Golf Tees Tee Markers

Tee markers are traditionally colour coded as follows:

• White: full length distance for each hole, being used for competitions.
• Yellow: a daily position, which is for general play and is used for men’s teeing off locations.
• Red: used for ladies teeing off locations.

Moving tee markers on a daily basis will help to spread wear more uniformly across the entire teeing area and will also allow divoted areas to be more readily re-established. The actual frequency of moving tee markers will be influenced by the amount of usage taking place and the extent of damage or divoting caused. Light usage with minimal divoting may only require tee markers to be moved twice a week.

A typical distance to move tee markers might be 1-metre forwards or backwards each day, but not going over previously used lines for at least a fortnight. However, with large tees this might be complemented by the use of sectioning the tee into a front, middle and back section, using one position from each on consecutive days and then returning to the first section used on day 4, but with the teeing location being 1-metre form the one previously used.

Where a course has the benefit of wide tees, then positioning one marker at the edge of the tee and the other in the middle of the tee can help to maximise use of the teeing area. If the full width of a large tee is consistently made available to golfers, it often results that only the equivalent of half of the tee is used as this proves the most popular teeing offline for players. It is this are which is only worn.

Encouraging golfers onto both halves of a tee width can be achieved by only positioning one tee marker halfway across the tee, the other half can be used either the next day or at a later date. Clearly this does assume that most golfers will follow the tee layout and not move the marker from within the tee to the other side, or just ignore it altogether and still tee off outside of the marker.

The positioning of tee markers also needs to consider that both left and right-handed players may be using the course. This will be an important consideration for where just half a width of a tee is to be used so as not to disadvantage some players due to the position of trees and branches which might unfairly penalise one type of player over the other.