This par 3 has three totally different tee boxes and a brutally-shaped green. The pin placement here can be horrendous. Do your best not to trap yourself without a clear putt at the pin! Birdie is a great score here.
EXAMPLE HOLE-OUT
This par 5 has a couple shortcuts — one is fairly easy, and one is very tough. If you’re on one of the left tee boxes, look across the river and you’ll see a circular landing area to the back and left of a tree there. If it’s reachable, this is your best option. The approach is tough, but hey, it’s a par 5 and you’re shooting into it in 2!
If you can’t reach that spot, there’s a strip of land separating the pond in the middle from the big river dividing the hole. If you’re feeling daring, you can try to stick this spot, where you will also be rewarded a shot into the green in 2. Don’t miss left, because that’s wet! If you miss right, it’s mud and that’s okay — you can just lay up out to the right and bring your approach in for 3, as you’d be doing anyway if you didn’t try the shortcut!
This is a great risk/reward hole that can really impact your score!
There are at least 4 tee boxes into this tough, elevated island green. If you have to use a low-lofted club, it’s really hard to carry the green and stick it — you may have to club up to a wood and try to finesse it. Just as important is neutralizing a side-wind if possible, and remember, if you’re playing a small cut shot, that will also decrease your distance a bit!
EXAMPLE HOLE-OUT 1
EXAMPLE HOLE-OUT 2
You will be tempted to pound your drive out into the grassy pothole dirt area straight ahead, but it’s usually not necessary. If you get as close to the end of the fairway as you can, you’ll have anywhere from a driver to a 5-wood into the green without too much problem. If you do have to approach with a driver, anticipate anything coming up short being slowed by the tall grass guarding the front of the green. Ideally, you want to clear this grass and stick the green, but if you’re coming in low and short, you’ll need a bit more power to fight through that grass!
If you have a closer tee box and a headwind, don’t be too scared of the pothole dirt area past the fairway — it’s usually not bad. Your best chance at reaching this par 5 in two may be to play a big A1 or C3 shot with roll and hope for at least one good bounce. Yes, at times, you’ll land right in one of those killer dirt areas and your ball will just die, but go for it! If you can get just a ways out there before your ball stops, you’ll be long enough to bring in your approach shot to the green without too much hassle.
Again, be careful of coming up short on your approach. There’s tall grass guarding the front of the green, and if you land there, you’ll have to guess on the power of your chip shot. I’ve also heard some people are getting “unplayable lie” penalties in this area! Out of tall grass, your ball seems to only go about 2/3 of your distance marker, so use that as a guide to apply anywhere on this course where you get in trouble!
Death has a new face in Golden Tee 2009, and it comes in the form of a dinky little par 3 on Grand Savannah’s 17th hole. This is already being called the toughest hole ever created, and with good reason — most people can’t escape without a bogey or much, much worse. It’s the ultimate round-killer.
So how do you attack this hole then? Let’s talk through each of the possible setups:
1) Wind at your back — congratulations! You have a legit chance at birdie, especially if the pin is on the right (which is rare). A strong wind blows a lofty club quite a ways, so pick a club and a shot that would normally end up short in the water and watch it carry up onto the green. It’s still crucial to LAND on the green, but with a tailwind, it should hold, giving you a birdie putt! Don’t use spin.
2) Side wind — awfully difficult, but you have a chance. A wedge should still hold the green here, so it’s just a matter of nailing the distance. Remember that a side wind cuts distance quite a bit for loft clubs, so take a shot that would normally hit the hill in the back, and you might be okay!
3) Wind in your face — here’s the round killer. There aren’t many options. If you hit a wedge, a few things might happen, and they are all bad. First, you could go over the hill, leaving you an impossible chip over the hill where the wind will push it right in the water. Secondly, you end up on the side somewhere and still have to deal with a chip where the wind and slope push the ball into the water. Third, and most likely, you’ll land short of the top of the hill, where the ball will immediately be sucked into the water.
