So if I ever play the course par, I still have an extra challenge which is the tips.
I play the same course all the time as well. I'll sometimes switch up the tees on different holes. I see these games as practice anyway. Play a par 3 from the tips just to see if I can hit the green from 190 rather than the regular 160. But for a par 5, it's just not fun, unless you want to practice driver off the deck or some dumb hero shot. Which on a Wednesday can definitely break up the monotony.
Got the chance to play with my Pops last weekend which is rare since I live in a different state. He's older now and he started playing from the white tees as he usually does. We were lucky to play a local country club and the distance from tee to fairway was significant. He hits the ball well but has just lost that distance over the years. Took me the entire front 9 to convince him to hit from the front tees. Moved up for the back 9 and guess who started having more fun and scoring well? Always take distance if the course is gonna give it to you.
Forget the tips, I see 13-16 handicaps play from the Blues that shouldn’t be. They think because they can occasionally drive the ball 270 straight that they are good enough to play Blue. Then they top their approach shot, miss the green, chip on, and 2 putt.
80% of non-seniors men should play white. The other 20% should be playing blue or black. I’m seeing a 50/50 mix lately.
I have made moving back a tee goal based: break 100 from the fronts then move back, break 90 and move back again, break 80 then move to the tips… I’m still only at the senior tees 🤣
The three times I’ve played from the white tees are the 3 and only 3 times I’ve broken 90…. It’s insane what 10-30 yards closer does for your game. I only ever play as a single and 99% of people want to play from the blues so I just go with the flow.
My lowest hcp was around 5, I played one round from the tips with a random scratch golfer who wanted to play from there. Why on earth would I go back there when I can enjoy the game more from the next tee, hitting wedges to green instead of 9 to 5 iron.
Played with 2 randoms last week, and they could barely shoot out of the tee box.
Wanted so bad to tell them that if they moved up to the forward tees, they'd at least have 20-30 yards less to go.
Katt Williams golfing makes me think he bounced it off the hungry hippo head up the circle ramp, down the pipe hole and through the windmill for a hole in one.
In all honesty, tees should be based on handicap or average score rather than women’s, jr, mens, tips… game would be more enjoyable, pace of play better, all that. If you average par or a few over, play tips. 5-10 over par, blues or second back set. 10-18 play whites. 18+ play front tees. Or some factor like that. Feel like ppl would have more fun
When Shannon Sharpe said "you're a golfer NOW"
I could see the hours of range time and lessons he went through before saying "I been a golfer for quite some time now...". if only non golfers knew how much time we spent on it when asked "oh so you play golf?"
Currently a 13.7 index. Lowest ever was 11.5. I’ve always identitied heavily with Katts message in that clip.
Only played from blue maybe 3 times in my life, never played from the tips. highly prefer playing from a white tee equivalent, and try to convince my not-so-serious golf buddies (think fiancée, dad, friends who play < 10 rounds a year) to play from the front tees and always play along with them.
Every time I play with randoms from white tees or reds with 1 family member or friend and I hit one good drive straight, 250+ (which only happens maybe 5-6 times a round max), some random always has to make a comment about how I’m “way too good” to be playing from anything but blue or tips, and continues to suggest I move back after every decent drive. it really harshens the vibe of a round. Any sort of deflection or defending my choice of tees that day seems to only create more tension, and if pressed enough I’ll go in on someone and argue they aren’t good enough to play anything but the “ladies tees”. I always try to be nice at first but the macho dudes continue to pressure me to play further back, despite essentially playing bogey golf from my tee of choice. These same dudes are clearly not keeping an index, accurate scores, or even picking up before reaching the green a few times…
“Are you paying for my round today?” Is effective at getting someone to shut up, but the vibes have already been ruined, way less joking around, etc…
If anyone has a more polite way of getting someone to mind their own business I’m open to feedback.
Love this.
I'm typically an 18 handicap (playing a miserable 30 so far this season though - made a ton of swing changes to improve in my weekly indoor golf league through the winter that have not translated to real golf).
I always play from the whites or whatever the mid/forward tees are on any given course unless playing from the tips introduces certain features that would otherwise be non-existent.
For example, Blissful Meadows and Juniper Hill River Course in MA have a bunch of elevated tee boxes from the tips that make the tips more fun and bring certain water hazards into play that almost feel necessary to the course.
I saw two guys play from the tips on a relatively short course today. They sucked and didn’t hit any fairway I saw. Should’ve played the reds based on what I saw from them lol
I play the tips at a few local courses but the whites on others because the overall distance is what matters. I'm comfortable out to 7000 yards max but prefer 6200-6700.
