Is it good to break a lot of tees when golfing?

Question

I broke like 30 tees today when I was up at the course, and I was just wondering if that is ok or if I am doing something wrong.

Answer 1

Does not make a difference most of the time it breaks because the ground is hard

Answer 2

How can you break 30 tees if there are only 18 tee boxes. Unless you played 30+ holes I guess.

Anyway, it's likely you're either teeing it up too high and hitting it low. You must be seeing a lot of rainbow shots.

A few suggestions:
1. tee lower.
2. buy plastic tees or the brush tees. Both work well.
3. if you prefer wooden tees, use scotch's tape and tape the middle body leght of tee. This will reinforce the tee and should last longer.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

You confused me. How can you break 30 tees when there are only 18 holes?? Do you tee up every shots? If you are teeing up in your driving range, then there's a cure.

Place down your tee using the ball on the top. If the ground is too hard, then spit on it, (you may also use other form of water, but we guys spit on it), then push down the tee with the ball on top. Just when you get to the right height, you'd perform a circular motion to loosen your tee from the dirt, just enough so that the tee stands straight, but not fixed to the ground.

This way, you only cut your tee off clean if you swing the club head more than 150 miles per hour.

Answer 4

Hi,
What this means is that you are hitting below the ball so you are also hitting the tee, causing it to break or fly away. If you think about it, if you hit the tee with your club that means you are hitting the ball on the upper side of the club which is not good. It is not a really bad thing, but you are losing some power by not hitting the ball in the center of the club.
If you notice the pro's, they always pick up their tees after their tee shots.

Answer 5

Well,that means that your swing is wrong or your club is wrong.And killed the tee aint such a good thing,but as long as you hit the ball and it goes somewhere its ok. Well if u dont break the tee u might save some money.And im not good either at golf lol.I triend to hit a ball over the water it didnt even go halfway. Oh ya!Well i tried lol!

Answer 6

Breaking a tee is no big deal. It does not mean anything is wrong with your swing. If you want to worry about your golf game concentrate on the 3 fundamentals: Grip, stance and swing.

Answer 7

I guess breaking a tee could be as simple as how much of it is rooted in the ground and how hard or soft the ground is.

Answer 8

Man, some people who answer questions should be asking the same one themselves. Ok, the real reason and answer, you are hitting up on the ball, this is typical for amatuers, pro's hit down on the ball, even the driver should bottom out AFTER the ball is hit. What happens is the ball is hit then goes down pushing the tee down and forward enough to flick it back after impact. You also need to check your divots because they are most assured before the ball on your approach shots to the green believe it or not, you need to start the divot AFTER you hit the ball. This is a hard concept because most golfers are swinging UP and IN when you should swing DOWN and AWAY. However if you hit a stinger, you will hit on the high side or top portion of the driver, Tiger hits only in this position on his driver, never the center, hard to believe, I know, but true I promise. If you swing from up to in and hit the top portion of the club your ball would go straight up and land on your head. Tiger goes through a lot of tees because he purposely wants to hit on the very top of the club so he tees it lower than most to insure proper position at impact, wich will break the tee. However, down and out on the top portion of the club will TAKE the spin off more and the launch angle, BALL SPEED, and trajectory will be perfect for distance and forward spin after hitting the ground. Go to Tiger Woods swing, watch the Biz Hub swing vision, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPJtK-DxnV4 also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy9GTAENiJA you then will get an understanding of how you should move through the ball at impact. This doesn't mean that every tee is safe, but more than 80% will, and actually fly back at you. Remember you need to swing DOWN and away, NOT up and in. Hope this helps. I play on the Nationwide so trust in my advise, remember you are only going to progress as good as the person you receive the advise and lesson from. P.s who ever gave me the thumbs down just keep on buying golf supplies and paying my check, thank you.

Answer 9

why do people worry about breaking tee it no big deal And I caddy for pro's and they did break tee

Answer 10

there's many different reasons that your tee may be breaking.
is you shot straight? right, or left?
tees are a dime a dozen