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On 10/20/2021 at 9:59 AM, RickyBobby_PR said:
May be in the wrong forum but could be considered mental game.
Dlow’s post in random thread reminded me of this hole. The course is Blue Mash which is a sister course of @Golfspy_CG2 old hole course Waverly Woods.
The front and back nine play complexity different and the back nine is usually pretty windy compared to the front. It also has shorter holes.
The first 3 holes play long from both white and blue tee boxes. This is hole 3. A par 4 and per scorecard white tees are 426 and blue 453. Red are 359 and green just slightly behind them. The course has a combo tee option and this one plays from the whites of using that option. The black circle is roughly where the 150 marker is. Tees are usually in the middle box where the tree on the left is. When I play there whites are anywhere from 400-430. Many times it’s into the wind which adds distance and difficulty.
What strategy would you use to play this hole?
For me I play a fade off the left side of the fairway to try and avoid the bunkers. My typical drive is short of the cart path that splits the fairway to about 20 yards behind it. Usually have anywhere from a 5i to my 4/5 wood depending on what bag setup I have into the green. It’s a hole that I don’t par often and play it to make no worse than bogey.
Edit: #1 hdcp hole. The green is surrounded by a hill on the back and sides with thick rough.
Interesting hole. It looks like a double fairway. I've seen double greens and double tees, but never a double fairway. I would take out a driver and blast it to the right. It looks like the best approach shot is from the adjoining fairway on the right side. There's no bunkers to go over, no trees, nothing but green. Assuming there's no internal out of bounds, it looks like that's the best way.
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I would recommend listening to the old saying: "It ain't how. It's how many."
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7 hours ago, B_R_A_D_Y said:
Haven’t played golf in 14yrs. Got a new knee … so let to good puts roll. Noticed immediately my 20yr old clubs wouldn’t pass muster, but thought my 1970s Ping Power Slot would stand by me like in the old days. Not certain if I’m right, but the greens today seem a lot faster that 15yrs ago. Maybe it’s just that green maintenance has become easier for smaller local clubs to manage. In any case, I talked myself into getting a new one. Ordered it, but in the mean time I switched to another putter, a wood headed putter from Louisville Golf that I got in 1980. I loved it … allowed me to confidently bump puts on fast greens. Only problem was I had just paid $450 for the putter I ordered … so many sleepless nights dreading that I might not like it as much. Got the putter 3 weeks later and I do like it enough to put the wood putter out to pasture. But my putter is not the subject of this narrative. I played a round against an 88 yr old gentleman who was club champion a few times in his younger days. He was brandishing his old, late 1960s era BULLSEYE. The only way to get lower tec in a putter would be to use one from a Putt Putt course. Needless to say he complained that his putting was off … like all of us do. He was upset because he 2 putted every green. However, he never left a putt more than a foot … most times by inches. And a lot of his first putts were 15-30 feet. He putted great in my book. I asked him about the putter and he said he fell in love with it the instant he got it. I never asked if he ever tried something else. Wish I had. But what it truly proved to me was that a putter is only as good as your confidence in it. Duh! For $450, I hope my confidence stays with this one for the rest of my life.
It's spelled "Callaway". Not "Calloway".
Famous or Funny Quotes about Putting.
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There was a study done several years ago on the PGA tour. The study showed that over 90% of putts left short don't go in. I think "never up, never in" was just the "Executive Summary" of that study.