I had always wanted to try out the Brush Tee, so when The Savvy Golfer sent me a package of them for testing, I was all for it. The whole idea makes a lot of sense…less resistance against your ball and club at contact and the ball will fly longer.

Last week while golfing a round of 9 by myself I pulled out the Brush Tee and decided to give it a try. The first thing I noticed was that it’s not all that easy to tee this thing up. With a normal tee most players will use the ball to help them push the tee into the ground. Since the top of the Brush Tee is, well, basically brush bristles, you can’t use the ball to get this thing into the ground. You either have to try and grab the tee around the middle, where the brush part ends or you have to put a finger down the middle of the bristles and push it down. Teeing the ball up for a drive shouldn’t be this difficult.

The next thing I noticed was that a golf ball doesn’t sit particularly well on the Brush Tee. It’s not possible for a golf ball to sit crooked, since it’s all rounded, but I constantly felt like my ball was leaning one way or another. When you’re trying to go for it with a driver the last thoughts you need to be having are that your ball is going to fall off the tee when you swing.

Brush Tee simply isn’t for me. I’ll stick to normal tees.