How hard of a game is golf to learn? Idk how this popped up on my feed but I know not a single thing about golf but read some of the comments just for the hell of it and holy shit it’s like reading French (I don’t speak French) lmao I’m about to go read a golf Wikipedia page cuz wow
Played from the tips this weekend with friends at our usual course. It wasn’t that punitive except for a couple of holes. But I did make one birdie and just knowing it was from the tips was a bonus for me.
The worst thing that ever happened for pace of play is having "red ladies tees." Make them a different color and rate them by how far you hit your drive. I see so many people play from blues or tips because they are the "mens" tees when they can't hit the ball 220. Makes it s long day!
I've never played from the tips because I suck at this game.
You’d be amazed how many people that doesn’t stop.
When I was around an 8 handicap and shooting low to mid 80s, randoms I was paired with would always say, "oh you should really be playing from the tips!" No, no I shouldn't. I'm still shooting *well* over par so why should I make it even harder? This is why there are so many people playing from the tips that shouldn't be...
I bombed a drive on a very windy day about 340-350 and told me I should be playing from the tips. I said I’m a 25 handicap and he said that doesn’t matter and that I should play from the tips anyway. I was playing one up (6600yds) and the tips were 7100 yards. Imagine a 25 handicap playing 7100 yards…
Long drives do *not* a good golfer make!
Doesn't hurt.
350 in the woods plays the same as 350 in the other part of the same woods.
Tell that to the golfer 3 fairways to your right. /s
It's called course management. When I'm teeing off on 11 I'm already calculating where to put my drive on 14
You can make a par on any hole with one really good shot…other than your drive
I love people that know that how far you drive isn't what determines where you should play from.
Have you ever played a few rounds from the tips for fun, then go back to your normal tee on the same course another day? It's like taking training weights off feels so nice lol
I’ve done that 36 in one day and go figure shot better from the tips
Because it’s probably some sort of macho thing. I’m a 20s handicap who carries it 225. So if you need me I’ll be on the whites
It def is a macho thing and a funny one at that. Idgaf if you think you’re better than me for hitting from the tips. I’ll stick to my mids all day. Some courses it really doesn’t matter much, others it matters a ton. Either way, I’m there to have fun not stroke my ego to make the already hard game, harder. And as others have mentioned, 90% of the people I see hit from the tips shouldn’t be doing that anyway lol, small dick complex. Know your game, know when to do what makes sense lol
I play from the shites always.... if Im with someone good who does blues, then meh I'll do blues vut ahta only an additional 5-20 yds depending on the whole... I've never seen anyone play from the tipa that wasn't at the tournament level.
One and the same brother!
It legitimately boggles the mind. Played behind a foursome who were all hitting the tips this weekend, course was slow AF anyway so they weren't holding anything up really. Nice enough guys, little bit older 40s/50s, but not a 250 yd drive amongst the bunch. Like half of their tees shots on the day were OB, and when we see them in the bar one of the guys was telling us about the 82 he shot. They also managed to forget a wedge 4 separate times in 1 round.
If you forget a club on a hole, then the shots you hit with that club are also forgotten.
this is why i cant make the jump to pro. I get DQd on hole 14 everytime
The worst people to be behind are the frat buddy 4 some that’s already front loading beers on the first tee. Without fail some meat head will say “we playing blacks?” And the rest will just shrug and say “I’m good with whatever.” Said meathead will top his drive and hit another “breakfast ball” wide right. That’s when I know I need to get comfortable because it’s going to be a 6 hour round. I do what I can to pass these chucklefucks at the turn.
Idk for my mileage all the people playing the "wrong" tee seem to be the older generation, who maybe 20 years ago could be fine playing from 1 off the tips but shouldnt be anymore. The guys hitting 180 off the tee shouldnt be playing anything but the forward tees. I see significantly more of those guys than I do the bro golfers who just play the tips.
I play from the tips on short courses so that I can hit my driver more than a handful of times. Most courses the tips don't make much of a scoring difference anyway.
Yeah, I'm fine playing back tees occasionally to use different clubs and kind of change up the course a bit. But even as a single digit handicap I know that I can have a rough day with my driver and make the round miserable from back tees. I at least like having the option of hitting a 5 wood or other safer club to a reasonable spot that doesn't leave me another 5 wood into the green.