So what do you do in case 3? Normally, you stroke limit. But since you have nothing to lose, you try to learn a new shot. Take something like a 5-iron and try this — pull it back about halfway, and shoot forward about half-strength with backspin. The idea is to land on the front of the green and pray that the ball holds. I have not accomplished this yet, but I’ll let you know when I do. This shot is so tough because you have to carry water AND not be long because of the hill in the back, which will shoot the ball back down the hill.
However, if you want to protect a good round, play for par using these steps. First, club way up and aim for the grass/dirt behind the green on the right side. Landing it here is step one. Step two is making a small chip with backspin that lands on or just before this fat part of the green, where it will roll down a ways but not all the way to the water. Step three is making your big-breaking putt! Even if you two-putt for bogey here, you can bet you’ve done better than most guys playing the hole in this condition, and that should hold your rank in the competition!
Of all holes, this is probably the one where people would like to see YouTube holeouts the most. But, because of the distance requirements in order to save a holeout on YouTube, no hole-in-ones on this hole will ever qualify! Still, our pal Skipper took a video of his hole-in-one on this hole to help us out — the quality is lacking, but it’s the best we’ve got for now — thanks Skipper!
Did you escape 17 without killing your round completely? No? Keep at it — it’s going to take a lot of practice. You’ll welcome anything after that, and hole 18 should be a birdie to finish your round on a positive note.
The ideal setup is one where you don’t have to use driver off the tee. The shot has to carry water into an elevated green, and normally a driver won’t have enough loft to clear the river. If you do have to use driver, try to be long rather than short! Unfortunately, you’re probably going to have to use roll off the tee, which does two things — first, it will prevent you from being wet because a C3 with roll will skip off the water and onto the green, but secondly, you’re probably going to end up long since your ball will still be sailing along too fast! Hey, at least you have a chip and a putt for birdie though!
In most cases, you can work a 3-wood backspin with a C3 around the trees. Be careful on the green too, which is tough! Eagle is very challenging, so make sure you get that birdie at worst!
EXAMPLE HOLE-OUT 1
FANTASTIC SHOT
ANOTHER INCREDIBLE SHOT
THANK GOODNESS FOR THE PIN!
CRAZY GOOD SPIN ON THIS ONE
This section contains an overview of all the 2007 Golden Tee Live courses, including tips and tricks for each 2007 course. View the video clip below for an overview of the 2007 courses!
Some guys in the Chicago area have spun some rounds on the 2009 courses already, and here’s what they are saying.
I’m not sure how long it will be until we have 2009 in my area, but I’ll fill up the site with comments and reviews as I see them and when I eventually get to play the new courses! Following are more comments from players thus far:
Jeff S — Overall, the 2009 layout has some incredible courses that will no doubt be challenging for many people. If you don’t know how to properly curve a shot…..good luck….because you’re going to have to learn…..well!
I see myself using the “new woods” on every course right now…
CTTP (from AMJ):
I’ve never doubted that this would be really fun…. My question was whether people would turn a consistent profit playing. Well… one guy has already (Donahue). We played 4 times. I got a hole in one in our last round and nobody else got one. I looked at the leaderboards when I got home last night:
Round 1: 4.49 ft – 8th out of 48, 3 people with Aces (Donahue actually had 2 
)
Round 2: 3.84 ft – 3rd out of 41, 2 people with Aces – This setup was BRUTAL. I think there were only 2 par 3s, and some of the par 4s were BASTARDS.
Round 3: 8.78 ft – 16th out of 45, 2 people with Aces (one was Donahue)
Round 4: Ace – t1st out of 26, 3 people with Aces
Overall, I think there will be fewer aces than I predicted, but that’s because I underestimated the number of par 4 (hard ones) and the difficulty of some of the par 3s. I’ve never been much of a “go after the ace” guy, as evidenced by my severe lack of hole in ones. I think there will be guys (Donahue I guess) that can do alright on CTTP….. but it al depends on how many randoms start playing CTTP.
