Take a high-teed 3-wood straight over the snow mound on the left, aiming to land in the sliver of fairway heading down.  If you’re on point, you’ll roll on down to safety for your approach.  Here’s a hole-out after a mammoth drive. If you do head right or try a cut shot that catches the […]

With a great tee box and strong tailwind, you may be able to high-tee this one to the green! Otherwise, just lay up a ways short of the icy divide to give yourself a 7-wood or 9-wood loft shot up the hill on your approach.  Here’s an example hole-out. VIDEO DEMO

It’s all about distance control here — you’ll be shooting straight at this green with backspin or bite.  Here’s a great 4-wood dunk to a front pin, and here’s a perfect 3-wood hole-out to a back pin. VIDEO DEMO

You’ll always be aiming out left for the green patch in the mountains.  It’s a bit uphill, so you’ll need a little extra loft and distance — something like a high-teed 3-wood may work well.  If you are a bit short, though, you can often bounce up the ice and onto the patch, so aim […]

Similar to hole #3 but a different distance.  Again, it’s a ways downhill, so compensate a bit extra for the elevation and wind.  Here’s an example hole-out. VIDEO DEMO

The safest play is to the layup patch out to the right.  It’s usually a 4-5-wood to get there, almost always high-teed for extra elevation and distance.  There’s some snow short, so you absolutely must carry it there — bank off the ice on the back if you need to.  That should leave you with […]

It’s a ways downhill, so compensate a bit extra for the elevation and wind.  Here’s an example hole-out. VIDEO DEMO

With a great tee box and wind, you can get within chipping distance off the tee here, so keep that in mind for a better chance of a hole-out!  A C3 from the front left of the box is ideal. You can also ram a medium-teed driver with roll straight ahead and hope to catch […]

Enjoy one of the few flat holes on this course!  Lay up anywhere and bring it in for birdie.  Here’s an example hole-out. VIDEO DEMO

EXAMPLE HOLE-OUT

Always look out left, because if you can use a great wind/tee to blast a drive out that way, you could have an open approach shot into this green.  Here’s a hole-out from there.  Here’s another one with the 3-wood.  This one didn’t get out far enough but there was a gap in the trees […]

From the back-right box, there are several options.  Up and around is the safest play because you take the trees out of play.  However, there are gaps there that allow you to go at the green with the right loft and distance — for instance, a low-teed 4-wood works well from the left side of […]

This hole is drivable under optimal conditions — check out this big C3 around the right side that deflected off the rock onto the green!  And this one hopped the sand and nearly buried in the hole. Otherwise, the trees don’t pose much of an issue cutting around to the second fairway off the tee […]

There are a couple ways to get close to this green sometimes.  The natural instinct is to high tee a driver and blast away, but there’s also a ramp that you can catch to propel a straight low-teed driver 400+ yards towards the green.  Give it a try sometime! Otherwise, lay up short of the […]

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 […]

From the front box, you may be able to carry a big C3 high-teed driver around and onto the green — this one came pretty close!  This one did carry through the sand and roll up onto the green for an eagle putt! Just lay up along the left side of the fairway in the […]

From the left box, you can either punch a low-teed 1-iron or 2-hybrid through the tree gaps right at the green (more risky), or you can take the shot around the left side and curve it back into the green (less risky) — here’s a great 2-hybrid ace to a back pin.  With an out wind, […]

This is a really tough eagle that forces you to pull off a couple great shots to find the green.  Off the tee, very rarely you can find a setup from the back box with a big tailwind where you can play an A1 out to the left and cut out to the second fairway. […]

With the Hawks driver, you can sometimes cut a drive around these trees and get close to, if not on, this green!  The high-teed A1 drive should get over the top corner of the trees to allow a shot at this.  Here’s an ace with the Streaks.  Here’s another one that found the cup for […]

Lay up along the left side of the fairway to give yourself the best approach at this green — here’s an example hole-out.  This 3-wood cut through the trees to fight the wind into a left pin! Check out this driver dunk that missed the branches on the approach! And then there’s this unbelievable shot […]

There are some setups where you can drive this green, or at least the sand for a chip.  This big A1 driver hopped the sand and almost found the hole!  But this huge A1 drive got the hops it needed to bury in a back pin! Otherwise, you can usually cut around the left side […]

With a good wind and tee, you can carry the hill and drive this green, so check out the setup before laying up in the fairway.  This big C3 driver was oh-so-close to dropping!  But this A1 carried the sand and caught a back cup — amazing!  Finally, this high-teed driver carried the sand straight […]

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 […]

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 […]

No reason not to just lay up at the end of the first fairway and bring it in from there — here’s an example driver hole-out. However, here’s a 9-wood hole-out from the second fairway.  If you lose one off the left edge, though, you may get to check out a sweet sand castle! VIDEO […]

In rare cases, this green can be driven with a huge C3 drive from the front-right of the box…check out this incredible ace! Otherwise, just pick a fat part in the fairway and tee off with backspin to hold this spot.  Don’t go too far or the tall grass will inhibit your approach.  The key […]

In this article, I’ll talk about situations where the pin is on the side of the green and the wind is blowing away from the flag.  A safe play here can be to thumb the ball out to the side and let the wind take the ball back towards the center of the green, but […]

Shotties.  Greaties.  Whatever you call them, they are your reward for sticking one close, and they are the tiebreaker in those live contests.  You probably have a rough idea how they are calculated, but we’re going to break it down into nauseating detail for you. Hole-outs are easiest to understand.  Any hole out of 25 […]

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 […]

If you are playing the Hawks, you can actually cut a high-teed driver through this forest, hope to miss bark and catch leaves — if so, you’ll find the green!  Just rotate once left of alignment with the green and play a full A to 1.5 smooth high-teed driver…practice a few times to get it […]