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Here’s an example ace to a front pin. VIDEO DEMO
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 […]
Here’s a driver ace from the back-right tee box. This 3-wood cut through the trees straight to a back-right pin. And this 3-wood aced a back-left pin. This high-teed 4-wood played a huge curve around and perfectly into a front-left pin. With a front pin, it’s often nice to play the hop off the rough […]
Most of the time you can blast a drive ahead to the left fairway, getting far enough to leave an open approach shot. Here’s a hole-out from there. Another option is blasting ahead to the rough area to the right, also leaving an open approach. There are a few rocks and things that pose a […]
Here’s an example ace to a right pin. VIDEO DEMO
Your tee shot here can depend on your confidence in your accuracy with C3 shots. It’s easy to find the sand, and that will eliminate any chance at eagle. On one hand, it may be best to blast it past all the sand as far down the fairway as you can, but of course the […]
You can usually take aim right at this green and play a B1 swerve shot into the green. This 5-wood found the hole after a nice hop off the front rough. Here’s a perfectly-played 3-wood ace. Here’s a nice aggressive 4-wood into a back pin! VIDEO DEMO
Just play out to the second fairway past the sand to give yourself an open approach shot into this green. Here’s a nice 5-wood hole-out to a right pin. VIDEO DEMO
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 […]
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 […]
Here’s an example 9-wood ace. This 5-wood found a back pin. VIDEO DEMO
Here you can either take aim at the green and float a wood out to the right with a B3-type shot, or you can rotate right once and take more of an angle into this green — check out this fantastic 6-wood ace. VIDEO DEMO
You can’t get there in two hitting out to the right, so you’ll be playing a small curve around to the left, short of the water, for one of three different types of approach shots. Actually, there is a layup spot ahead in the rough that can give you an open look at a right […]
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 […]
Short holes like this can be challenging because you’ll often have a gap in your clubs and need to get creative. Here’s a gap wedge that carried into a back pin, and here’s another one with the sand wedge. Big headwinds can make this hole tough and make you consider clubbing up to hit a […]
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 […]
For years, I hadn’t been entirely sure how Golden Tee calculates a player’s handicap that is shown in the upper right when starting a new game, and also in relation to your handicap score shown after each hole played. Most theories pointed to some formula calculated by the average of your best 10 of your […]
A short while ago, I had an amazing cycle going. It started with a -24 on Coconut, followed by a -24 on Jackrabbit. Then I shot GT Par -26 on Bear, followed by a -25 on Cape Haven. At this point I’m -99 after only 4 games! My previous high cycle had been -117, so […]
If you’ve read up on some of my articles discussing the anatomy of the trackball (like this one), then you know that you can sometimes run into issues shooting forwards towards 3. Hitting a “spinny” C3 certainly helps off the tee, and using thumbs for putting out to 3 can help when on the green. […]
Many new and amateur players still lose a lot of strokes on hard left-breaking putts, especially right-handed palm putters. I used to be the same way, and it really got in my head. If I had a 40-foot left 9 putt, I was pessimistic before I even attempted it, because I knew I’d miss it […]
It’s here! After years of playing offline recording scores only tracked on your home machine (and then losing those scores when you want to upgrade), Golden Tee has introduced online play for home units! During April and May 2013, I’ve explored and enjoyed the luxury of having my games saved against my Golden Tee account, […]
I have been ecstatic with the online play offering in the first month it’s been available. So what makes it so much more fun? To me, it’s that every game counts. I’ve always been a numbers guy, so I love accumulating statistics with each game played. Shooting for new personal bests has a new excitement […]
CASUAL: Casual Play allows you to start a game quickly without swiping a card or tracking statistics. The Home Edition lets you adjust the difficulty of Casual Play from 1-5. On level 1, you get all the front tee boxes, not much wind, and lesser-sloped greens. On level 5, you’ll see different tee boxes (more […]
My game is in my basement, and my home computer network (router and modem) are upstairs. For me, the best option was to configure a wireless ethernet bridge to get my Golden Tee home edition online. There are simpler versions available, but I went to Radio Shack and found a NETGEAR Universal Dual Band WiFi […]
This process starts the same as any other software update — details of that process can be found here. However, with this special update, there are two additional steps. After the software upgrade, you’ll install a card reader. Technically, you can function without a card reader and play online using your Lost Card ID, but […]
I’ve gone through two upgrades since obtaining the Golden Tee 2012 Home Edition, and both have been simple, painless, and exciting! Here’s what to expect from the standard yearly software update: You’ll receive a dual in-line memory module (DIMM) to upgrade your memory to 1GB, but if the serial number of your machine is above […]