AMJ — Nice courses. I heard someone mention learning cut shots. I don’t think there are too many more cut shots needed to get at greens, but I think there are a lot more cut shots needed to control the ball when it gets to the green. I was amazed at some of the slope on these greens. There was a Hole #13 with a down 12 green. The last par 3s on each course all had brutal slopes, that could really test distance control and cut shots. The greens, overall, seem like they are much smaller than previous releases and some of the funny shaped greens are just that…. Funny.
The NEW WOODS were fun, but I’m not seeing much use for them other than probably Blackwood. I think I’ll be working with the Low Lofts (and D2) on the rest of the courses.
Slider045 — I would guess old long dogs on Savanah, maybe 0-birds on the farm to get through the covered bridge, big bertha on the hills, and I like old birds on the last two, but at this point, and since I suck, hard to tell. I tried old birds on the farm tonight and have NO idea how to get through that covered bridge. But otherwise I like the old birds for the most part on the other 3.
MREstepp — Plain and simple…They are awesome.
By far the hardest courses ever designed. Much more like 2007.
If you don’t know how to cut the ball…you will be screwed.
If you can’t control distance…you will be screwed.
Having a course that sets up for -30 or even -31 is great to see again.
Black Hills owns me after 2 games.
The amusement park course is sneaky hard.
The animation is beautiful.
The CTTP thing can set up brutal. There will be plenty of those won without an ace.
I would also like to add that the line is different this year…at least to me. Visually, it looks like everything is lined up to the right of the pin, when in reality it is dead on.
ToddL — Yes, the line is at the far left end of the cursor, whereas before it was 1/8″ in from the left edge of the cursor. I think that screwed me up a few times.
H0TR0D13 — I think Sonny Wood is the funnest to play. Follwed closely by the farm course. 18 on the farm course is going to cause some problems. I stroked out on 18 on Black Hills. I thought the “Falls” hole was pretty cool. i did however have a little problem with it. I had the tee box all the way to the right. I didnt have a direct line to the green. Wind was left to right at 14. I had to hit a 5w around the hill and keep it left of the water. Success. That was the only way I saw to get there in one with that set up. Then I had a 243 foot right 7 putt to the hole. The I had a 124 foot right 7 to the hole. Finally made my third for a par. I would have been better off going around. That fuggin sucks.
I think Bonnie Moor is going to quickly turn into Cypress during the qualifier. It doesnt look like there is that much trouble on that course. Overall I really like them. Some of those greens are freakin rough! Should make for some interesting match play.
ETA: I also think its cool that the national leaderboard is back.
In this article, I posted in some dialogue from a great discussion on Underdog, prompted from a question I had emailed to me. A guy with a Golden Tee Complete machine was curious how all the courses stacked up against each other in difficulty, per year. Following is the discussion that entailed — enjoy!
Crawdad back 9. Toughest 9 ever!!! (at least for the 6 times I ever played that course)
I think Shadow Swamp would be in the race for hardest courses….along with Crawdad and maybe Heartland?
i played Shadow on my machine more than any other course so to me it wasnt near as hard as Crawdad. i think people saw Shadow as so hard because it was hard to shoot below a 23 or 24 when on the other courses at the time you could throw up a 29 or 28.
I think in terms of scoring Rattlesnake was always hard for me because of all the gamble holes!!! Man it was fun or it would just drive you insane. I always thought Sapphire was a pretty tough one also.
Perhaps Shadow seemed that way because par was lower….I haven’t played it in awhile myself.
Rattlesnake could be a bitch if things were open and you weren’t hitting them.
i tell you, we should talk about the toughest 16,17, and 18’s of one course. Seems like Blue Horizon was that big left 10% with the lava all around it on 17, and 18 was the one with the sand in front of it and lava on the back????
i think i stroked out on that 17 more than any including Heather Pointe 17!!!
I remember acing #17 on HP on my birthday in 2005, playing a money game with Junior, Al, and Frosty. Thems was good times.
