From the front box, you can always blast a high-teed drive all the way over the narrow neck into the second fairway.  Here’s a short 7-iron hole-out from there. With other looks, you can avoid the narrow neck by playing down to the left, where a wood has enough loft and distance to get there in […]

Most looks here offer a 3 or 4-wood with backspin or a high-teed wood into a headwind to settle on the green.  You’ll have an offset look, so it’s a matter of aim and distance to give you a reasonable putt. From the back-left box, this driver was short but got a nice bounce up […]

Even with the toughest setup, you can rotate right a couple times and curve a driver with backspin right-to-left…you’ll still have plenty of distance to get there.  Otherwise a 3-wood can clear the mountain ahead to give you a shorter approach. VIDEO DEMO

There are several options here depending mostly on the pin placement, but one is definitely the most popular.  You’re looking to hit over the right side of the mountain with the highest-lofted club you can hit, which will land you in a nice flat area elevated above the green.  From here, it’s usually a driver […]

Anywhere out to the left side of the fairway usually offers enough loft for a wood to get there in two.  An easy spot to hit off the tee is just right of the sand towards the end of the left fairway.  From there, here’s a 3-wood that clears a gap for a double eagle. More skilled […]

Not too much to think about here…you may occasionally lay out left if you like the wind and pin placement, but you’ll usually slam it ahead and bring in your approach for eagle. VIDEO DEMO

This green can sometimes be driven with a huge A1 and some great bounces — check out this amazing ace!  For a long time that shot was the longest hole-out ever posted to YouTube.  But then in 2016, we saw this 443-yard ace…perhaps the longest ever without using a high tee.  Incredible. Here’s an example […]

We’re into September, and that means Golden Tee 2016 is less than a month away!  Click here to watch the preview trailer for the new release.  Here’s everything you need to know about it, starting with the courses (possibly more scorable than 2015)!  Click each link below to read an overview of each course and […]

Popular advice for amateurs is not to try to go for the green on this one.  There’s a tiny gap on the left you can go over, but there’s also a gap over the bench and under the trees with a 0-hybrid that takes a lot of practice. If you do try the high side, […]

Believe it or not, you can always carry around to the second fairway…but from the back-left box, you’ll likely play a high-teed A1 driver after rotating left once that bounces off the bridge to the fairway.  With a left-blowing wind, a low-teed driver can help cut the wind and get to the bridge for the […]

The left tee box right behind the trees is always the most difficult here, and your approach depends on the wind and pin…you can go either left or right depending on what works best. From the middle box, here’s a medium-teed driver to a back pin.  And here’s a low-teed driver to a right pin. […]

From the left box, you can always ram a drive far out in the fairway semi-close to the stream to give yourself a good approach into the green. From the right box, your tee shot may depend on the wind.  It’s still usually best if you can get your drive out to the left fairway […]

From the back-right box, this low-teed driver stayed under the trees and found the cup.  This 4-wood curved nicely through for another ace. From the left box, this high-teed 6-wood was a nice play over the top to a right pin.  And this 5-wood went straight through for the dunk! Another option from the left […]

With most setups you can blast a high-teed drive straight ahead over the building for a straight approach shot. Sometimes it’s a tough look and you may consider laying up…if you land short-right of the building just over the sand, you’ll also have a mostly straight shot with a wood into the green. Another good […]

This is a tough eagle when the pin is tucked to the right.  You’ll often play something like a 3-4-wood around the left side with backspin to ensure you stay over land and hope to spin it back in for a putt.  If you have solid distance control, you can also float a wood around […]

You can lay up straight ahead towards the sand or blast it farther left of the sand in the extended fairway — whatever gives you a better angle on the approach. VIDEO DEMO

On my home edition, I have an older trackball, and it works for me.  I don’t lose any distance, but it can affect the break on my putts vs. a smoother trackball. What I observe sometimes is that when I miss putts on the low side, it’s due to my hand action on the follow […]

It takes lots of practice to know how far to the right to hit a 30-foot putt in Golden Tee that breaks 8 degrees left. Still, in almost all putting situations, you don’t need to rotate your golfer to compensate for severe slope. In the example above, I just try to gauge how far to […]

No one area can frustrate you more than missing putts. In Golden Tee, if you hit the green, you’re expected to be able to make the putt. Really, you’re expected to be able to make almost all putts on the green, but most of us aren’t that consistently good. This section contains some tips to […]

This topic is meant to address the question of at what distance you see the putt coming off the club more quickly, hence having to play less break. Obviously, this topic had several different opinions, with no one being able to nail down exactly what you can expect from longer putts. To expand, I wanted […]

I was skeptical of this for a long time, but I finally decided to give it a try during a round of Golden Tee Live just a couple weeks ago. The theory here, as supported by Golden Tee master Steve Sobe, is that you have better control of your putts by pulling back on the […]

This hole is sometimes drivable, especially from the front box, although it can be hard to stick.  It can be done with an A1, B2 or C3.  Here’s a nice drive straight at it that held the green for an eagle putt. If you think you can at least reach the sand, that’s worth doing […]

  The second hole offers a great chance at eagle as long as you can avoid the rocky overhang on the left during your approach.  That shouldn’t be a problem if you use anything loftier than a driver.  Here’s a 3-wood ace straight at a right pin. A driver (especially low-teed) can get under the […]

  This par 4 is always drivable, but the difficulty depends on the tee box.  Playing from the right back box requires the right angle and distance to find the gap between the trees on the way to the green.  This low-teed 4-wood curved around and spun back into a right pin.  And this 5-wood […]

  From the left box, a skilled shot up, around, and down to the green behind the hill should be required to give you a chance at eagle on this drivable par 4.  However, the hill is often accommodating to harder-hit shots that can bounce up, over, and down to the green. Here’s a 4-wood curved […]

  You’ll finish your round on Celtic Shores by curving a drive around the mountain to the left into a green tucked behind it.  This 3-wood took straighter aim at the green and took it way out right to get over and around the mountain, backspinning into the cup.  This high-teed 4-wood cut the corner […]

Some looks from the front/left side of the box offer you a straight shot at the green, because a 6-wood or high-teed 5-wood has enough loft to get over that first tree.  From the left-center of the box, this high-teed 5-wood took straight aim over the top to a right pin and found the hole!  And […]

Here’s another par 5 that may be driveable, so take a look at the setup!  From the front-left box, this high-teed 3-wood had just enough to clear the volcano and trickle down into the hole!  This one played as a C3 into a right wind also dropped into a left pin for the super albatross!  Finally, […]

This is a tricky eagle hole early in the round that will test your skills — you need distance, curve and loft control to carry the sand and stick the green for an eagle putt. From the front-right box, this 3-wood curved around to a right pin.  And this 5-wood played a bigger cut and […]