 Off a tee? Yeah, all the time. Every time. Why? That's an advantage. Yes, you do. Yeah. Always. Always, yeah. For me, I'd probably tee it, so just in line with the ground. So, depending on the condition of the tee, I'll probably just slight tee, just so it's just the golf, the ground. But you'd never not tee it, would you, with an iron? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, generally I'll put a tee in the ground. Before we get hitting golf balls, either in the driving range or out there on a golf course, then we'll be doing both in this video. First of all, this is what I would call a copycat video. It was my mate, Liam, from Golf Mates. He rang me a few weeks back after caddying on the European tour. And he said that he's seen the pros doing something that surprised him. And that was how high they teed up the ball when using an iron off the tee. And the first thing was that centre-line bell's ringing because I don't use a tee at all. I don't actually drop a ball and hit it from the turf. So that's the first question in my mind, is that why do they use a tee? They obviously know their onion's better than I do. And there must be a benefit of doing so. There's some obvious things that spring to mind. But I'm going to look at data and see if it tells us what that benefit is, why I'm missing out, why the pros are doing what they're doing. But I'll also take it on the course and see what impact it has when I'm playing. But first of all, I want input from you. Do you use a tee or not? So comments down below, tee or no tee. And then let's have a look on whether we're doing it right or doing it wrong. Time to hit some golf balls. Whenever I do testing, I always like to back up whatever I find out on the golf course in terms of my own personal opinion. I like to see it backed up in terms of data. Am I actually seeing out there on the course what is happening in reality? And that's what data gives us. But there's a slight caveat, I think, in terms of this test that we've got to bear in mind. I think it's when I'm hitting from the mat. So without the tee, hitting from a mat, it's an artificial surface. I ain't going to take a divot from it. I'm never really going to get one fat. That club head always slides along. So I think in this instance, while we'll use the data to see certain aspects of the results, I think it will be interesting to see how my opinion is formed when I actually try this test out there on the golf course. But for now, let's get some data and at least let's see what the science says in terms of what happens to my contact, my ball flight, the end result when I use a tee or not. Did all the tests in that foregolf, as I would normally do, you've seen a little explanation there as to slight concern over the date in terms of the mat. It's not quite the same as being outside, and we'll get to that shortly. And I'd normally save the dry ball data till the end, but we're going to do that now and then we're going to see what happened out there on the golf course. So dry ball data up in front of you now, starting off with the A tie-in. And what you see with A tie-in, if I'm being perfectly honest, is very little difference whatsoever. Almost identical across the board, and I've said this before on reviews, is the differences and variables that are in there are more likely to do with my swing than the consistent performance that's required. And honestly, very little difference whatsoever, visibly in the range as well. Then it's off into the five iron, and we now start to see a difference. And I've seen the difference visibly before I looked at data. I could tell from hitting from the tee, the ball seemed to be launching that bit higher. And as you can see from the number in front of you now, or the comparison numbers, it did launch higher, it carried that little bit longer. But overall numbers, the descent angle as well is the interesting one for me, where you start to see some differences appear. So whilst I didn't see nothing in the A tie-in, the five iron you will start to see advantages possibly from using a tee. But does that ring true when we're out on the golf course? Because at the end of the day, that's reality. That's where we play golf, not on a driving range, not on an artificial surface, back out on the golf course. And what you see out in the course is just a winter tee, slightly uneven life, where the ball is going to sit at a consistent height. It certainly presents itself well at a dress. Holding one on camera would be nice. Get in. Oh, it's a bit long. It's a bit long ride of a flag, but no interaction with turf whatsoever. And yeah, that was nice. Let's try it without the tee. So now naturally what I would do if I was on this tee is drop a ball down, get myself a little bit of a trough. Yeah, that'll do. And I'm good to go. It's a slightly better line. Off to the right, that one there is. Ball and turf interaction. I'm not sure how much it affected the flight. Tee or not to tee, that is the question. And I think there's a couple of things that I would want to mention. We've only seen what happened in terms of dry ball data. And I've got to say that I was aware that was the first part of the test. Second was to come out on the course. I always give you my honest assessments as to what I see. And in all honesty, no major difference. The last two four irons I hit, which is where I've just finished on that last tee, was the casing point. Again, when we watch them back or you're watching them back now, there may be a difference in ball fight, but I didn't see it. They were virtually identical. I think the logical thing is when you're teeing up a four iron to have that little bit of that ball above ground, that little bit of a clean surface, it's logical that that would be the thing that you'd look to do. It makes sense to me. But I suppose for me, it's become a habit. I drop the ball, find a little tough to grasp and I hit from it. Almost, and again, you know, our golfers were a little bit weird. It almost changed the way I wanted to swing the club. I know that sounds stupid, but I found myself wanting to just compact that ball a little bit more when it was sat on the turf than I did a more sort of sweeping action, if you like, when it was put up on a tee. And again, that's probably just down to my mentality and years of being lazy and not putting a tee peg in the ground. I think the overall assessment is this. I think the suggestion is that probably looking at dry ball data, if we spread that over a wider number of shots, the ball flight is probably different. Logically, it would be, yes, you can perhaps get a cleaner strike. I think it depends how you hit on the ball as well. I do tend to clip the ball off the top. I don't really take much of a divot. So it hasn't impacted on me personally that great, but it might do to others. So I think it's all down to personal preferences. After it all, I think the logic, for me, I'll probably just carry on teeing it up as I do, which is off the deck, what I'm used to. And yeah, I've not learned anything that would suggest that I need to do otherwise. But as I said earlier on in the video, more interesting than this is comments down below. How many of you actually tee the ball up and how many of you stick it straight off the deck? And is there anything you've seen in this video that I've persuaded you to do otherwise? Anyway, thanks as ever for watching. It's an end of what is a very windy day at Conway Golf Club and it's time to get back inside and I'll see you all soon.