Crawdad is probably the greatest course ever designed…along with Rattlesnake.
It would be extremely difficult to have those courses now without the “hammer”.
Heartland Creek was another one with a high level of difficulty.
I remember Heartland being easy (again, for the 6 times maybe). What’s Shadow Swamp?
Ahh, Blue Horizon. I aced #18 in a qualifier for a tourney. I’ll remember that one ’til I forget it.
Shadow Swamp was an addon course in the “”Extra”” DVD that came out on the 05 courses.
Good ace there Squeezie, did you herm it in from over the water or did it just fly too far, hit a rock and bounce in the hole like your normal aces?
Heartland was where i failed to learn how to hit the B3 shot with any type of consistency. Also Tommy Tuesday hole was on it right??
Heartland was not very easy Danny.
Shadow Swamp was basically Eagle Crest with some water.
It was a screaming cut 2i bs that found the .1″ of the front right green pin placement that allowed it to stay on the green, and slithered in for a nice $30.
Golden tee complete, year by year toughest courses(IMO)… And, when I mean toughest, I mean toughest to get GT par, not the best score.
Ranked from toughest to easiest…
2001:
Mystic Hills
Suerte Del Sol
Crimson Rock
Rolling Acres(9 hole course)
Royal Bannockburn(9 hole course)
2002:
Rattlesnake Ridge
Castleshire
Maple Acres
Pine Meadow
BaySide
2003:
Crawdad Swamp
Kings Canyon
Buckhorn
Kiwi Springs
Bluestone
2004:
Heartland Creek
Eagles Peak
Sword’s Pointe(tie)
Tropical Falls(tie)
Blue Horizon
2005:
Balmoral Greens
Sapphire Springs
Ridgewood
Painted Gorge
Oak Hollow
2006 LIVE!
Cumberland
Heather Pointe
Kangaroo Trail
Coral Vista
Whispering Valley
2007 LIVE!:
Moose Landing
Rustic Bridge
Glacier Ranch
Indigo Mound
Palm Springs
–Sonu
’02 and ’03 were the best years as far as all 5 courses. IMO
Matt, I was just going to type the same thing.
I think 2002 wins.
I would agree with that statement as well.
Although Crawdad still might be the best course ever designed.
Challenging, but not stupid.
The thing I hated about 02 courses were the green hills/ridges. Especially when you got stuck halfway up!! You had to at least 2 putt, if you got lucky…
I wish they would bring back tiered greens. They were fun.
Of course there would have to be some tweaks.
Has anyone ever played a full cycle on a Complete in one sitting?
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Almost. When I was down in Kansas over Thanksgiving, I had a day to play GT while my wife hung out with friends. Sadly, the two locations that said they had 2008 Lives, had nothing. So I played Complete for like 5 hours. The machine wouldn’t take 5s, 10s, or 20s 
. A couple of the courses would always freeze up on hole 1 (Heartland and Kings), so I didn’t get to play those, but I think I played just about everything else.
Sonu’s listings are pretty much spot-on I’d say. I had a tougher time with Sapphire than I did with Balmoral, but that’s pretty much a crapshoot. I’d also swap Coral and the ‘Roo, but that’s debateable as well. I also agree with Matt and Tony, ’02 and ’03 were some kickass courses!
Borrowing from a blog on underdogsports, I’ve compiled votes for the toughest holes on 2008 Golden Tee Live. In most cases, votes went to holes where it’s toughest to make GT Par. There weren’t an overwhelming number of votes in that blog, but enough to be able to point out several of the potential stumbling points during your round. Here are the results!
#1 Toughest Hole — #18 at Misty Springs. This hole got votes from 6 different people, twice what any other hole got.
Next 2 Toughest Holes — #17 at Summit Lakes and #16 at Misty Springs. These holes got votes from 3 different people.
Other holes receiving votes from multiple people — #14 at Bayou Bay, #17 at Eagle Crest, #3 at Cypress Cove, and #11 at Misty Springs.
