Jamaica Bay — Hole #12: Par 5
By Golden Tee Fan • Category: Jamaica Bay • • Leave a Comment (0)From the left fairway, this 3-wood finds a right cup.
From the left fairway, this 3-wood finds a right cup.
With a tailwind, this driver with bite finds a back pin.
Here’s an 8-iron ace.
Here’s a tricky par 4 where you can curve around either side of the trees, but the distance is challenging as it is usually somewhere between a 6-wood and 9-wood, where the curve can be tough.
Here’s a great 6-wood around the right side, barely missing the trees to spin in the hole.
Check out this 2-iron shot through the trees right at it, hopping up the sand onto the green and into the cup!
Here’s a great driver with bite around the left side that finds the cup. Using a high tee, this one plays a smaller cut to carry down to a back pin.
This 5-wood plays a small cut around/over the left side of the trees more directly at the hole to find the pin. Here’s another 5-wood cut shot to a top pin.
With some boxes this hole is drivable — here’s an opening ace from a pretty close box.
This hole is often drivable as well. However, if you’re not quite sure, you can sort of bail out to the right (or even the left) to ensure you don’t get wet and still give yourself a chip at eagle.
Here’s a 9-iron hole-out from the fairway.
Here’s an ace with the 3-hybrid.
Here you’ll normally just hug the right side of the fairway to give yourself an open approach at the pin.
You’ll often use a tee here to move left, if nothing more, so that you have a straight approach around/over the trees down into this green.
Here’s a towering 8-wood that drops in the cup.
The best setups allow you to high-tee a driver and carry down to the second fairway, offering a straighter approach at the green.
With other looks, it’s good to float down to the island fairway spot in the middle for your approach. Here’s a 4-wood hole-out from there.
Finally, if you’d rather limit risk off the tee, you can lay up at the end of the left fairway and usually have enough distance and loft to be able to carry over the trees at the green.
This one’s mainly about distance control, as the wind won’t be awful yet but you’re forced to navigate it while floating downhill into this island green. Anywhere on the green could be considered a good shot here and give a great chance at eagle.
Here’s a 7-wood ace.
Don’t overthink this one too much – it’s typically just a punch shot to the end of the fairway straight ahead to set up your approach over the water.
However, if you’re feeling adventurous, you can hook a drive around to the right and bring in a shorter shot from the rough. From there, this 8-iron finds the cup.
The end of the left fairway usually offers a pretty straight approach, but sometimes distance can be an issue…you might have to carry a driver over the water into the green. After a drive in the fairway, this 10.5 driver had enough loft to clear the trees for a straight approach at the green and found the cup.
Playing out to the right fairway may be good from other tee boxes where you can blast far enough not to have to curve a shot into the green, as you’ll be quite a bit closer to the pin than from the left fairway too.
Hugging the left side of the fairway is often the best play here and many times leaves you with a straight approach into the green.
This is a nasty par 4 for all the reasons — wind, elevation, rock and water around a sloping green. Sometimes it’s challenging just to stick the green. Usually you’re trying to come in around the left of the trees.
However, shooting the gap to tie right can be an option too. Here’s a great 3-wood through the gap on the right side for the ace.
Some boxes allow for a drive out to the far-right fairway, which is a good option if you can get out far enough for a fairly straight approach into the green. After a drive out to the far right fairway, this 5-wood curls around for the hole-out.
Most other setups call for playing to the end of the center fairway, which might require working the ball right-to-left to get out for a clear approach. After curling around to the end of the center fairway, this 5-hybrid-wood drops in the cup.
Finally, there’s a fairway patch out left that presents a nice approach option but is difficult to reach…it requires something like a 3-wood worked through a small gap in the trees off the tee box.
This opening par 4 is sometimes drivable. There’s a close tee box where you can take straight aim at the green…here’s a high-teed driver that cleared the dirt to bounce up and in.
Other tee boxes give you a chance to curl a C3 driver up close to the green for a chip or putt, as long as you avoid the dirt!
Here’s a 5-wood ace straight over the barn to a back pin.
Here’s an 8-iron ace.
From the jutting end of the fairway, this 3-wood approach finds the cup.
Some closer tee boxes offer an option to play into the dirt out to the left, straighter at the green. Here’s a 7-wood hole-out from there.