Question: do you have to use a tee in golf?
Answer: You don't have to actually use a tee on the tee. You can chip up the ground to make a makeshift tee, or can just hit the ball off of the grass. Sometime you'll see players settle up to the ball, and as they are doing so the ball will fall off or be knocked off the tee. ... You can re-tee the ball without penalty.