The following holes also received votes as being among the toughest in the game — #s 9, 11, and 17 at Bayou Bay, #s 10 and 13 at Summit Lakes, and #9 at Cypress Cove.
Feel free to add comments below to vote for any of these or any other holes on Golden Tee 2008 that you consistently struggle with!
The votes are in! Borrowing from a blog on underdogsports.net, there have been enough votes to have a consensus on the difficulty ranking of each 2008 course in Golden Tee Live. Here’s the breakdown, from hardest to easiest:
1) Bayou Bay — got 41 of 68 votes for hardest course, and average rank was 1.57.
2) Misty Springs — got 17 of 68 votes for hardest course, and average rank was 1.93.
3) Summit Lakes — got 6 of 68 votes for hardest course, and average rank was 3.14.
4) Eagle Crest — got 3 of 68 votes for hardest course, and average rank was 4.5.
5) Cypress Cove — got 1 of 68 votes for hardest course, and average rank was 4.5.
This section breaks down how to play each hole at Golden Tee’s Summit Lakes, in Yukon Territory, Canada, which was voted the 3rd hardest of the 2008 courses by the expert community. The par 3 17th hole got multiple votes as one of the toughest holes in Golden Tee Live 2008, and holes 10 and 13 also got votes for being among the hardest.
Check back here and learn even more tips and tricks, and how to play from each of the tee boxes on the course!
When you’re done reading, click here to download and save a printable version of these tips that you can take to the bar while you play!
After polling several of the experts, there are three different ways people choose to set up for Golden Tee Live 2008 Summit Lakes.
Three different options are presented towards playing Summit Lakes. The most popular choice is to use the old hybrids (”old birds”) and the orange balls. The next most popular option is to use the low-loft (FTX) clubs and the D2 (high-spin) balls, and another smaller crowd prefers to use the low-loft (FTX) clubs and the orange balls.
Of course, the choice is yours, but it’s helpful to know how the pros set up to play Summit Lakes!
An easy par 4 to start, as usual – just try to position your tee shot with a straight-in wind so that you have the best chance of holing out your approach shot, or at least getting Great Shot Points! Here’s an example hole-out. It’s always easy to turn left once and pound an A1 with roll for extra distance.
This par 3 plays slightly uphill, so above all else, make sure you don’t leave it short in the water! Here’s a backspin hole-out to a front pin, and here’s an example hole-out to a back pin.
Here’s an occasionally drivable par 4. If the lake is frozen, be glad, because most of the water the rest of the way will be too! The round will play much easier than if the water is in liquid form.
From the front of this huge tee box, you can get to the green with a big tailwind and an A1 that will bounce off the ice and onto the green.
If you’re close and have a good wind but the lake is not ice, you can still get close to the green for a chip if you turn right and hit a C3 (a lucky topspin bounce could land you on the green this way as well…check out this incredible ace!) If your tee shot accidentally rolls into the snow, it will sit up, and you can still usually get there in two (remember backspin won’t work as well) — here’s a dunk from the snow!
The safe approach works too – there’s no reason you can’t lay up at the end of the first fairway and hit your approach into the green from there! But you usually can hit a straight B2 driver over the snow and into the bottom fairway as well.
On this par 5, you should always be able to reach the bottom fairway off the tee. Don’t worry about clearing the mountain either – even a low-loft driver with roll will go straight over the edge of the mountain. Simply turn left until you are lined up to land in the rough between the snow and water down below. Crank a hard, straight B2 drive with roll, and your ball will roll out of the rough and into the fairway. If you’re comfortable with your C3, that gets down there easily too. From there, you should have a nice approach shot into the green for an eagle putt! Here’s a hole-out with a 5-wood.
Even if you get into the far snow mound, you’ll still have enough to get there — here’s another hole-out.
Don’t take this tee shot for granted – make sure you end up in the middle of the fairway, because there’s trouble right and left! Stay in the middle and you’re in good shape to birdie. Here’s an example hole-out.
