[Craig Sweet]

Is these a course out there were you can use a pile of sand/dirt for your tee? Is anyone still doing this?

[Ronald Montesano]

I don't know about the sand thing, but I use the old Trevino trick of kicking up a piece of turf and putting my ball on it for par threes.

[Billsteele]

Craig-At Oakhurst Links (near the Greenbrier in West Virginia), you tee up with a pile of sand and use hickories. What more could you want?

[John Moore II]

I suppose you could do this anywhere as long as you are willing to carry your own little bad of sand. I doubt any course would say anything negative about it.

[mike_beene]

Craig,I get enough of that in bunkers.Seems like you wouldn't have anything firm to compress the ball into.

[Mark Smolens]

When we played our preview round on Old Macdonald last week, they gave us a souvenir brass cone modeled after the molds that they used to use to make the tees with sand.  Maybe they're going to have buckets of wet sand for you to use on the course???  Don't think I wanna try to play that course with hickories. . . three of the par-4s we played went 470, 460, and 510 from the tips.

[Tim Leahy]

When the Bridges at Gale Ranch in Dublin, CA opened they gave out pewter bag tags that were in the shape of the sand cones used to make tees in the old days. I never actually tried it though.

[Tony_Muldoon]

When Alfie Ward organised a Hickory day at Mussleburgh, of course we had sand tees on the astroturf!

Andrew Mitchell show's how its done.

[James Boon]

I don't know about the sand thing, but I use the old Trevino trick of kicking up a piece of turf and putting my ball on it for par threes.

I saw a pro doing this when I went to the open when I was younger, and did it for a while. Soon stopped though when the ball rolled off the little piece of turf one time at the top of my backswing!

 

Cheers

James

[Andrew Mitchell]

When Alfie Ward organised a Hickory day at Mussleburgh, of course we had sand tees on the astroturf!

Andrew Mitchell show's how its done.

Thanks for that Tony!  Hopefully you didn't take a photo of where the tee shot actually finished.

[Michael Blake]

I don't know about the sand thing, but I use the old Trevino trick of kicking up a piece of turf and putting my ball on it for par threes.

Laura Davies does that and hits driver off of it.  Amazing.

[Richard Hetzel]

I guess that you could at Foxburg CC, seeing as most of the holes still have these:

[Tony_Muldoon]

When Alfie Ward organised a Hickory day at Mussleburgh, of course we had sand tees on the astroturf!

Andrew Mitchell show's how its done.

Thanks for that Tony!  Hopefully you didn't take a photo of where the tee shot actually finished.

Was this the one? 

[RSLivingston_III]

When we played our preview round on Old Macdonald last week, they gave us a souvenir brass cone modeled after the molds that they used to use to make the tees with sand.  Maybe they're going to have buckets of wet sand for you to use on the course???  Don't think I wanna try to play that course with hickories. . . three of the par-4s we played went 470, 460, and 510 from the tips.

Why would you need to play from the tips with hickories?

[Bill_McBride]

I believe the expression "tee box" comes from the box that held the sand to make tees.

[Rob Rigg]

I didn't know they even made left handed hickories?!?!?!

Brilliant!!! 

[Mike McGuire]

On the first tee at Wawashkamo Golf Club on Mackinac Island, Michigan. A little nine holer plays like stepping back in time. Great with hickories. You take a horse up to the course - no vehicles on the island.



 

[Andrew Mitchell]

When Alfie Ward organised a Hickory day at Mussleburgh, of course we had sand tees on the astroturf!

Andrew Mitchell show's how its done.

Thanks for that Tony!  Hopefully you didn't take a photo of where the tee shot actually finished.

Was this the one? 

That would have been a heck of shot Tony, probably about 15 miles!!  I think it actually went about 150 yards and only just got enough height to clear the racecourse rails

Rob
That was a GCA event Tony helped organised with the assistance of Alfie Ward.  The left handed hickories beong to Alfie and were great fun.  Nine holes at Musselburgh with hickories is highly recommended.

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