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 It's been four rounds since I recevied these tees from Optimal Tee, and at this point, I'd have to say I'm a believer.
As noted in a prior post, these tees are designed to allow you to hit the "sweet spot" on your driver, fairway woods, and hybrids. Each package comes with 3 tees and 6 clips. Each tee is notched and numbered from 1 to 15 and has a "measure" side and a "clip" side.
Basically you take the tee and with the measure side facing you, you place it against the face of the club you are using. The tip of the tee is placed at the bottom of the face, and then you note the "number" at the top of the face. You then flip the tee over to the clip side and place the included "clip" into the corresponding number. My number originally came up to be between an 10 and an 11, and I eventually settled on number 11 as my ideal tee height for the driver. The clip snaps into place in the notches of the tee and you insert the tee into the ground until the clip is resting on the ground. This ensures a consistent tee height for that particular club with the added benefit of keeping the tee level with the ground. The tees are made of some sort of durable, yet slightly flexible plastic. The clips are very thin and made of plastic also. The clips themselves have two holes, one small, and one large, that are used to enable you to slide them up to "your" number and the snap them into place. The clips also do double duty as ball markers and can be personalized with logos and such at an extra cost.
 I've heard stories over the years that plastic tees can damage your clubs. Never seen that happen, and after 4 rounds my clubs look the same as they did using wooden tees. The big difference is this: using wooden tees, I would go through a minimum of 10 tees a round. I'd either break them, or after my tee shot, they would mysteriously disappear. Not a problem with these tees. Below, you'll see a photo of the one and only tee I've used for 4 straight rounds. As you can see, the tee I've been using has a slight bend in it, but otherwise looks new. The tee is flexible enough that after taking the photo, I was able to bend it straight again. The bend is probably more a result of trying to push it into rock hard ground at a course we played on the 3rd round than from impact with the club face. These are some sturdy tees!
The initial up front cost is a little high in my opinion, but if they continue to last in the long run I believe I'll come out ahead cost wise. Might take me a while to get to the break even point for the purchase, but I'll eventually get there. The added bonus, and this may be a little premature to say, is that I feel I am indeed hitting the sweet spot more often than not with these tees. My driver is a Nike SQ2, and makes an odd noise when hitting it on the sweet spot. I've heard that noise more often in the last 4 rounds than I have before, and my stats seem to back it up.
Our friends at Oobgolf allow you to track all sorts of stats. In addition to your scores, putts, FIRs, GIRs, etc, they also allow you to create your own "bag" with all of the equipment you use. Got two putters? You can track which one you putt better with. It also allows you to enter equipment that's not in their database. As such, I entered these tees into their database and have tracked them for the last 4 rounds. 4 rounds is probably not enough to base any kind of statistical difference but, (at the risk of embarrasing myself with my less than stellar stats), as you can see in the chart below my FIR percentage using these tees is quite a bit higher than not using them. I gave one of these tees to one of my golfing partners and although skeptical at first, he says he is now a "convert". His drives have been consistently straighter and longer since using them. Now we both might have just been playing better the last 4 rounds, but even if that is the case, my confidence level off the tee is greater than it was before. No more worrying that I've teed it up too high or too low. They also work great with the fairway woods and hybrids. I wouldn't use them with irons.
In summary, I'm pretty pleased so far with this product. If interested, you can get the tees at www.optimaltee.com .
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Last Updated on Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:34 |
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