Geoff Shackelford: The Tee Box Affair at Augusta National
A real-life, Grishamesque thriller is coming in April, full of high-stakes machinations, Southern charm, and unsuspecting protagonists How, you ask, could a closely mown rectangle become a non-coma-inducing potboiler? The intrigue centers around the forthcoming fuss over a tee at Augusta National debuting after years of speculation. Anyone with a golf pulse will opine on […]
Golf’s Most Unusual Tee Box Names
Tiger Woods has changed the game of golf in many ways over the years. One of the least impactful, at least for us regular folk, is the lengthening of golf courses. But who among us isn’t familiar with the term “Tiger” tees even if we haven’t played from these way-back teeing areas? That said, as […]
Gil Hanse’s Architecture 101: Still On the Tee
Still on the Tee: There’s more to the importance of tee design than you—and the author—suspected We have already determined three things relating to the position of tees: 1) The routing of the course will establish the location of the tees; 2) The strategy of the hole will determine the angles of approach that each […]
