Golf buggies on tees

[Dazza]

Trendsetters,

Does your local club allow you to pull your buggy onto the tee?

In all my years of playing, it's always been a no-no.
Now all of a sudden I'm signed up at Alice Springs, and there's members pushing their buggies onto the tee area, instead of leaving them on the path.

Does this happen anywhere else?

Cheers

[benno_r]

Trendsetters,

Does your local club allow you to pull your buggy onto the tee?

In all my years of playing, it's always been a no-no.
Now all of a sudden I'm signed up at Alice Springs, and there's members pushing their buggies onto the tee area, instead of leaving them on the path.

Does this happen anywhere else?

Cheers

Yes, we can take them anywhere on the course, excluding bunkers.

[markTHEblake]

Some clubs allow buggies on greens! Seen that in the sand belt, and also Northern Ireland.

Particularly bannning buggies on tees is probably rare. Only heard about it twice, at my club and from this thread.

[spanner039]

Yep tees no worries, I always used to let buggies on greens to save wear on the surrounds.

[pt73]

We allow push/pull and MGI style battery buggies on tees but neither type are allowed to be taken across greens although some members walk them around the edges which has lead to some ugly patches of wear.

[Dazza]

Yeah none on the greens, but they are on the tees.

[Flavzz]

I often pull my buggy onto the side of the tee box. Never had any feedback from other members.

[Kelsey86]

Not sure if there's an actual rule about it at my club, sometimes I'll take it onto the edge of the tee box, other times I'll leave it on a path or the longer grass surrounding the tee box. Just depends on how the area is set up on the hole really. Not allowed on the greens though.

[3Puttpete]

I take mine on the tee all the time and occasionally cross the green in the mid point of the 1st/8th double green, straight line, no stopping. It’s a 4 or 5 metre walk.

[Minor_Threat]

Can take them anywhere except bunkers at Newcastle..

[TS]

Some clubs allow buggies on greens! Seen that in the sand belt, and also Northern Ireland.

Particularly bannning buggies on tees is probably rare. Only heard about it twice, at my club and from this thread.

Most of the sand belt courses don't allow buggies near the green anymore.

[scratchoz]

Buggies on tees ok at my club and unofficially better to go straight across the middle of the green than between the green and bunkers to minimise wear and tear or otherwise outside the bunkers - greens surrounds are the hardest part of a course to maintain at a high standard due to foot/buggy traffic

[jimandr]

For me growing up it was always part of the unwritten rules rather than something formal. I have never done it and I would feel uncomfortable doing so now.
If there is a path use it.

[Daves]

For me growing up it was always part of the unwritten rules rather than something formal. I have never done it and I would feel uncomfortable doing so now.
If there is a path use it.

If only the paths were always available. It blows me away how ignorant and self centred most Cart Drivers are. I often can't get past them, they somehow take up the whole path beside the Tees. And they just sit on their arse and wait for the Walkers to tee off before they stop scratch them selves and otherwise fluff around. I hate carts with a passion!

[markTHEblake]

I hate carts with a passion!

Thats funny! ( i do too) In the Qld seniors OOM most do not ride in carts, which is interesting especially when many are over 65, yet in other events carts are the norm for young people. I guess its partly due to our generation not having carts when we started.

[sms316]

If course staff can drive a mower over a tee then the occasional push buggy isn’t going to cause an ounce of damage.

[Daves]

If course staff can drive a mower over a tee then the occasional push buggy isn’t going to cause an ounce of damage.

I played with one of our Green Keepers yesterday and he had no issue with it.

Our Club also specifically allows Buggies to cross greens, subject to some commonsense conditions;

It is permissible to take buggies with
wide tyres across a green. If this is done
- it should be one continuous pathway
across the green and carts should not
go near the hole.Members taking their
buggies across a green, are asked to
spread the wear across the greens by
avoiding the most common or shortest
route across each particular green.
Buggies are not to be left on the putting
surface of a green.

We have a number of greens where wear patches are evident on the green aprons because of constant traffic over the same area/corridor. Most golfers seem to be "blind" to it, or can't be bothered avoiding the problem areas.

[pt73]

I played with one of our Green Keepers yesterday and he had no issue with it.

Our Club also specifically allows Buggies to cross greens, subject to some commonsense conditions;



We have a number of greens where wear patches are evident on the green aprons because of constant traffic over the same area/corridor. Most golfers seem to be "blind" to it, or can't be bothered avoiding the problem areas.

We have the same issue and put “hoops” out trying to stop this but lazy members just walk around them on the green surface.

[Kelsey86]

I got robbed by one of those hoops earlier in the year, hit an approach shot straight at the pin and it landed on the hoop shooting off sideways into the bloody rough 😕

[Chilled]

Of course, never a problem at my course. If they want to regrow highly traffic tee block areas they will rope it off.

[thecollective]

Of course, never a problem at my course. If they want to regrow highly traffic tee block areas they will rope it off.

How’z the whine room going?


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[meh]

If only the paths were always available. It blows me away how ignorant and self centred most Cart Drivers are. I often can't get past them, they somehow take up the whole path beside the Tees. And they just sit on their arse and wait for the Walkers to tee off before they stop scratch them selves and otherwise fluff around. I hate carts with a passion!

This ^^