Tethered. Always.
Every Better Golf Tee runs a braided cord from its base to a slot in the caddy. You cannot lose one. You cannot chase one across a hitting bay. The tether is not a feature. It is the product.
The problem with every other tee
Wooden tees launch. Plastic tees launch farther. Rubber tees stay put on a mat, until they don't. Surface tees like BirTee skitter. Tee Claw's own product page admits the anchor "is not meant to stop tees from coming out or flying down range after impact."
You hit a hundred drives at the range. You lose six tees. That is the cost of practice.
Tethered changes the unit economics of a session
A tethered tee survives every strike. It launches. The cord catches it. It returns. You keep practicing. The tee in your caddy after fifty drives is the same tee you started with.
Why a cord, and not a magnet or a heavy puck
Magnets fail in two ways: they fall off under impact, and they do not work through synthetic grass. A heavy puck like the Birdie Cube works but you have to carry it. Every session, you set it down. Some you forget it.
A braided polyester cord weighs nothing, costs cents, and is failure-tolerant. The knot you tie at the caddy end is the only failure mode, and that knot is replaceable in fifteen seconds with cord you can buy in any hardware store.
The caddy is the anchor
This is the part that took us a while to figure out. Tethering the tee to the mat works, the mat is heavy. But the mat does not come with you. The caddy does. Tethering the tee to the caddy means the system is self-contained. Pack it up. Move it. Use it at home, at the range, at a buddy's simulator.
The caddy holds four tees, four cords, and the receipt for buying more.
You practice what you play.
What this means for your range visits
- No chasing tees across the artificial grass
- No buying boxes of plastic tees every six weeks
- No bending over after every drive to retrieve and re-tee
- No "I lost the good one"
You hit. The tee returns. You hit again. That is the loop.