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Antelope Pass — Hole #4: Par 4
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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.
Antelope Pass — Hole #5: Par 4
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It is always possible to get this green, but it can be very difficult from the far left box. You may need a full, perfect cut that barely misses the mountain on the way around.
From the back-center box, it gets easier, and you can go high or low since a high-teed wood can cut the corner over the top a bit. This high-teed 5-wood cut up and over for the dunk! And this 4-wood cut around for another nice dunk.
From the front box, it’s even easier to get a high-lofted wood over the corner, but the curve-around options are still there too…here’s a 5-wood that backspins into the cup. Here’s another one with the low-teed 5-wood. And with a headwind, here’s a high-teed 5W to a left pin.
Antelope Pass — Hole #6: Par 5
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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 players can cut a driver around the sand and backspin it left to stick the far left edge of the fairway. It provides an easier approach, but for most of us, the risk is not worth the reward.
Antelope Pass — Hole #8: Par 5
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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 into the green — here’s a driver hole-out from that spot.
If you lay up in front of the sand straight ahead, curving around left-to-right with backspin, you’ll be able to curve a wood around the mountain into the green for your second…here’s a nice 4-wood hole-out from there.
With a back-right pin and a good tee box, you can blast straight ahead and have a decent shot into the green from the main fairway.
Finally, if you have something like a 7-wood, you could lay up short and left and come in over the mountain from that angle.
Antelope Pass — Hole #10: Par 4
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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.
Antelope Pass — Hole #11: Par 4
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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 to the green and dropped in the hole!
Antelope Pass — Hole #12: Par 5
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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 two. Here’s an example hole-out with the 3-wood.
If you do get a look where you are lined up with one of the larger landing areas in the neck, that’s fine too — here’s a 3-wood hole-out from one of those spots!
Antelope Pass — Hole #13: Par 3
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Vastly different looks from front to back here. From the front box, you’ll often use a tee to move around the box and see if you want to high-tee or low-tee a wedge to get the right distance. This sand wedge spun back into a front pin. This lob wedge also finds a front cup.
Antelope Pass — Hole #14: Par 5
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Any hole that gives you a chance at double eagle is a lot of fun, and this par 5 sets up to be driveable every time! If you know you can clear the mountains, there’s no harm missing the green, and at worst you should have a DE chip, so it’s worth a try. The 5-wood carries much farther than you might think!
From the front-right box, you can rotate right once and cut a wood into the green…this high-teed 5-wood caught the mountain bounce with a perfect deflection into a front pin! This one carried the green to find the cup. This 6-wood also curved around to find the hole. Here’s another 6-wood that carried enough to use backspin to suck into the cup. With a tailwind, even a high-teed 9-wood may have enough to just go straight at it!
From the back box, you can take pretty straight aim with a high-teed 5-wood (or in most cases a high-teed 4W works too).
Or, you can rotate right and cut a high-teed 3-wood over/through the mountains into the green…check out this great bounce at the end for the super albatross! This high-teed 4W landed cleanly with a bit of spin back for another one.
For those newer players who choose to lay up to the left, here’s a fun driver with a couple crazy bounces to find the hole!
Antelope Pass — Hole #15: Par 4
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From the front-right box, here’s a 4-wood ace to a front pin.
From the back-right box, this high-teed driver caught the rock by the green on the right but deflected perfectly left for an ace! And this high-teed 5-wood came at it over the top, cutting into the wind to find the hole. Here’s a high-teed 4-wood that got a nice little hop into the cup as well. With a side or tailwind, a well-hit medium-teed 4-wood with backspin is a nice option to stick and hold the green.
From the left box, this high-teed 6-wood found a gap over the top into a front pin! This high-teed 5-wood also curved left over the top to find the hole.
Antelope Pass — Hole #16: Par 5
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Your tee box will determine how far down the fairway you can get your drive, and as you can guess, the farther, the better. From the back boxes, you can often play it save and hammer a high-teed driver straight ahead over the mountain, leaving you a straight or slightly-curved shot into the green with a wood.
If you are back far enough, you can still take a wood over the corner of the mountain to the green — check out this 4-wood dunk.
If the wind is blowing right, you can consider turning left a couple times and playing a big A1 drive to the left side of the fairway, where you’ll have enough distance for your approach.
Finally, you can lay up in the right outlet of the fairway towards the green, at the front edge of it. From here, a 4 or 5-wood can clear the mountain and go straight at the green. This shot is difficult into a headwind, though.
Antelope Pass — Hole #17: Par 3
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With danger everywhere and an offset look, this is the toughest hole on the back 9. You’ll sometimes need to pull off highly-skilled shots to stick the green by the flag for a birdie putt here.
From the front-left box, here’s a 7-wood ace to a center pin. And check out this doomed shot that somehow gets the perfect incredible bounces over to the cup!
