Golf tee
A golf tee is a wooden or plastic object, approximately two inches in length with an enlarged concave head on which the ball rests, that allows golfers to tee a shot. Teeing means to place a ball on the top of the tee to be hit.
The first U.S. patent for a golf tee was issued on December 12, 1899 to George F. Grant, a Black-American.[1] Earlier patents were issued in the U.S. and Great Britain to other individuals.[2]
The first commercial[3] wooden golf tee, known as the "Reddy Tee," the familiar cone-shaped wooden peg with a small concave platform, was invented by William Lowell in 1921 at the Maplewood Golf Club in Montclair, New Jersey.[4]
References
- ^ Joseph Nathan Kane, Famous First Facts, H.W. Wilson, 4th Ed. (1981) p.288.
- ^ Who Invented the Golf Tee?, accessed December 16, 2006
- ^ George Grant - Improved Golf Tee, accessed December 16, 2006
- ^ Scottish Golf History: Derivation of Golf Tee, accessed December 13, 2006
External Link
- Today in Science History - the first Black-American patent for a golf tee, U.S. Patent No. 638,920, issued 12 December 1899 to George F. Grant.