This shot is tough because the wind affects it so much. Play one less club because of the downhill shot, and compensate for the wind more than usual since the ball will be in the air longer! Here’s a great floater to a back pin.
This par 4 is drivable 90% of the time.
The left side of this tee box is money – hit a straight wood with backspin to the green. Here’s a nice 3-wood down and in!
From the middle of the box, you’ll need to hit a B1 or a small A1 around the mountain to get there. Here’s a nice cut-shot around the mountain for an ace!
The right side of this box gives you trouble. You can try to hit a topspin driver off the mountain and try to get lucky, but watch out – you could go into the water past the green. And, if this happens, it will put you back on the tee box!
To reach this par 5 in two, you’ll have to get on or past the little bottleneck between the fairways. Of course, there’s trouble on either side, with water on the left and nasty rough on the right. Normally, you can aim at the right small path along the lake and hit a big C3. Assuming you clear trouble to the fairway, you’ll have an iron to driver shot into the green. Here’s an example hole-out.
The shot here, though, is most often turning left and hitting a big A1 with roll. This is a classic example of where the ball will skip across the water even if you come up short of land when it hits.
If you don’t think you can clear the first fairway, laying up is much better than being in the water or the nasty rough.
Or, from the front of the box, you can aim at the flag and blast the ball straight ahead into the snow (a low-risk option). The elevation will be low, and you need as much distance as you can safely get, so pound it out there! Even when the ball plugs, you can still get to the green on your second shot. This is a good option if you’re a beginner and don’t trust your accuracy over the bottleneck.
This par 4 is drivable a lot of the time. If there’s ice, it’s that much easier. Just go for it and don’t worry about getting wet.
Or, if you can’t get there, line up with the wind for a straight-wind approach shot from just about anywhere.
Without ice, you may have anywhere from a straight shot to a big A1 or C3. Here’s a nice driver hole-out. And one more perfect shot with a slight tailwind. With a tougher setup, here’s a great A1 drive that finds the hole!
Sometimes you could be into a huge wind from the very back of the box. You can’t get there with this setup. Lay up in the snow below you, but make sure you hit the flyby button a few times to check out the terrain. The snow has mounds and you won’t be able to get there in two if you get stuck behind one.
Remember that this green is WAY downhill, and the wind will REALLY blow it again. Your ball will be coming straight down from the tee even with a driver. A strong face-wind makes it really hard to hold the green, so definitely don’t use backspin with this setup (try to land long).
The fairway is separated in two here. Most of the time, you’ll just want to lay up toward the end of the first fairway, which will leave you with an easy 5-wood to the green. Here’s a hole-out from in front of the snow.
If there’s a big wind and you’re at the front of the box, you can get to the second fairway pretty easily, where you’ll have a nice iron shot in.
When in doubt, lay up short, because distance on the approach shot won’t be an issue! You’ll often have a 5-wood into the green, so make sure you read the wind and slope correctly to get near the pin on this sloped green.
It’s rumored that this green has been driven once or twice when the lake is ice, but you probably won’t be thinking about that! If this hole is icy, though, blast an A1 or C3 as far down the ice as you can, leaving yourself with a nice approach shot with the wind. Here’s a nice hole-out from the ice!
If the lake is water, lay up on top of the hill on either side (whatever gives you a better approach shot with the wind). You should then have from a 2-iron to a 3-wood from there. Here’s a hole-out from the fairway. On your approach shot, if you’re using a low-lofted club, it also works well to apply backspin and land the ball in the sand short of the green. It’s flat, so it will hop out of there and creep up nicely towards the pin!
This hole is really tough. Adjust your club because of the elevation change, and whether or not to use backspin depends on the wind. You’ll probably have to fight the wind here with some kind of angled shot, but if you’re off just a bit, you’ll be in the sand or worse. Good luck!
There’s another tee box where you shoot uphill at the green — this shot got a nice bounce up and in!
