ABSTRACT
The earliest rules of golf stipulated that the ball must be teed within a certain number of club lengths of the previous hole.
Willie Park in 1896 said ‘tees should be placed on level parts of the course if possible with a slight slope upward in the direction to be played’. Since in the same article he said ‘that greens should only be constructed artificially as a last resource’, we may assume that there were still no artificially constructed tees.