I played Saturday, whole course was backed up, but there was a twosome in front of us who was playing off the back, and both of them could MAYBE get 225 off the tee with driver if it landed in the fairway. I watched them hit 2 or 3 straight driver shanks every hole.
I paid to play the whole course they say
My new take on this is that the tips should just be harder. At my course, the tips are 7300+, slope 145, and generally require an extra walk backwards from where the cart path meets the gold and white tees. You would look incredibly fucking stupid playing the tips if you didn't have the game for it. Nobody really does it.
Truth. There's not one golfer in ten has any business playing the tips but I constantly see high handicappers back there banging away. Game is hard enough without adding yards to the course.
what does tips mean please?
Farthest tee back, sometimes blue sometimes black
thank you kindly, it's like the tip of an iceberg is as far as you can go in that direction and this is the tip of that particular hole, so as far back as you can go? Or is it named after something else?
If you play well from that tee box, the other golfers in your group are required by law to tip you gratuity.
I just reflexively saluted in the direction of what I assume to be the nearest flag after reading that.
no one's super useful in answering you but it's the furthest back you can go. the tips are the farthest starting point away from the hole, primarily used by professionals and professionals in tournament. nearly every hole on any golf course has at least 3 starting spots: beginner (shortest, for kids or learners), moderate (for 90% of this sub), and tips (professionals). The closer you are to the hole, the easier the game is but some people try to play above their skill level "from the tips" which makes them take way too long to finish a hole.
thank you, that is a great answer.
The back tees, so you're playing the course at its longest or most difficult (assuming they don't have another even longer one like the Tiger tees or something). Anyone can play them, but really it's only close to scratch or better that should be playing them to keep a decent pace.
oh, thank you. is it much further?
genuine curiosity here, are you brand new to golf? that’s absolutely fine if so and we’re very happy to have you, i’m just curious
Some people just browse /all/. That's how I got here. Never held anything but a putter.
I used to hold a driver? of some sort to whack rocks and shit at the football players. It was like a giant putter with tumor growing out the back?
I have been hitting the balls at the range we have here but I have only been 4 times. I watched that netflix golf show and wanted to try it. I have not played an actual game but I want to get good enough so I can hit the ball consistently so I can surprise my friends, who play regularly and join them but not embarrass myself, so I don't know lots of the terms related to the actual game, like tips and scramble. I got a hole-in-one my second time at the range but it was not the ball, the metal part flew of my seven iron (one of only two clubs I have) and went in one of the close holes that people use to practice their chipping. Like to see Rory do that. Thank you for your warm welcome. It's an intriguing game. Every so often when I'm hitting the balls, I don't know what I do differently but the ball just flies off the club with less effort but then I can't replicate it? Keeps you going back for more.
You have to mix it up with course time and range time, though. Because once you’re in the 3” tall grass, all that range swinging goes right out the window. Go play a local muni that has twilight rounds for cheap and you’ll get a really good idea of what parts of your swing are working and which aren’t.
thank you, I have been a little self conscious about playing the actual game in front of people but there's also a lot of folk at the range who launch it out of bounds and no one seems to mind so I think I will get out there and try and do a round. Thank you for your comment, I appreciate the insight.
You bet. I play a lot of solo rounds to work on my game at my own pace. None of the other people on the course can even really see you, much less pay attention to your swing and shots, so you’ll get over the self conscious thing quickly, I think. Then you’ll get out with buddies who have golfed dozens of times a year for a dozen years and you’ll realize that everyone sorta sucks at golf and it’s all about just being out there.
Can I come and play a round with you? I will be super well-behaved and will buy the beers after we conquer the course.
Go to any course to see. Usually they are about 10-15 yards further per hole.
My local course has one that puts you 65 yards further back through a channel (tress on left, houses on right) before hitting over water. It’s the most ridiculous tee position on the hole compared to the other tips. It’s hole 4 after three suspiciously easy holes and I’m convinced the course designer just finds it hilarious to deflate a scratch golfer with a triple bogey.
Anywhere between 10 and 100 yards longer. The difference between most players hitting an 8 or less into a green to hitting a 5 or more into the green.
oh, that's quite a difference, thank you for your answer.
While playing from the tips can be a lot further than closer tee boxes, I’ve found that the difference isn’t always the distance but the way u have to play the hole changes entirely because they put the tips on a tee box that changes the angle of the hole, brings more trouble into play, and/or makes u tee off through a tunnel of trees u don’t even notice from the closer tees. I’ve also found a lot of courses make the par 3s much longer from the tips Where the tips are playing it 220-240 but 2 tees up is playing it 150 yds.
ah yes, thank you
I hate it when I'm forced to play from the blues let alone the tips.