The shortcut here is to rotate to the right a few times and try to land the ball on the green patch in between the cabins. If it looks tough, it is. If you can stick it here, though, you’ll have a wood into the green for eagle. Don’t be long over the green, though, because it’s out of bounds there!
Going down the island fairways will mostly never get you there in two, but it’s a good way to lay up if you’re 350+ to the cabins into a big wind and there’s no ice. You may as well try a big A1 with backspin, hoping to get lucky and stick on one of the island patches. Here’s a hole-out from there.
If there’s a good wind, or you’re close enough on the box, you can blast a drive over the cabins into the snow. You should still be able to reach the green in two from here also, and it doesn’t require a precision drive! Here’s a hole-out from the snow.
Finally, if the lake is ice and you have a back tee box, don’t be afraid to crank a drive onto the ice just left of the cabins. You may be able to reach the green in two from here as well!
This hole is always drivable over the rock. If you’re close enough to be able to use a 3-wood, it will clear the rock. A driver will usually hit the top of the rock, but it will bounce over. If you have to hit driver, use backspin and aim for the right side of the green. The rock will kill the backspin, but the ball should bounce over the rock and trickle down onto the green — this is how you draw it up! Sometimes you will plop into the snow, but you’re still in good shape there.
If you do end up on the hill looking down at the green, remember that you can putt off the hill! Here’s an amazing deflection that found the cup!
If this hole is icy, you can get close to the green, even maybe making it with a couple lucky bounces (be careful for some of the ice holes, because there’s water still in a couple).
This hole usually plays tough because of the wind and a downhill shot into the green. Try to leave your approach shot straight with the wind. Here’s a great hole-out from the fairway. Sometimes, it’s best to place your drive straight ahead onto the rock, depending on wind and pin placement. Don’t be scared to do this if it gives you a better approach shot!
A good rule of “thumb” here: When hitting from the rough with a wind in the teens blowing from behind, you will want to hit a club whose normal distance (ex: 9-iron = 100yds) will land the green, and hit a full thumb shot (no pullback). If you’re into the wind, you will need to club up 1 or even 2.
Your first decision will be whether or not you can reach the second fairway here, which may require a monster C3 at times (and other times it’s easy). If you get across, you have a good shot at eagle.
If you’re on the back of the box and into a wind, don’t try it unless there’s ice. If there is ice, just blast away, because you can probably get there in two from the ice.
Remember that if you can almost get to the second fairway, you can probably skip it across using an A1 shot with roll! Here’s a hole-out after a long drive.
If you do have to lay up, check if facing the green shows any wind to the left. If so, lay up on the first fairway toward the left side, close to the water. From here, it’s 360-400 to the green, but you can get there in 2 with a big C3 topspin and a couple lucky bounces.
Also from the back box, if the wind is going to the right at all, click one left of the green and notice the green landing zone in between the mountains. If you stick this, you will have a big A1 5-wood to the green (don’t go this way if there’s water, only if there’s ice. That way, you’ll still get birdie if you mess up and land on the lake). Additionally, while trying to stick a landing spot with a big slope, don’t use backspin or topspin, as the ball likes to keep bouncing all the way off and into the water.
Finally, you can land up top on the hill to the left, but on your approach shot, watch out for the moose!
In some cases, you can actually get to the top of the second hill! Here’s a hole-out from there.
A very tough par 3 with thousands of looks. A big wind is absolutely brutal here, as it will blow a shot from your high-lofted club all over. Pray for ice here in case you don’t make it on. And even if you do make it, watch out for a down 10 putt because it will still roll over if you’re not careful! You normally won’t want backspin here because of the up 10 slope. Sometimes you can use the hill to stop your ball instead, but don’t hit the hill too hard or you’ll ricochet back into the water! You may also consider just landing in the snow if there’s a back pin. Par is a good score here. Good luck!
Check out this dunk to a right pin! Here’s a perfect cut shot into the slope. This one flew high to the right side, playing the wind perfectly with the 9-wood.
