Once again, lay out at the northern-most point of the fairway, as close to the water as you can safely get.  One thing to note on your approach is that a driver stays underneath the leaves of the tree that tries to get in your way, so you shouldn’t have to take it way out […]

EXAMPLE HOLE-OUT

Just lay back behind the sand on the left — no reason to kill a drive here.  Here’s an example hole-out. There may be rare cases where you can drive this green — here’s a really long high-teed driver that almost went in!  Here’s another close one around the other side.  The Air-Os can also […]

EXAMPLE HOLE-OUT

Handicap: 7th hardest hole Category: Difficult Average Score: -0.76 / -2.00  Eagle+ 25% Birdie 48% Par 13% Bogey 8% Double+ 6% You should almost always drive out to the left here. Consider the wind and pin placement, and put your ball in a position that allows the best approach shot through the gap in the […]

Handicap: 5th hardest hole Category: Difficult Average Score: -0.28 / -1.00  Eagle+ Birdie 46% Par 41% Bogey 11% Double+ 12% Check out the wind and tee position, because you may be able to drive this hole! If you’ve got a big tailwind, consider teeing high a driver, which can carry 380 to the green if […]

Handicap: 9th hardest hole Category: Difficult Average Score: -1.22 / -2.00  Eagle+ 47% Birdie 31% Par 19% Bogey 3% Double+ You’ll be cutting around the corner with an A1-type shot, but accuracy is more important than distance here. A left-blowing wind makes this tee shot very difficult, so you may want low loft so you […]

Handicap: 2nd hardest hole Category: Difficult Average Score: -0.25 / -1.00  Eagle+ Birdie 39% Par 49% Bogey 10% Double+ 2% The challenge here lies in the slope of the green, because it’s hard to sustain a cut shot into that slope when you’re shooting downhill. Be happy just to stick this green for a birdie […]

Handicap: 16th hardest hole Category: Easy Average Score: -0.81 / -1.00 Eagle+ Birdie 83% Par 15% Bogey 2% Double+ If you get the “ladies tee box” up front and left, you can sometimes drive the green — check out this ace! Otherwise, carry down to the second fairway if you can — here’s a hole-out […]

Handicap: 14th hardest hole Category: Easy Average Score: -1.56 / -2.00 Eagle+ 66% Birdie 36% Par 4% Bogey Double+ The best option, if it’s there, is to blast it down the left side. There’s sand in the fairway to the left, but you don’t necessarily have to be to the right of it — you […]

Handicap: 13th hardest hole Category: Easy Average Score: -0.78 / -1.00 Eagle+ Birdie 84% Par 10% Bogey 6% Double+ This hole has two greens, but neither is very challenging. One green has a bit of slope but is pretty big — here’s a hole-out there. The other green has a trickier shape but is flat […]

Handicap: 11th hardest hole Category: Moderate Average Score: -1.33 / -2.00  Eagle+ 40% Birdie 53% Par 7% Bogey Double+ What a cool hole this one is. You can go any of three ways off the tee, and you can reach the green in two from any of them if you place your drive well enough! […]

Handicap: 12th hardest hole Category: Moderate Average Score: -1.43 / -2.00  Eagle+ 60% Birdie 24% Par 15% Bogey 1% Double+ This hole is not as intimidating as it might look. Loft isn’t usually an issue — in fact, most of the time you should NOT use a high tee so that you can apply backspin […]

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You won’t find any tips in this article, but I thought it’d be fun to share the process that GTF goes through when preparing for a year of new courses and new features! First, I soak up all the teasers and previews that start coming out 2-3 months before the release date.  I like to […]

You may have seen some pretty awesome YouTube shots this month where you saw someone (probably Putz) drive a par 4 that you never thought possible, just by hitting it straight.  I’ll point out four pretty sweet examples: Timber Bay #15 Grizzly Flats #7 Falcon Sands #6 Falcon Sands #7 I don’t even have examples […]

Now that you’ve hopefully got many games of 2011 under your belts, you have a pretty good idea of the holes on which you score well, but more so, you probably know which holes are giving you fits.  Ever wonder if other players like you are struggling on the same holes? Better yet, wouldn’t it […]

Description: This dynamic set features the Thor irons for greater backspin and roll. Includes the flop wedge for greenside control. Low-loft Driver (8.5 degrees): 310 3 Wood: 275 5 Wood: 250 7 Wood: 200 9 Wood: 190 5 Iron: 160 6 Iron: 150 7 Iron: 140 8 Iron: 125 9 Iron: 100 Gap Wedge: 70 Loft […]

Description: The Rebel set features 5 fairway woods and 4 wedges! Great loft for both long range and short distance shots. Low-loft Driver (8.5 degrees): 310 3 Wood: 275 4 Wood: 260 5 Wood: 250 7 Wood: 200 9 Wood: 190 7 Iron: 140 8 Iron: 125 9 Iron: 100 Pitching Wedge: 80 Gap Wedge: 70 […]

With the introduction of the dynamic distance indicator in Golden Tee Live 2010, players now get to see how differing conditions affect the distance of any particular shot.  The amount of rain in combination with the lie of your ball triggers a formula that calculates the number you see on the distance marker with any […]

Description: The Peregrine hybrid sole creates more distance for midrange shots. The flop wedge offers great control around the greens. Low-loft Driver (8.5 degrees): 310 3 Wood: 275 5 Wood: 250 7 Wood: 200 4 Hybrid: 190 5 Hybrid: 170 6 Hybrid: 160 7 Iron: 140 8 Iron: 125 9 Iron: 100 Gap Wedge: 70 Loft […]

As of the 2012 release, you may have as many as 16 different types of virtual golf balls in your bag.  Now is a good time to take a look at all of them to see what’s right for your game. Golden Tee’s site gives you a nice little graph showing the expected performance of […]

There are three parts to this discussion, but they have been up for debate for years.  Let’s start with spin on putts. PLAYER CLAIM: Applying roll or backspin to putts affects the putt. IT CLAIM: Spin has no effect on putts. Many pros believe that spin absolutely has an affect on the putt.  Some players […]

This one you have to see to believe.  Enjoy! The drive The recovery

It’s happened to all of us — we pay that extra dollar to give Prize Play a shot, shoot a great score of about 5 strokes better than average, but still end up out of luck in 21st place.  Wouldn’t you like a chance to have your handicapped scores pitted against others with a REAL […]

Ready for a hardcore dissection of angles and alignment?  My buddy Jeremy Olson has you covered!  The PDF document below speaks for itself and will almost certainly get you thinking about things you’ve never before considered while playing Golden Tee. Yes, it’s data heavy, but it will certainly be beneficial to those of us still […]

Most of us have a decent handle on distance when shooting a straight B2 shot.  However, what happens to your distance when you try to shoot the same 180-degree shot at an angle?  More than likely, you’re going to lose distance.  Theoretically, you should get the same distance off these shots as straight B2 shots, […]

Some of the toughest shots in this game come when you are right in-between distances with two high-lofted clubs.  Many of us use the Hawks, and most of us dread shots from 80 yards out — this is because the 9-iron sets up for 100 yards and the Sand Wedge sets up for 60 yards. […]

Just a quick fact to file away for you here — it takes 32 turns to complete a full 360-degree rotation of your golfer, so that means that each turn is worth 11.25 degrees.  Now you know!

With experience, most of us become pretty good putters.  We have a handle on how much break to play from different distances, and we don’t often miss putts.  If you’re at this stage, there’s another important hint to learn if you haven’t discovered this already. Let’s say you have a 50-foot putt, Up 5.  You […]