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Video Tutorial: Teeing Off

Written by  Andrew Wild on Thursday, 17 February 2011
New to golf? Not sure what each coloured tee means? Sandford Springs general manager Andrew Wild explains all.




Hi I’m Andrew. We’re here on the first tee and you’ll se three different coloured tees – the red, yellow and white. The red is for the ladies, yellow is for men’s normal play and white is for men’s competition.

Now when you’re teeing off, you need to imagine a rectangle – an imaginary line between the two white markers. You’re allowed to go two club lengths back and then follow the line across to make the rectangle. 

Now the ball must be teed up in that position – you may stand outside it as a golfer but the ball must be in that rectangle before you start your play. 

So on this one, what I am going to do, I am going to tee the ball up in that imaginary rectangle, and I am going to have my feet outside the box which is perfectly fine and now we’re going to drive it up the first.
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Andrew Wild

Andrew Wild

Andrew manages all aspects of Sandford Springs including Food and Beverage, Golf, Finance and Memberships.

Andrew originally met the Chairman, Paul Gibbons, when he was an assistant Golf Pro at Reading Golf Club 28 years ago.

Interestingly, 15 years later Andrew was giving Paul a series of lessons, during which he mentioned there was a club in Hampshire which was up for sale. After going to visit the club, Mr Gibbons ended up buying Sandford Springs. 

Andrew joined the company a couple of years later and six years on, he became the General Manager at the club they had first discussed all that time ago.

Andrew has a deep passion for the game of golf, which aids his enthusiasm in all his endeavours at Sandford Springs. Aside from playing, he enjoys simply being around the golf club and takes a great interest in looking after his members.

He believes that the atmosphere at Sandford Springs is second to none and finds it such a pleasure to be involved with the club that, in his own words – "Sometimes it doesn't even feel like work".

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