i've got the power

Professional golfers like what I is are always trying to find new techniques to give themselves the edge over the tubby salesmen they play with. With this in mind I visited a new, posh driving range this week. I paid for my bucket of balls and proffered a pound coin as deposit for a rubber tee.

The daft lad in a powder blue Lyle and Scott number said, 'no sir we use Power Tees here'. 'Great' I said wandering off towards the range wondering what on earth power-tees were.

I wandered past a couple of booths trying to select the perfect teeing off spot and found a mat with a ball already set-up on a tee. 'Fantastic... a free go' I muttered to myself. So I lined everything up. Smacked it a good, ooh, 15 yards with my best stick. Looked down at my feet and there's another ball sitting on the tee ready for thwacking. Wow. So power-tees are like that elusive everlasting pint of Guinness, or that ever-full wallet.

Brilliant. I went straight back to see soft-lad in the shop and bought two.