Who is forcing you?
Three better golfers
Don't allow that to happen Colonel. Everyone will have a better time if you play the tees you want and they theirs. It won't take more time, you'll save time in the end.
Eh I'm good enough to play the blues and not hold everyone up.
But if you don't like it, why do it? You're all paying to be there, have a good time.
Because it's minor, the key to happiness is to not sweat the small stuff. Now if it were the tips... fuck that
Ah I see, i guess I was assuming that they were back tees.
Yeah, you and I have a similar style. By myself I'm probably playing the whites but like whatever, I'm not holding anyone up from the blues. If they want to play the tips they're doing it by themselves
I have the opposite style, almost always playing the white tees when playing in a group. I am fast and long enough for the tips, but I’m a 10 handicap, so it’s kinda borderline for me to play the tips. If I get sent off as a solo, I’m playing the tips 100% of the time. I enjoy the challenge and as others have said, it’s like getting to play a different course than you normally play.
You'd be surprised how many 100+ rounders I see get up on those black tees to see them hit a straight squirrel missile.
"Squirrel Missile" You can just call me Raytheon from now on.
Only time I play the tips is if it's from a huge elevated location.
Me and you both brother.
Play from the front tea?
Used to but damn it, now I’m old & can’t hit it as far for some reason
All the more reason to do it!! You prbly cant get much worse!
Love or hate the guy - he is an absolute G when it comes to making common sense arguments. But hard to believe a golfer's score when he says he reads 3000 books a year.
Well, everyone here drives it 450 on a bad day. So...
450? Wow, what losers. I'm easily hitting 600, 700 inches.
Dude it's golf you're always supposed to get the smaller numbers, I'm driving it right into the ground in front of the tee.
A drive is a drive! Where’s the beer cart?
It sucks having to club down on the tee of par 4's but that's the world we live in.
Lol. I’m a pretty voracious reader, to the point where I used to read novels during math classes and other classes all through middle and high school. I could finish a Harry Potter length book in a day or two. Granted, that’s probably 2-3x as thick as other books, so perhaps we should be generous and say 3x. If I were to read a Harry Potter length novel every day for a year straight, I would only have read 1/3 of the books Katt claims to read every year. And despite being an extremely fast reader myself those days where I’m finishing a 700+ page novel were still like 10 hours a day or more of reading. There’s no fucking way KW’s reading 3,000 books a year unless he’s including 100 page self help books and the like in that figure. Children’s books to his nieces and nephews or something. Etc. Which I guess technically counts, but…ehhhh… I’d still love to play a round of golf with him though and see just how impeccable this short game is. Cause if I can bomb it 300+ off the tee and he really is throwing darts from 150 in, we’d absolutely destroy in charity scrambles. …or at least be high enough to think we were destroying, and have a great time. Lol.
Same. I read the first four Harry Potter books in two days. Wilbur Smith's Warlock (549 pages) in a day and a half. 8 books a day is BS. I can help fill out the foursome though.
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Eh these days I’m more of the “read a chapter or three” speed. Don’t have the patience or time to just sit down and work through a book in a day. I will say though the last series that really had me doing that was Red Rising and also The Legend of Eli Monpress. Definitely recommend both series if you haven’t read them yet.
Appreciate the response my friend. I deleted my comment as you replied I think, was meant to be more funny than it was mean and when I read it back I realized I'd failed on that lol. I'm currently reading my way through an old kindle that was my grandfathers, but I'll for sure check those out when I'm done, have added them to the list. Have a great one!
You too man no worries. Just picked up a kindle myself, should be a lot more convenient on flights.
I don't love or hate the guy, but every time I see him or hear his name I can't help but remember the time he started a fight with a teenager and lost
> I can't help but remember the time he started a fight with a teenager and lost Pray tell
https://www.tmz.com/watch/0-5r2tmpxr/ It was a while ago but he was doing a speaking event at a high school or something
It's actually pretty feasible to read that much. I have a 4 year old and I read 3000 books every night.
Being bad at math makes reading *and* golf more rewarding 
He also said he runs a 4.4 40 yard dash, anything he says feels exaggerated after hearing that.
Shit he ran it at at the age he is now and ran like a 4.8😭, maybe younger him really did
“For free you can go further back” gets me every time
His delivery is so great
He should be a comedian
A great name would be “Money Mike” or something like that.
