Welcome to FreeTimeAction.com

If you are looking for value for money / cheap items for your free time action activities then we are here to help. We set up the site to offer value for money goods in activities you carry out in your free time. Starting with golf, we are looking to constantly expand our range.  All our goods are of the highest quality.  We have a no quibble money back guarantee so please look around and tell us what you think. 

If you like the value for money cheap products in our shop, why not buy a thing or two and tell your fiends. 

We don't just sell white wooden golf tees in small quantities, we have a bulk and wholesale section for retailers and traders wishing to buy in bulk.

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John Wellwood
Founder

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Information About Golf Tees

History of Golf Tees

Historians and Golfers, all say that the 'tee' is the area from which you play.  Sand would be used in the early days to make a tee within one club length of the previous hole; this was later expanded to within two and four club lengths.  To get a clear shot, players were allowed to elevate the ball on a tuitje, which was a small pile of sand, this was the first type of golf tee known.   The word tee itself is derived from the Gaelic word 'tigh' meaning ‘house’ and is related to the 'house' in curling (the coloured circles).  The use of sand piles to make the “tee” was a messy job, and towels and water were provided to wash the golfers' hands; today golf towels are used to wash the golf balls. Sand boxes were still found until recently on some old courses, though today they contain fertilised soil for filling in divots on the teeing ground.

Towards the end of the 19th Century, golfers began trying to create re-usable tees, using paper, cork or rubber.  The earliest known portable golf tee was a small rubber slab resting flat on the ground, invented in 1889, the tee had three vertical rubber prongs or a hollow rubber tube to hold the ball in place. 

The “Reddy Tee”, the one we know today, was invented in 1921, manufactured in wood and painted with red tops so that it could be seen easily.  In 1924 the first Tee to be made of white celluloid was patented.  Most plastic golf tees are made using polypropylene or high density polyethylene (HDPE) and although widely available, wooden tees, manufactured from red cedar, are still the most common type of Tee used.  Additional materials introduced recently include clay tees, tees made from corn and tees composed by combining materials derived from animal skin, scales, bone, and soft tissue.  Manufacturers have also been able to produce an environmentally friendly product that automatically degrades over time. Other golf tees of this type are mixed with fertilizer and grass seed to improve their compatibility with the course.

The plastics properties used to manufacture the Tee can be changed by adding fillers.  These fillers can help control flexibility, make the tee more lightweight, make the raw materials easier to work with and can even help make the tees less prone to breaking.  Colorants may be added to the plastic to modify the tee's appearance and make it more decorative.  Wooden tees are painted; again to make them appear more attractive and weather resistant, glue can also be used in the production of the wooden tee.  Another product sometimes used to try and change the characteristics of some golf tees is rubber.

There are various tees in the market place, some are shaped differently to prevent disruption of the balls flight path, other tees have been invented to increase ball distance and improve accuracy and others have been created to help reduce rotational spin.  Golf tees that have a vented side wall or barbs on their tips are also available, these help to resist movement when the ball is hit.

Golf tees are made in a highly automated fashion; however there are three basic steps. Firstly the materials are prepared, then the tee shape is formed, finally the finally, the golf tee is finished and put into packaging.

With the popularity growing for golf as a sport, there is anticipation that golf tee manufacturers will continue to improve their product. Many are already introducing eco-friendly tees which not only reduce the number of trees destroyed yearly but also relieve the greens of broken tees.