What are the different color tee boxes?
Here’s what the majority think:
- Red Tees: Women’s tees, farthest forward with shortest distance to the hole, and least challenging.
- Gold Tees: Senior’s tees, not quite the shortest distance to the hole but second in line, meant to help the elderly who still play have a better chance at shooting their old hay day scores.
What color tee box should I play?
A general rule of thumb to determine which tee box is right for you is if you hit your driver under 200 yards, play from the closest tee. If you hit from 200-225 the next farthest tee, and so on. When you are hitting 275+ accurately you should be playing the farthest tees back.
What do the colors in golf mean?
Colors are also used on the fairway. Stakes or monuments in the middle of the fairway indicate the distance to the center of the green (regardless of where the hole is cut). BLUE means “200 yards from the center of the green” WHITE means “150 yards from the center of the green”
How do you know what tee box to use?
An interesting method of determining what set of tee’s you should play is by factoring the average distance you hit your 5-iron as a metric to gauge where you should play from. Take your average 5-iron distance, multiply by 36, and choose the tees that most closely match that yardage.
What age is considered senior in golf?
50 and above
Can men play from the ladies tees?
It’s entirely appropriate for beginner golfers and junior golfers of both genders to start out playing the forward tees, and many senior men play the forward tees. Ladies can play any set of tees they want, and anyone — male, female, young, old, beginner, experienced — can play the “ladies tees” if they want.
What happens if you don’t hit it past the ladies tees?
Regardless, the premise of the rule is that if a male player’s drive does not make it past the forward or more commonly known as the ladies tees, that male player must play the rest of the hole with his “club” hanging out of his pants.
What is the penalty for playing the wrong ball?
The penalty for playing a wrong ball is two strokes, and the correction must be made before the player tees off on the next hole. If it is not corrected and the player starts play of the next hole, he/she is disqualified.
Can you stand outside the tee box?
You can stand outside the teeing area as long as your ball is within the teeing area. Before you play, you are not allowed to move the tee-markers. If your opponent doesn’t cancel your stroke, you will continue to play with the ball you played from outside the teeing area (also without penalty).
Can you use a tee on the fairway?
Can You Use A Tee On A Fairway? The rules of golf state that you must play a ball as it lies. If you walk up to your ball in your fairway and tee it up, this would be breaking the rules of golf. You cannot tee your golf ball in the fairway once it is in play.
Why do they yell fore in golf?
“Fore!”, originally a Scots interjection, is used to warn anyone standing or moving in the flight of a golf ball. These caddies were often warned about oncoming golf balls by a shout of the term “fore-caddie” which was eventually shortened to just “fore!”.