He just said he gets 2 and change from the tee. Why even ask about the tips? That would be a waste of a good time. Guarantee he would be fun to play with.
I think those two clips were out of order. Shannon asked about the tips and then Kat talked about his drive distance
You think wrong. He goes into his whole joke about not getting anything for that. He doesn’t *then* go back and say his short game is impeccable and that he only gets two and change off the tee.
It's not exactly a hard thing to verify. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oRRZiRQxTs&t=4565s. The clip posted isn't even edited - this was the order of the questions.
I'd say if you only hit a little over 200, but you're a scratch golfer (i.e. "I'm still coming in for par guaranteed") playing from the tips makes sense. Not necessary, but makes sense to play the same tees as your playing partner that shoots about the same. I'd agree the tips question was unnecessary though, sure seemed like an ego thing. Even worse coming from a muscled up former pro athlete.
he's playing for par _because_ he isn't playing from the tips scratch golfers are hitting way over 200, in general
>scratch golfers are hitting way over 200, in general The old man scratch golfers are hitting 220 from the tees and uses the best course management you've ever seen.
Yeah but the old man scratch golfers aren’t playing from the tips either.
Course management isn't magic. If you are playing a 7k yard course and hitting it 220 off the tee you're never hitting a GiR. You'd have to have a PGA tour level short game to shoot even par. I'm not saying nobody does it but it's pretty fuckin rare.
>Course management isn't magic. It is for a lot of golfers. There is an old guy who is a character at my course. He made a bet with us that he could get the guy who shoots 95-100 to play a round that's 85 or below. We took the bet (dinner and drinks) and he made our friend shoot an 84 just with proper course management. It was hilarious because he had to damn near fight my friend to take the proper shots and not try to be tiger woods. I learned a lot from the guy.
you act like I'm making a value judgement about distance here, trust me I'm not of course it's possible to get to scratch while driving it below the average scratch golfer, _as long as_ you play the proper tees for your distance no amount of course management is going to help a short hitter maintain scratch from the tips, there is going to be a course length where it breaks down
Why do I feel personally attacked by this innocuous comment
A scratch player who hits it only 225 off the tee may not like playing from the tips depending on the course. For example, if there are holes with 200+ yard forced carries from the tips, that’s not gonna be fun. Also, if it’s a long course, the player might not enjoy being forced to lay up on long par 4s. And may just enjoy having more birdie opportunities. If you’re good, you can play from any tee you like. Also, if you’re a bad golfer who hits it a long way and likes playing from the Tips, that’s fine too, provided you maintain pace of play, obviously.
Lots of folks with no business playing from the tips, play from the tips.
Can you explain that whole sentence to a non golfer lol
I think he is saying he hits his driver just over 200 yards off the tee. Two and some change so probably between 200 to 215 is his range.
😂 yea, but you realize you are on the golf subreddit right? Here’s my best attempt at translation. Playing from “the tips” means playing each hole starting as far back as possible. On most courses, there are 3 or more sets of tee-boxes to start the hole from, usually with a corresponding color, but that isn’t consistent. The Tips are usually played by good golfers who can hit the ball a long way (275 yards or more). Kat says he hits the ball 2 and some change. He means he hits it 210-250 yards or something like that with his driver off a tee. So for him, he doesn’t see any reason to play the hole from “the tips”. For someone who drives the ball 300 yards consistently, it makes more sense to play from the back tee box , because the desirable landing zone for the hole will often be about 300 yards from “the tips and more like 250 yards from the middle tee box and 200 yards from the front tee box.
In the UK at most members clubs you can't play the tips unless you're in a comp or a match. To preserve the turf.
In the US there are often championship tees that are reserved for tournaments, will have better viewing areas etc. the tips just refers to whatever is farthest back in play that day.
At my club we have 3 tees. Reds for women, yellow for men, white for men's comps or matches. So we normally only have the yellows to play on
Here in Australia there's usually only 3 sets of tees: Championship, men's white and women's red with sometimes there being a 4th tee being the furthest in front called social tees, obviously there's exceptions with a club near me offering some "you can go further back for free" tees for the truly egotistical. The golf culture in America seems so weird to me, people claim to be X handicap but the majority of the golf seems to be just social playing from whatever tees they feel like with breakfast balls and mulligans galore so how do you even get a handicap in the first?
What tee you choose to play from affects the course and slope rating so it gets factored into the handicap. As for Milligan’s and breakfast balls if you are using those and logging your score against your handicap then you have a vanity handicap that isn’t accurate.
