Breaking Down Ballyhack Hole #6
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An average 7W off the tee should leave me a fairly stock swing on a 58 into the green. I should make bogey or better.
I was no bueno, @BuffaloPlunger was up second and also went for it but went in the s**t too.
@JB looks at BuffaloPlunger and is like, why didn't you play the safe shot.
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Is there a safe shot
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I guess I should have worded it, why didn't you aim for that big landing zone off to the right.Is there a safe shot
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lmao that was a funny exchange
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My decision there will haunt me for eternity…..you can make up a stroke against the competition with just a par there. Birdie mentality can get you in trouble
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It's one of those shots you just die inside when it goes bad, because it's so damn beautiful and you just want do it justice.I guess I should have worded it, why didn't you aim for that big landing zone off to the right.
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It really gets you because it looks so gettable from the tee box but in reality you’re walking a fine line
Depends on tees, format, and situation. At 280ish it plays about 3 clubs less. I drove it through the green or on the fringe after my shamble partner was safe. During the competition round I think I bogeyed. Playing my own ball I’m probably playing safe with a hybrid and hoping I walk out with par.
No fear! Driver on the line to the pin!!!!
With his new driver, he'd probably carry the green.
This is another hole I didn't play particularly well. Definitely a decision point off the tee for some players. While the green itself doesn't provide too severe of a challenge, there just isn't much of anywhere I saw that was a safe miss if you went for it. Short was definitely a problem, there wasn't really much bailout room long or left, so it only really left short right. If memory serves, I saw four attempts at going for the green, and no one hit it. The safer play, and what I tried to do unsuccessfully both days was to lay one up on a line between the cart path up the hill and the bunker to the right of it. That leaves you in the wider part of the fairway theoretically with a 100 yards or so in. If you play in from the fairway, the green is decently deep from that angle and the approach is pretty flat and straight forward.
It is a nice risk/reward if you have the length, but I personally felt hearing those that went for it that the yardages the caddies were giving from laser adjusted played a bit longer than what they thought.
We played the Black tee here at 334 yards on the card, but I think this one must have played up also...elevation adjusted, I remember the number being given as 265-270ish
It is a nice risk/reward if you have the length, but I personally felt hearing those that went for it that the yardages the caddies were giving from laser adjusted played a bit longer than what they thought.
We played the Black tee here at 334 yards on the card, but I think this one must have played up also...elevation adjusted, I remember the number being given as 265-270ish
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While I might get crazy and take a shot at the green, most likely I make a safe play to the fairway with something less then driver. Probably a 5i maybe a 4I. Either way from there I should have no issues hitting the green and managing par.
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@adwillingham I must say, I love that you are jumping back into these hole previews with your recent experience and how you played these.
Thanks @ddec felt like the right place to do it, particularly given the quick turnaround to the next set of THPers attacking Ballyhack
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I'm definitley enjoying it.