The ifrothgolf review
The Pride PTS (Professional Tee System) is the world's best-selling tee range, sold in colour-coded wood and tougher ABS plastic versions across five heights. It's aimed at anyone who wants to stop guessing their tee height every drive.
What's great
The colour-coded height bands are the real selling point, and they genuinely work. You jam the tee in to the same colour every time and your strike height stops wandering, which tightened up my dispersion off the tee more than I expected from a few pence of wood. The wood ones are properly straight and consistent batch to batch, and the plastic version is borderline indestructible (testers got 70-odd full driver swings out of one tee). The low-resistance four-prong head does feel like it gets out of the way at impact too.
Worth knowing
The colour-coding is half a gimmick once you push the tee into the ground, because the band disappears and you're back to eyeballing it, so it only helps on firm turf. The plastic ones fly miles and never snap, which sounds great until you're hunting for them in the rough, and a fair few owners report they go brittle and crack in cold weather or leave a faint scuff on a matte driver sole. Wood ones still snap on rock-hard tee boxes. Not for occasional players who'll never recoup the plastic premium.
The verdict
A genuinely good tee that earns its reputation. I rate the wood PTS for most blokes for the consistency alone, and the plastic if you hate buying tees, just don't expect the colour trick to do much once it's in soft ground.
What reviewers say
Pride is the world's #1 tee maker and the colour-coded PTS system is widely liked for locking in a repeatable tee height. Made from 100% hardwood, reviewers note they're durable for wooden tees but, as expected, will eventually snap with use.
