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From the middle box, here’s a huge C3 driver that carried onto the green!
Here’s a giant A1 that hopped the last bunker and also made it on!
From the middle box, this hole can be drivable — this high-teed driver came up just a few feet short of the cup! But this high-teed driver did find a right pin with distance to spare! Here’s another with the Hawks.
Otherwise, just lay up in the fairway and avoid the sand and rough — here’s an example hole-out.
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.
If you’re feeling aggressive, this hole can be drivable, but you could also end up in a nasty spot in the pot bunker by the green. From the back-right box, here’s one that hopped the one in front and rammed into the cup! Here’s another one that rammed in — amazing! It’s typically an A1 high-teed driver with roll, but not all the way out to 1…you’ll have the distance in the right setup, it’s just getting the right angle coming in! This one was overcut a bit, but check out the deflection off the bunker wall!!
With an out wind, this straight high-teed driver carried the bunker right at it!
Here’s an ace from the front-right box.
Here’s a nice bounce off the hill with a 6-iron from the middle box.
This short par 5 only asks that you stay out of the sand for a chance at eagle. In some cases you can blast a drive past all the sand for a short approach — here’s a short DE hole-out.
There’s some open fairway in the second-left fairway in the middle of all the sand. From there, here’s a 5-wood with some friendly roll that found the hole.
There’s a little less fairway to stick out to the right, but that’s an option too — here’s a hole-out from there.
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 and backspun into the cup. Here’s a great high-teed 3-wood cut to a back-right pin!
This driver did NOT have enough loft, but it deflected off the rock mountain and somehow into the hole!
Here’s a ridiculous driver around the left side with no tee — just a sick ace.
And here’s another one around the RIGHT side with no tee…another sick ace!
From the middle box, this high-teed 5-wood found a front-left pin.
With a great wind here, you can get close to the green if not on it — check out how this tee shot from the BACK box carried 426 yards into the hole! But this one was even longer — 430 yards straight at it, to top the longest hole-out record books! From the front box, this big C3 driver lipped out of the cup! But here’s one from the front that found the hole!
An A1 also works if it favors the wind — check out this 424-yard ace! But here’s the king of them all — a 448-yard ace from back box to back of the green…just amazing!
If you end up a bit short, you may be able to putt still — this putt hopped the rough and found the cup! And here’s another.
Otherwise, there’s not much reason to risk sand and rough by the second fairway, so just lay up at the end of the first fairway here for your approach — here’s an example hole-out.
Here’s a 5-wood ace from the front-left box. And this 3-hybrid also got some crazy bounce and spin to find the hole.
From the back-left box, this 3-wood found a center pin. And this 3-wood got an amazing bounce back out of the bunker to find the cup!
From the front-right box, check out this amazing double-deflection out of the bunker here that was almost an insane ace!
Muscle up however you can to carry the second fairway so that you can reach this green in two — sometimes it’s a high-teed driver straight ahead, and other times you’ll rotate right and play a C3 driver to get out there, trying to avoid the sand and rough. Here’s an example hole-out.
With a big wind here, you may be able to shatter your long drive record by playing a high-teed C3 shot — this one almost made the green! This one did carry the green and almost found the hole — huge!
And while the Turbo A1 is still in existence, here’s a 500-yard drive that hops onto the green by the cup!
Nothing wrong with laying back in the first fairway — here’s an example hole-out.
You can play to either fairway here depending on the wind and what gives you the best approach shot.
The left fairway is the safest since you can blast away with no sand trouble. Here’s a 9-wood dunk! This shot caught the front rough but shot forward into the cup!
From the right fairway, this approach found a front-right pin.
This hole can be brutal with a headwind or a tough pin placement. Rock is long, meaning you’ll bounce back short.
From the center box, this 6-iron played a small cut into a headwind and sucked back into a front pin. This 8-iron floated over to a left pin. And this 9-iron banked off the back wall into a back pin. Here’s another 9-iron that bounced off the wall twice and trickled back into a front pin.
Here’s an ace from the front-right box. Here’s another to a right pin. And check out this amazing 4-hybrid to counteract a headwind, wow.
Coming in sideways seems to help counteract the nasty up-12 slope — here’s another example curving into a right pin.
Here’s a nice shot from the back-right box that used a little bank off the back. This one is amazing — off the top of the back rock, right into the cup!