From the right-middle box, this shot was way too short but somehow bounced over, left, and in…amazing.
From the back box, this driver was off the mark but got a couple amazing bounces to shoot over to the left cup!
Antelope Pass — Hole #18: Par 4
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It’s all about distance control to close out this course…with a slightly uphill shot, you’ll need to clear the water to the green but not go so far as to bounce back off the rock into the water…practice will lend itself well here.
From the front-left box, here’s an easy 5-wood into a back-left pin. This 5-wood was way off left but got the generous bounces off the rock to find the hole! Here’s another 6-wood that rides the rock on the left and ends up in the cup! This one was way too low and short but got amazing bounces to find the cup!
From the back box, check out this 3-wood dunk to a front pin! Also, with a strong tail wind, you can get some help banking off the back…here’s a 4-wood that settled back into the cup!
Winding Pines — Golden Tee 2016
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Here is the official preview of the new 2016 Myrtle Beach, South Carolina course, and this article breaks down the course even further.
Here is a playlist with YouTube demo videos of all 18 holes from the beta version!
GT Par can range from -28 to -30 on this course depending on if you count #15 as an eagle hole (I wouldn’t)…the other hole that’s sometimes drivable is #4.
This post will contain tips, tricks, and information related to the 2016 Golden Tee course Winding Pines! 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!
The most popular club/ball combo on this course will also be discussed.
Winding Pines — Hole #1: Par 4
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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.
Winding Pines — Hole #2: Par 4
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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 or over the right side into a pin here.
Back-center is a great pin location where you can float a wood right over the top. From the back-right box, this high-teed 5-wood dunked to a center pin.
Winding Pines — Hole #4: Par 4
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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 as well, assuming you have a lob wedge in the bag. You’ll still have a chance at an eagle chip from there.
Most times from the back box, just lay up straight ahead — here’s a 7-iron dunk!
Winding Pines — Hole #5: Par 5
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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 option with a tough look off the tee is to play a big A1 out to the far right edge of the fairway. From here, you can curve a wood around the trees back into the green.
Winding Pines — Hole #7: Par 4
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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 box with a left pin and a right wind is to play a wood around the left side of the trees and curve it back right into the green.
Winding Pines — Hole #8: Par 5
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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 for an easier approach.
Many times from this box you’ll need to rotate right and play to the layup island. Find the wood that works best for you here — I really like a high-teed 4-wood when I have to play out here. You’ll then have a 3W or driver into the green, potentially needing to avoid some trees on the approach.
Also know that the fringe slopes off the green on this hole, so if you find yourself there, you’ll want to chip rather than putt.
Winding Pines — Hole #10: Par 4
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From the back left box, this is a very tough eagle. You’ll need to turn right and play a fairly big right-to-left cut into the green. This is most consistently available with a low-teed driver, but it requires a level of precision difficult to replicate. Here is the best recommended approach — play a bit straighter with a low-teed driver, using a smaller and lower cut to bounce into the green — check out this great ace. From another click right, a low-teed driver can work as well. The most common mistake is clipping the leaves by not having enough “3” or too much “C”.
Other ways to reach the hole, especially with a front pin on this box — you can hope to catch the top of the hill between the sand and the green to drop down onto the green…here’s a great example with a 3-wood that trickled down into the hole! Here’s another nice one with a 4-wood. Finally, check out this driver punched through a gap in the trees that bounces off the wall to the cup! Even if you stick on top of the hill, you could have a putt down to the green!
From the front box, you can high-tee a driver and punch it through any gap in the trees — here’s an example that finds the green. With a front pin, you can use a medium-teed driver with backspin to stick the front of the green after it clears the leaves. Another good option is a 0-hybrid cut through the trees to find the green for an ace.
Winding Pines — Hole #11: Par 5
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Several options here, some good and some bad.
Perhaps the best option is to cut through the trees into the area straight ahead towards the green, landing in the rough for hopefully an open shot at the green…as long as you clear through the trees there is open rough area in front of it before the water. This option is there unless you have a strong headwind and bad tee box. Here’s a hole-out from there. Here’s another one from a bit farther up.
Next, you can cut something like a 3-4-wood around the left to the other fairway shortcut spot, which leaves a much straighter approach into the green.
Also, you can land the shortcut fairway spot straight ahead, but it always leaves a challenging approach shot because of the tricky curve around and through the sets of trees.
Finally, you can sometimes carry the main fairway out right to bring a long approach around for eagle. Here’s a driver through the gap to a back pin.
Winding Pines — Hole #12: Par 3
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From the front box, here’s a SW ace to a back pin. And here’s a lob wedge to a front pin.
Winding Pines — Hole #13: Par 4
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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. Just remember to have enough loft to carry the green but not so much loft to clip any leaves on your way in!