Better Golf Tee vs BirTee.
BirTee sits loose on top and tips when the club brushes it. We anchor with soft self-sealing spikes and balance the ball on four open points. Three real heights, tethered.
What BirTee makes
BirTee's flagship is a flexible silicone tee that sits loose on top of the mat, sold in a range of fixed sizes so you choose your height by choosing which tee you pick up. There is no anchor and no tether. It is a mature product that people buy and like.
The mechanism difference
Everything downstream comes from one decision: whether the tee is held to the mat or simply resting on it.
A loose surface tee is simple and it works until something moves it. A club brushing the top on the way through, a foot, or the airflow behind a driver head can all shift it, and once it has moved you are either resetting between shots or accepting that your ball position drifted. On a range that is an annoyance. In a recorded practice session it is a variable in your data.
An anchored tee is trying to solve that, and it introduces its own problem: anything that grips a mat can damage it. That trade, grip versus mat wear, is the real engineering argument between these two approaches, and it is why spike material matters more than spike count.
Where BirTee is the better buy
- It exists and ships today.
- It is cheaper.
- Nothing to set up. Put it down, hit.
- Eight fixed sizes is genuinely a lot of granularity if you like choosing by feel.
Where our approach differs
- Heights chosen to match on-grass equivalents by club, rather than a numbered range.
- Tethered to a caddy, so a tee that does get knocked cannot leave.
- Ball rests on four open points rather than in a closed cup, so the leading edge has a clear path under the ball.
- A wide flat foot plus soft anchor spikes, intended to resist skating without the fibre damage steel causes.
Which to pick
If you want the cheapest workable simulator tee and flyaways do not bother you, BirTee is the straightforward answer today. If your practice is data-driven and an inconsistent ball position is corrupting numbers you are trying to compare week over week, that is the problem we are building for.
Is BirTee good for a golf simulator?
It is a widely used flexible silicone tee that sits on the mat surface and comes in several fixed heights. It has no anchor or tether, so it can be displaced by a club brush or a foot.
What is the difference between a surface tee and an anchored tee?
A surface tee rests on the mat and is simple but can be moved. An anchored tee grips the mat for a repeatable position, and the engineering question is achieving that grip without damaging the mat fibres.