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Tee colours
edit"• Blue / Black usually denotes the tee used for championship play in tournaments, and is the tee used by skilled male players who have a low handicapand. This tee is almost always the longest yardage for each hole.
• White usually the tee used most often by men, typically those who have a middle or high handicap. This tee is almost always the middle tee between the championship and ladies tee.
• Yellow / Red can have two meanings: if it's behind the white tees, it's usually for championship play. More commonly located in front of the white tee markers it typically denotes where women / seniors hit from and usually offers the shortest yardage on many courses.
• Green tee markers often have shorter yardage even than the red tee markers, and usually indicate where juniors and beginners hit from.
The surface of the teeing ground is generally grass, cut short to allow the least possible interference with the ball's lie, although the Rules do not specify that the teeing ground must be surfaced with grass nor the height at which it is cut."
Generally, this is how tee boxes are coloured, but theres no standard way of naming tee boxes. I've golfed on courses where the back tees are gold or platinum, and on courses where the front tees are grey. Its up to the course to decide what colour they want their tee boxes to be.
Globalize
editIn Europe, the colors are different. Standard, from back to front: - white: backtees gentlemen - yellow: standard tees gentlemen (a.k.a. 'medaltees') - blue: backtees ladies - red: standard tees ladies Sometimes, there are two extra sets. Orange, placed in front of the red tees, denotes the forward tees. Black, placed behind the whites, denotes the championship tees.
In the Netherlands, you may also find lightblue and purple, intended for 'family golf'. These indcate teeing groubds for beginners that are able to hit 80 and 50 meters respecitvely. These tees are introduced by the Dutch golf federation (ngf) to promote their 'comitted to family' program. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.223.51.34 (talk) 06:53, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
- Exact. For reference colors in Europe, see article 2.4 of EGA Handicap System.--Gerdami (talk) 09:27, 26 August 2012 (UTC)--Gerdami (talk) 09:18, 26 August 2012 (UTC)