Talk:Teeing ground

Tee colours

"• 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.

--Potatobreath (talk) 18:17, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Globalize

In 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)

Requested move 6 October 2026

Teeing ground → Tee boxTee box – "Tee box" is a commonly used name. "Tee" is also commonly used for this area, but that title is already taken. There is also "Teeing area" is the used in https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/rules-hub/topics/teeing-area.html.

Per WP:COMMONNAME, the article should use the name most commonly used; WP:CONCISE favors the shorter. Or there is also WP:OFFICIAL. Issac I Navarro (talk) 19:16, 6 October 2026 (UTC)

See also https://www.golfmonthly.com/videos/rules/rules-golf-teeing-area Issac I Navarro (talk) 20:49, 6 October 2026 (UTC)

• Comment I'm inclined to support, but is this an WP:ENGVAR thing? 162 etc. (talk) 17:07, 7 October 2026 (UTC)

  @162 etc. I have completely rewritten the page in American English, as I am based in the US; however, that is not the reason for this RM. Both The R&A and the USGA no longer use the terminology Teeing Ground. Tee box is more casual and would be in line with the common name and WP: CONCISE.

  However, I did use Teeing area throughout the article as that is it's WP:OFFICIAL name used by the R&A and USGA. And I do have a slight preference for Teeing area as that is what both the R&A and USGA call it.

  Either way, Teeing Ground is the old, outdated terminology. Issac I Navarro (talk) 17:40, 7 October 2026 (UTC)

  From the R&A: https://www.randa.org/en/players-rule-finder/players-rule-finder/teeing-area/when-ball-is-in-teeing-area Issac I Navarro (talk) 17:43, 7 October 2026 (UTC)

  https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/teek Issac I Navarro (talk) 17:46, 7 October 2026 (UTC)

• Alternative proposal: Move to Tee (golf)Tee (golf). That topic should include both the area in each hole used for the tee shot, and the piece of equipment used to hold the ball for a tee shot. This I think is the common English use of the noun tee in the context of golf. Andrewa (talk) 03:37, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

  I am not opposed to that idea. That would be inline with WP:CONCISE and WP:COMMONNAME. Though, as I stated I do favor "Teeing area" as both major governing bodies of golf call it "area".

  This matter gets confusing as we have two different things the tee (hitting box area), and tee (used to hold ball). That is why I also set up the request to merge the page Tee#Golf tee → to Teeing ground#Golf tee at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tee. I know I have said the word tee way too much. Issac I Navarro (talk) 03:54, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

That AFD is not getting any support and is unlikely to pass. The tee box and the tee are two distinct topics. 162 etc. (talk) 17:08, 10 October 2026 (UTC)

• @Andrewa , I been giving it some thought, and I do fully support this idea. Issac I Navarro (talk) 06:26, 10 October 2026 (UTC)

  These are the current redirect page: Teeing area, Teeing box, Tee-box, Teebox, Ladies' tees, Golf markers, Tee (golf) Issac I Navarro (talk) 15:58, 10 October 2026 (UTC)

images

I am going to add some images that I happen to find on Commons that might be useful

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Issac I Navarro (talk) 22:36, 7 October 2026 (UTC)

The two yellow markers show how two club-lengths deep. Green checkmarks show where the ball is allowed. Red crosses show where it is not. The black footprints on the left shows that a player may stand outside the boundary.

I just made this svg. It's not that good, as I'm not skilled. I got the idea after seeing it in a book from the USGA. I was also able to find it the image here. It is also being used on the R&A website. I know it is not good. Any ideas about this image, or should I just scrap this idea? Issac I Navarro (talk) 04:07, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

I feel like I made it more complex and convoluted than it had to be. Issac I Navarro (talk) 04:14, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

@Bearian, Thank you for your honesty at the WikiProject talk. I have an additional question, if you're willing to answer it. I went through all of the images on Commons, and picked some out that might be useful. Do you like any of these for this page? Or should I take another look at commons? Issac I Navarro (talk) 02:23, 11 October 2026 (UTC)

I'm fine with them. Bearian (talk) 10:01, 11 October 2026 (UTC)

Except the black and white ones are of such poor quality that they are hard to understand. Bearian (talk) 10:02, 11 October 2026 (UTC)

Phrasing

Article currently reads in part Most golf courses and country clubs often have multiple sets of tee markers set at different distances. That's very vague... could we be a bit more definite? But I'm not quite sure how. Maybe just remove the word often... but that changes the meaning. Better to remove the word Most, as this sense is duplicated by the word often. Other thoughts? Andrewa (talk) 05:27, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

@Andrewa , There are par three golf courses and from what I have seen they usually only have one teeing area per a given hole. There are also some other non par three courses that also don't have multiple options.

If you are able fix the phrasing that would may help the flow of the text. Issac I Navarro (talk) 07:03, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

Yes, but that's not the issue I am raising here. The point is that I think that the word most is redundant, considering that the sentence also says often, and vice versa. But do you agree with that? If so then yes, I'm happy to fix it. Andrewa (talk) 20:41, 9 October 2026 (UTC)

@Andrewa I have since edited it what do you think? Issac I Navarro (talk) 20:48, 9 October 2026 (UTC)

WP:GOCER

Comment: I left a note at WP:GOCER. Issac I Navarro (talk) 02:30, 11 October 2026 (UTC)