Black or gold tee markers are usually used for championship play, for example professional or strong amateur tournaments. Most municipal courses are not equipped with this set of tees as very few public courses will hold serious tournaments.
Blue tee markers denote the teeing ground used for local or club championship play in tournaments, and is the tee used by skilled male players who have a low handicap. This tee is almost always the longest yardage for each hole, unless the course has black or gold tees.
White tee markers usually denote the teeing ground used most often by men, typically those who have a middle or high handicaps. This tee is almost always the middle tee between the championship and ladies tee and is often called the "men's tee".
Red tee markers can have two meanings. If the red tees are behind the white tees, it is usually for championship play. More commonly, the red tees are located in front of the white tee markers and are often called the "women's tees". The forward tees usually offer the shortest yardage on the course.
Green tee markers often have shorter yardage than even the red tee markers, and usually indicate where juniors and beginners hit from. Sometimes they are between the white (men's) and red (women's) tee markers and are used as the "senior" tees.
Im dumb. On my goat ranch, seniors hit from the gold. I usually hit from the white and red. Tee off from the white … usually blast that sucker an impressive 25 yards, usually next to red tees. My course has a rule, if u dont hit it past the ladies tees ur next shot is with pants down. I just play the full 18 in my boxers.
Yes, many courses use gold tees for seniors because seniors won't play the forward tees (usually red) because of the stigma of being "ladies" tees. But I've never liked that. Gold and black have more traditionally been the tips for championship courses. When I reset the tees for our course several years ago, it actually restored the original layout of yellow, white, blue, black on the one course, and then added gold behind the blacks on the "Championship" course. Yardages have been much more user friendly and enjoyable for the majority of players. Nothing worse than watching a guy who can barely carry 225 off the tee and struggles to shoot low 90s, play the blue tees because he thinks that's where "real men" play. Sorry buddy, but you should be playing tees from around 6200-6300 yards, not 6600. It's not about the color but the yards. So we simply changed up the yardages, kept similar color layout, and using reverse psychology, MOST men keep playing blue tees BUT from only 6300 instead of 6600 😉
The Gold tees ARE the senior tees. Red - Ladies, White - hacks like me, Blue - Scratch players, Black - Pros
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Black or gold tee markers are usually used for championship play, for example professional or strong amateur tournaments. Most municipal courses are not equipped with this set of tees as very few public courses will hold serious tournaments.
Blue tee markers denote the teeing ground used for local or club championship play in tournaments, and is the tee used by skilled male players who have a low handicap. This tee is almost always the longest yardage for each hole, unless the course has black or gold tees.
White tee markers usually denote the teeing ground used most often by men, typically those who have a middle or high handicaps. This tee is almost always the middle tee between the championship and ladies tee and is often called the "men's tee".
Red tee markers can have two meanings. If the red tees are behind the white tees, it is usually for championship play. More commonly, the red tees are located in front of the white tee markers and are often called the "women's tees". The forward tees usually offer the shortest yardage on the course.
Green tee markers often have shorter yardage than even the red tee markers, and usually indicate where juniors and beginners hit from. Sometimes they are between the white (men's) and red (women's) tee markers and are used as the "senior" tees.
Im dumb. On my goat ranch, seniors hit from the gold. I usually hit from the white and red. Tee off from the white … usually blast that sucker an impressive 25 yards, usually next to red tees. My course has a rule, if u dont hit it past the ladies tees ur next shot is with pants down. I just play the full 18 in my boxers.
Yes, many courses use gold tees for seniors because seniors won't play the forward tees (usually red) because of the stigma of being "ladies" tees. But I've never liked that. Gold and black have more traditionally been the tips for championship courses. When I reset the tees for our course several years ago, it actually restored the original layout of yellow, white, blue, black on the one course, and then added gold behind the blacks on the "Championship" course. Yardages have been much more user friendly and enjoyable for the majority of players. Nothing worse than watching a guy who can barely carry 225 off the tee and struggles to shoot low 90s, play the blue tees because he thinks that's where "real men" play. Sorry buddy, but you should be playing tees from around 6200-6300 yards, not 6600. It's not about the color but the yards. So we simply changed up the yardages, kept similar color layout, and using reverse psychology, MOST men keep playing blue tees BUT from only 6300 instead of 6600 😉