This tee shot fell off down to the right, but check out the incredible save!
In some cases you can blast a huge drive all the way past the sand to leave a short approach shot — here’s a great DE hole-out with roll through the rough.
This drive settled in the fairway just past the water and found the cup from there.
This drive laid up back in the neck before water, and here’s a hole-out from there.
Here’s a 3-wood that settled into a back pin. And this 5-wood used the hill nicely to bounce into a front pin.
This 3-wood played a left-to-right curve to settle into a back pin!
Here is the official preview of the new 2014 Greek course, and this article breaks down the course even further.
This post contains tips, tricks, and information related to the 2014 Golden Tee course Greek Hills! Check out the hole-by-hole breakdowns and example hole-outs as I partner up with the Golden Tee community to give you the edge you need to beat your friends!
This is another fun course that requires many types of shots to score well, and you’ll enjoy the scenery in the process.
Most pros use the Flares on this course since the 7-wood (or 9-wood) is quite advantageous on a couple shots, but you can certainly get by playing the Hawks as well. If you don’t like to change clubs, then this is the year to play the Hawks across the board. Many pros like the Streak balls for their distance, but I like the Razors this year to give you backspin and roll as well as distance and a soft landing on the green.
You can always drive out to the second fairway. If you’re playing Flares or Ballistas (or have a high-lofted wood), it’s pretty safe to blast away and hit your approach over the trees into the green. Here’s a 7-wood over the top. With Ballistas, you can aim back a little farther and take a 6-wood over.
This 9-wood could have cleared, but Dan works it around to curve it into a right cup!
If you don’t have a 7-wood in the bag, lay back in that second fairway to give yourself a 5-wood shot over the trees instead — here’s an example hole-out.
Finally, especially with a right pin, it is possible to lay up at the end of the first fairway and take a driver in with the approach!
Here’s a driver ace from the back-right tee box. This 3-wood cut through the trees straight to a back-right pin. And this 3-wood aced a back-left pin.
This high-teed 4-wood played a huge curve around and perfectly into a front-left pin. With a front pin, it’s often nice to play the hop off the rough in front, although you can’t always expect a one-hopper into the hole!
Most of the time you can blast a drive ahead to the left fairway, getting far enough to leave an open approach shot. Here’s a hole-out from there.
Another option is blasting ahead to the rough area to the right, also leaving an open approach. There are a few rocks and things that pose a little bit of risk, though. Here’s a hole-out from there.
Finally, you can lay up at the end of the right fairway and curve your approach in from there. Or, a 9-wood can go over the top of the right trees. This 9-wood went right over everything from a spot in the middle of that fairway outlet.
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 fairway is narrow and there’s still water in play. Here’s one from the rough past all the sand.
There is also a bubble of fairway in the neck that you can aim for — this should be a much easier spot to stick. You can still reach the green in two from there — here’s a nice driver hole-out. This one played the left hill as a bankboard and spun one in the hole from there.
You can usually take aim right at this green and play a B1 swerve shot into the green. This 5-wood found the hole after a nice hop off the front rough. Here’s a perfectly-played 3-wood ace.
Here’s a nice aggressive 4-wood into a back pin!
Just play out to the second fairway past the sand to give yourself an open approach shot into this green. Here’s a nice 5-wood hole-out to a right pin.
You can rarely drive the green on this par 5! A big C3 with a helping wind can sometimes carry there. Here’s another one that found the green. This C3 hopped over the sand and made it on too.
You can also rarely blast a drive ahead to the second fairway with great conditions, which allow you to play maybe just a small curve shot around the hill on your approach into the green.
Perhaps the next best spot to be is in the rough to the left of the island fairway patch straight ahead. If you can stick this area, you can float a 5-wood into the green — here’s a 5-wood hole-out from there.
Also, towards the end of this fairway, you’ll have a bit of a closer approach (likely with driver still), but it’s tougher to stick this spot on the left end of the fairway — here’s a hole-out from there.
Your next option should be laying back to the left in the first fairway, just short of where the trees would interfere with your approach in. This gives you a long, but usually manageable, approach in as well. Here’s a driver hole-out from there.
That island fairway landing spot is very tough to stick. And if you miss, it can be tough to recover from there (see demo). Here’s a 3-wood hole-out from there.