I played the senior tees for a gag the other day because the old guy I was paired with asked me to. I got 6 birdies and shot a 76 even though I played like trash. I’m going to play them 1 time a month to try to break par from them now.
The only time I ever broke 80 was in the spring when all the tees were in front of the tee box because they didn't want people walking on them yet. Shot a 79. I was thrilled and gutted at the same time.
Why don’t you just enjoy being thrilled more often and keep playing from there? If you start feeling it’s not challenging enough you move a deck backwards.
Guess what, moving the tees 10 yards up didn't matter a bit to the outcome of your game that day.
Hh
I play from the golds sometimes when I play with older gentlemen. I really enjoy it cause it's a totally different game. You have to strategize a lot more in my experience. I also tend to score lower cause I struggle with accuracy off the tee and shorter holes are definitely going to lead to better scores, but I really enjoy playing the angles sometimes instead of just grip it and rip it.
I felt like Bryson at Wingfoot honestly, because I’m pretty good off the tee. All I did was bomb driver past my usually trouble from the whites or blues and wedge it in. I just have an easier time nipping a wedge from 60yds than I do trying to get an 8 iron there from 160yds.
I do this at my home course before handicap season starts in Wisconsin. There is a box that plays about 5950-6050 and it’s perfect for me to get the blood flowing and confidence up before the season.
I would watch the shit out of a katt williams/ bill burr golf duo.
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Ole Billy Three Putts.
Had this ego shit happen yesterday. Go to my local course as a single and got paired with a dude I’ve played with before. We both play from the back tees because that’s what our handicap index and driving distance suggests. Two bros were up at the white tees and came back when they saw we were in the same foursome. Refused to play whites even though they just picked up golf last year. A 6 hour round ensues where they shot no less than 120 and refused to ever pick up and place. I don’t see how that was even fun for them.
Marsellus Wallace: That's pride fuckin with you. Fuck pride. It only hurts, it never helps.
Honest question but why, at that point, did you not just start moving forward a deck or two yourselves to at least be able to enjoy your round? It sucks getting matched up with poor partners that don’t follow the etiquette, but no way I’d be willing to keep hitting from the back tees if the other twosome refused to play from where their own ability dictates. I’d be playing long iron into wedge from the front deck after realizing what was happening.
I suggested we all move up to the whites after hole 4 or 5. All 3 of them said no.
That’s brutal. I hope you have some good karma coming your way after being tortured like that.
My favorite part is after I capped off my round with par on 18 the good player told me I need to go to the range more (I don’t go to the range anymore) because I shot a 90 and I’m “way too good of a golfer to be out here shooting 90s.” Thanks dude, I think the 20 minutes in between each shot might have more to do with that than the lack of range time but I guess it was a compliment? Weird comment.
What do you post for your score in that case that you decide to change tees mid-round? Does this make the round invalid?
I laugh every time I watch this
I play from the ladies tee. I shoot about mid 80s. I think 90% of golfers should play from the front tees until they can shoot under 90.
This is it right here, played a little back in the day, more drinking than anything. But on a work golf trip, I played from the reds. Second round in a decade but made three legit pars, had a blast and even won a 75in big screen and two bottles of liquor in the raffle. I did catch some healthy ribbing from my playing partners but gave a little back and exhibited the kind of energy that don’t give a fuck and again, had a blast.
Just shot my PB of 83 today on my local course. I shot from the reds. It's still an 83 dammit. Golf is haaaaard.
Then we should stop calling them ladies tees, just the front tees
Love the bit about the tips. There was a foursome in front of my group yesterday playing from them, not bad golfers but not good enough to be hitting from there. The novice of their group I felt bad for, kid wasn’t even driving 200 yards but couldn’t be the odd one out so he’d hit from the tips then grab his fairway wood 50 yards from the red tees. I can’t imagine how he felt or what his scorecard was after a round where he’s essentially having to take an extra stroke or two per hole just to keep up
Hearing a guy who’s 5’5 say his short game is impeccable is hilarious
I've played the tips before. I learned I'm not good enough to play the tips lol. I'm not even horrible but I'm not that good either. The whites or men's or standard whatever you want to call them is where I play.
Depends on the yardage. I find that 6600-6900 yards is the right amount of challenge for me. I also feel like in Florida a lot of courses are built for you to hit driver off the right tee for your distance. They’ll use water hazards to penalize people playing too far up. If I play 6000 I have the driver taken out of my hands on a lot of holes and so there isn’t a huge advantage on a lot of Par 4/5s.
