About 100 years ago, a Boston dentist named George F. Grant decided there had to be a better way to position golf balls than scooping sand and dirt with his hands and molding it into mounds. There were, after all, sanitary concerns for a man in his line of work. So Grant invented the golf tee, a simple little device that eliminated the dirty part of the game. And for the next century, while clubs and balls were improved with new technology, Grant's tees remained basically unchanged. Plant the little piece of wood or plastic in the ground, hit the ball, clean up the debris and move on to the next shot.
Golfers worry about birdies and bogeys, drives and divots.
The tees are secondary stuff -unless they can significantly impact on a player's game. Suppose there was an adjustable tee, one that could position balls higher or lower, depending on the needs of a particular shot. The Launch Tee, a new device, does exactly that. Each Launch Tee is a disc constructed of heavy duty plastic with different notches at the ends. Once attached, each notch creates a different height for the cone, with the ball sitting on top to anchor it to the ground.