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Please enter your letters in the form below. Star Letters in Issue 83 Tees out! One generation back, the humble golf tee was a semi-precious piece of equipment and always retrieved whenever possible. Today, like many other “consumables” they are designed to “self destruct” and the manufacturers are having a ball. The comprehensive choice of high/low, tall/short, elegant/dumpy are all made from wood or plastic. Peebles golf course is littered with the remnants of failed designs. Some, I believe, are designed for a single-strike life, catering for these affluent/obese visitors who don’t wish to or cannot retrieve their “consumable”. Having conducted many post-mortems while waiting to drive off, I have concluded that some 30% of these “lives” could be extended by one small but simple design change. The very popular Castle tee, in varying heights and colours, always fracture on the sharp corner where it sits on the ground; if a small radius replaced this sharp corner, tee life would be extended by a factor of ten. Low winter temperatures also make the castle tee brittle and a slightly more flexible plastic combined with the small radius allowing the shock to flow around the corner would provide a much extended life. With these improvements, it would seem worthwhile paying a little extra to reward the first supplier that adopts the longer life design. The big question, of course, is should the manufacturers be interested in extending tee life? Me ? I must confess to always playing with the Scottish tee for all seasons; the triple height trio of plastic tees tied together with string, guaranteed never to get lost and purchased in the pro shop in 2006. Jas McAuslin, Peebles Star Letters in Issue 82 ~~ Star Letters in Issue 81 ~~ Star Letters in Issue 80 ~~ Star Letters in Issue 79 Star Letters in Issue 78 ~~ Star Letters in Issue 77 ~~ Star Letters in Issue 76 ~~ Star Letters in Issue 75 Star Letters in Issue 74 ~~ Star Letters in Issue 73 |
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