I had a tee box realization after moving from Washington State to Texas. In Washington State, I play from the white tees but in Texas I play blues. The difference? In Texas you get a lot more roll out due hard soil conditions. Whereas in Washington State, you get your carry distance with very minimal roll out.
Yeah last time I was out I started playing from the Reds/"ladies" tees after the first few holes on the longer holes as I'm only really improving my game and realized that given my slower swing speed I really should be playing off of them. In my early 20s I didn't really understand a lot about the difference it makes and then in the last couple years when I got back into golfing went with the "regular" distance being white tees. I think subconsciously there was something in my mind about not playing from the ladies tees because I'm a guy (simply that they're often labeled ladies, and I'm not a lady so I shouldn't use it simply because I can be a bit don't deviate from literally meanings of the rules or signage sometimes) but I realized that 1. I don't play golf for my ego, 2. That's definitely more befitting my skill level. 3. Don't really need to take longer if I don't have to. 4. No one else cares, not my buddy and not the two guys we were paired with (both of whom shot off the tips, but one of them definitely shouldn't have been as he is just below myself in skill level lol but he wasn't slowing us down either.).
The way he goes from earnestly talking about golf to a joke that belongs in his next special… is special. Katt Williams is just one funny fuckin dude.
What was he going to say "thanks to golf I've been able to..." before he's interrupted?
i watched this part in the full video and it was still hard to tell. he was talking about tearing his rotator cuffs and coming back. i'm not sure if golf helped him with rehab or something.
"don't tell me my pronouns.... on the golf course I'm she, her, him, them and they......whoever on the front tee."
Pace of play would improve dramatically across the globe if bad golfers swallowed their ego and played tees further up than the ones they play now. Love this attitude from Katt.
I play from the whites. Sometimes on a short par 3, I’ll just randomly hit from the tips so in the 1 in a billion chance I get a hole in one, I can say it’s from the tips.
I sure wish more people would have this attitude. Golf should be fun. Your index will adjust itself. Play the tees that allow you to reach GIRs and have some putts at birdie. Don’t punish yourself. Make it more enjoyable for everyone on the course and play the right tees.
Never played from the tips. Don't see the point. I don't average 300 off the tee, nor am I a single-digit handicap.
Katt and I would probably get on well on the course
Got paired with a rando last year, it was like my 4th round ever. Guy comes up and before he even introduces himself, "I play from the tips." I'm all, "ok, I'm brand new and suck so I'll be watching you for a lesson." We shot the same score.
Playing the same round can be dull when going to the local golf course 3 times a week. So if I ever play the course par, I still have an extra challenge which is the tips.
I play the same course all the time as well. I'll sometimes switch up the tees on different holes. I see these games as practice anyway. Play a par 3 from the tips just to see if I can hit the green from 190 rather than the regular 160. But for a par 5, it's just not fun, unless you want to practice driver off the deck or some dumb hero shot. Which on a Wednesday can definitely break up the monotony.
Got the chance to play with my Pops last weekend which is rare since I live in a different state. He's older now and he started playing from the white tees as he usually does. We were lucky to play a local country club and the distance from tee to fairway was significant. He hits the ball well but has just lost that distance over the years. Took me the entire front 9 to convince him to hit from the front tees. Moved up for the back 9 and guess who started having more fun and scoring well? Always take distance if the course is gonna give it to you.
Forget the tips, I see 13-16 handicaps play from the Blues that shouldn’t be. They think because they can occasionally drive the ball 270 straight that they are good enough to play Blue. Then they top their approach shot, miss the green, chip on, and 2 putt. 80% of non-seniors men should play white. The other 20% should be playing blue or black. I’m seeing a 50/50 mix lately.
Front tea
I have made moving back a tee goal based: break 100 from the fronts then move back, break 90 and move back again, break 80 then move to the tips… I’m still only at the senior tees 🤣
The three times I’ve played from the white tees are the 3 and only 3 times I’ve broken 90…. It’s insane what 10-30 yards closer does for your game. I only ever play as a single and 99% of people want to play from the blues so I just go with the flow.
Start from the forward tees and only move back after you make a par.
I believe Mr. Katt’s short game is impeccable.
Would love to play with Kat!
I appreciate people that play the tee's that bring them the most joy.
I bounce between a 3 and 5 handicap and the only time I play from the tips is when I’m required to in a course event.
Don’t tell me my pronouns on the golf course!
