Play as much loft as you can to clear the hill in front of the green.  This means you should favor a high-teed 3-wood over a driver, for instance.  From the back-right box, this high-teed 3-wood had plenty to clear the hill and got a nice bounce into a right pin.  This high-teed 4-wood was […]

This drivable par 4 with a fairly small green will test your accuracy and distance control, but more importantly your knowledge of the required loft.  There are a few options. From the front-right of the box, this low-teed 3-wood got under the first and over the second overhang to find the hole.  Medium-teed 3-woods should […]

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  The leadoff hole on Celtic Shores is a dogleg right into a green surrounded by sand in the front and a dropoff cliff in the back.  However, take a look if it may be drivable, because it can be done — check out this huge C3 high-teed driver that finds the green! Otherwise, take […]

If you don’t mind using a tee, you can high-tee a driver straight ahead to the fairway for a shorter approach into the green.  Here’s a hole-out from there. Another option is to play the right fairway, where you may need up to a driver for your approach into the green — here’s an example hole-out […]

  This undulating par 5 offers you a good chance at eagle early in the round.  If you can’t get over the sand to the top of the hill by hitting straight ahead, rotate left or right to play a high-teed A1 or C3 drive for extra distance to get up there.  Here’s an example […]

This par 5 is long and has an elevated green that makes for a challenging eagle.  The fairway caves into a big sand trap right where your drive would normally end up, so you have to find a way to place your drive in a spot that gives you a chance to get there in […]

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  You’ll either have a straight shot or a small curve with any wood up to a driver into this drivable par 4 with the scenic backdrop. From the right box, you may have the option to shoot a 3-wood through the gap in the trees straight at the green.  Here’s another 3-wood medium-teed that […]

Many options off the tee, so let’s check them out: The islands are enticing and seemingly necessary to give you a shot at the green in two, but that’s not true.  If you lay up at the left end of the first fairway, you can bring in a driver and still get there.  This is […]

  The tough finishing par 4 forces you to cut a shot around the hill and stick a narrow green surrounded by trouble.  Normally you play around the right side and curve it in left.  A driver has plenty of loft to get over the last hill if need be — here’s a hole-out to […]

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  Just requires a bit of loft and backspin to hold the green.  Don’t clip the rock or you’ll ricochet into the water as well.  The green is as bad as it gets in terms of slope, so don’t be too frustrated if you two-putt.  You can also try to prevent a downhill rollover by […]

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  Some setups allow you to blast over the neck to the second fairway; take advantage of this when given! Otherwise, you may have to get partially out in the neck of fairway to have a chance to get there in two (at least with a 3-w0od, which you’ll definitely prefer over a driver approach). […]

The back box offers several options.  Often times a 3W or 5W can line up with the green while you play a B1-type shot out left through the tree gap and over the hill.  Here’s an ace with the high-loft (Howitzer) driver using a high tee. A high-teed 3W can also get over the hill […]

Most of the time, the best drive is to lay out even with the second sand trap to the left of the fairway.  This gives you an opening in the trees for your approach — here’s a nice 3-wood curved around and in from there.  This 2-bird was also curved around nicely.  From farther out, […]

This short par 5 is drivable, perhaps a couple ways, in some cases!  Here’s a big C3 cutter around the right side that caught a late water skip and held the green.  Here’s another one.  This high-teed driver took a bigger angle and caught a boost from a branch to shoot it up on the […]

The low-teed 1-iron is money here, but the low-teed 2-hybrid with the Hawks should be able to get it done for you as well.  From the right-box, this 2-hybrid actually one-hopped over the water, onto the green, and into the hole — and it’s not bad to play it this way either.  Here’s another one […]

You usually loft a shot around the trees and hope to hold the green here.  This 3-wood had enough to catch the rough and a nice hop to a back pin.  This 4-wood was another nice play to a back-right pin. A driver is another good option, where you land left and depend on backspin […]

It’s nice when you can use a 5-wood to loft a shot onto this green — here’s an example ace to a left pin. Here’s a 7-wood ace to a back-right pin. With lower-lofted clubs, this hole can be difficult.  It’s often between a 2-hybrid and 3-hybrid if you play Hawks, and there’s quite a […]

A good option many times off the tee here is to rotate right and look for a little grassy outlet jutting from the right out into the water.  You can play a small cut into this area to give yourself an open approach shot with a wood. Curving an A1 shot off the tee often […]

From the front box, this 9-wood was perfectly-played into a back-left pin. From the back box, this 5-wood also found the hole.  And here’s a great 3-wood.  With a lot more angle, check out this impressive 5-wood dunk!  And this one is fun because it aced for a -41 in the all-drivable par-4 daily contest! […]

Unless the wind will be strong in your face on the approach (and maybe even then), you can lay up straight ahead in the fairway in line with the lava pit on the left.  This should leave an open driver approach into the green — here’s an example hole-out. Or, you can take the traditional […]

The shot here depends on the wind.  With a head-wind, you’ll often high-tee a 3-wood over the top of the trees. This high-teed 5-wood carried into the back rock but caught a great deflection into the cup! With a right-blowing wind, you can aim left and pretty much take the trees out of the picture […]

From the back box, check out the bounces this 5-wood gets off the rock before it finds the cup.  Here’s another terrible shot that kicks all the way over and somehow into the hole!  And this 9-wood rattled around off the rock too and settled back in the cup!  There can be quite a bit […]

On this short par 5, you don’t even have to worry about driving past the sand trap in the fairway.  If you lay up short, you’ll have plenty of distance and elevation to carry over on the approach — here’s a 3-wood with bite that sucked right into the hole. VIDEO DEMO

You’ll usually want to fly over the rock mountain in the middle of the fairway, but you’ll have to make sure you have enough loft.  From the back box, this medium-teed 3-wood played a small cut left-to-right to ensure it cleared, and then it found the cup.  This medium-teed 3-wood cut over the left peak […]

Your tee shot here can depend on your confidence in your accuracy with C3 shots.  It’s easy to find the sand, and that will eliminate any chance at eagle.  On one hand, it may be best to blast it past all the sand as far down the fairway as you can, but of course the […]

Here is an awesome 3-wood ace from the left-center box.  This high-teed 5-wood found the cup from there as well. This 3-wood came around the left side with a great B1 shot and found the hole.  This one came around with more angle for the dunk!  And this low-teed driver skip was a great play […]