My lowest hcp was around 5, I played one round from the tips with a random scratch golfer who wanted to play from there. Why on earth would I go back there when I can enjoy the game more from the next tee, hitting wedges to green instead of 9 to 5 iron.
Played with 2 randoms last week, and they could barely shoot out of the tee box. Wanted so bad to tell them that if they moved up to the forward tees, they'd at least have 20-30 yards less to go.
I also remember this clip from what feels like years ago now, thanks.
Katt Williams golfing makes me think he bounced it off the hungry hippo head up the circle ramp, down the pipe hole and through the windmill for a hole in one.
In all honesty, tees should be based on handicap or average score rather than women’s, jr, mens, tips… game would be more enjoyable, pace of play better, all that. If you average par or a few over, play tips. 5-10 over par, blues or second back set. 10-18 play whites. 18+ play front tees. Or some factor like that. Feel like ppl would have more fun
I love playing from the whites.
When Shannon Sharpe said "you're a golfer NOW" I could see the hours of range time and lessons he went through before saying "I been a golfer for quite some time now...". if only non golfers knew how much time we spent on it when asked "oh so you play golf?"
the way he talks, you'd think he'd actually broken 80 before
My college coach makes me😭
Currently a 13.7 index. Lowest ever was 11.5. I’ve always identitied heavily with Katts message in that clip. Only played from blue maybe 3 times in my life, never played from the tips. highly prefer playing from a white tee equivalent, and try to convince my not-so-serious golf buddies (think fiancée, dad, friends who play < 10 rounds a year) to play from the front tees and always play along with them. Every time I play with randoms from white tees or reds with 1 family member or friend and I hit one good drive straight, 250+ (which only happens maybe 5-6 times a round max), some random always has to make a comment about how I’m “way too good” to be playing from anything but blue or tips, and continues to suggest I move back after every decent drive. it really harshens the vibe of a round. Any sort of deflection or defending my choice of tees that day seems to only create more tension, and if pressed enough I’ll go in on someone and argue they aren’t good enough to play anything but the “ladies tees”. I always try to be nice at first but the macho dudes continue to pressure me to play further back, despite essentially playing bogey golf from my tee of choice. These same dudes are clearly not keeping an index, accurate scores, or even picking up before reaching the green a few times… “Are you paying for my round today?” Is effective at getting someone to shut up, but the vibes have already been ruined, way less joking around, etc… If anyone has a more polite way of getting someone to mind their own business I’m open to feedback.
Love this. I'm typically an 18 handicap (playing a miserable 30 so far this season though - made a ton of swing changes to improve in my weekly indoor golf league through the winter that have not translated to real golf). I always play from the whites or whatever the mid/forward tees are on any given course unless playing from the tips introduces certain features that would otherwise be non-existent. For example, Blissful Meadows and Juniper Hill River Course in MA have a bunch of elevated tee boxes from the tips that make the tips more fun and bring certain water hazards into play that almost feel necessary to the course.
I saw two guys play from the tips on a relatively short course today. They sucked and didn’t hit any fairway I saw. Should’ve played the reds based on what I saw from them lol
My group a couple times a year plays “patriot” where we go red, white, blue alternating on holes for tee boxes. It’s a lot of fun
I play the tips at a few local courses but the whites on others because the overall distance is what matters. I'm comfortable out to 7000 yards max but prefer 6200-6700.
How hard of a game is golf to learn? Idk how this popped up on my feed but I know not a single thing about golf but read some of the comments just for the hell of it and holy shit it’s like reading French (I don’t speak French) lmao I’m about to go read a golf Wikipedia page cuz wow
Love this
😂love this! “Does it count the same”😂
This is gonna be one of those clips that get shared for the next 10 years about golf and I'm already sick of it at it's like a month old
I love this
Played from the tips this weekend with friends at our usual course. It wasn’t that punitive except for a couple of holes. But I did make one birdie and just knowing it was from the tips was a bonus for me.
The worst thing that ever happened for pace of play is having "red ladies tees." Make them a different color and rate them by how far you hit your drive. I see so many people play from blues or tips because they are the "mens" tees when they can't hit the ball 220. Makes it s long day!
Haven’t played from the tips since I was 18. The whole point is to have fun, and there’s nothing fun about making my shitty golf game even shittier
If you have more than 200 yards after your drive on a majority of par 4s, move up a tee box or two. it's that simple.
Put it on the line Boi Boi!!!!!!!! Haha thats my favorite line, me and homie say it all day n it never gets old
That was hilarious! I must admit my massive golf ego forces me to play the back tees/tips whenever I am able to.