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Mon, Oct 3 2011 8:43 AM (33 replies)

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SweetiePie

4,925 Posts

Mon, Sep 19 2011 2:26 PM

Doublemochaman:

For those of you who joined after the summer of 2009 try that sometime... play it with starter clubs, from the championship tees. Good luck on carrying the rough on #5.

A course like this is why I think they invented the double gin & tonic.

This is so true. When it first came out, it took a perfect shot just to make the front of a fairway, and greens were impossible to hit. Nevertheless, it taught me to have a wonderful, creative and deadly short game.

Doublemochaman

2,009 Posts

Mon, Sep 19 2011 2:45 PM

Hey Sweetie... and I recall suffering at your hands, via your deadly short game, in a match we once played. I promise, the check is in the mail.

TheAceFactor

2,147 Posts

Mon, Sep 19 2011 3:04 PM

SweetiePie:
This is so true. When it first came out, it took a perfect shot just to make the front of a fairway, and greens were impossible to hit. Nevertheless, it taught me to have a wonderful, creative and deadly short game.

Yes...this is exactly what developed my short game as well....Entire set of pink Tour-Starters. The additional 5 yards was a dream come true back then...Loved those things.

Ace

KANE09

8 Posts

Thu, Sep 22 2011 9:08 AM

Ok i live 20 mins from Bethpage and the 7th hole is a par 5 in real life, in 2002 they played it as a par 4 BUT from 489 In 2009 they were going to use the new tee box and have it play as the longest par 4 in us open history but with all the rain we had they never moved the tee back there.

Milfshake

1,260 Posts

Thu, Sep 22 2011 10:41 AM

Ones Female.

Glas67

117 Posts

Sun, Sep 25 2011 5:25 PM

I was reading this thread earlier and was in agreement with what was said, the 7th is murder. Just played a MP game tho, and holed a 243yd eagle on it lol! Was playing with a Canadian guy called KAABOOOM (or KAAB000M), ask him if you don't believe me.

First and last time i'll ever do it. It didn't even give me an option to replay it :/ Don't suppose WGT can find it for me? lol.

tiffer67

1,764 Posts

Mon, Sep 26 2011 5:20 PM

SweetiePie:

Nevertheless, it taught me to have a wonderful, creative and deadly short game.

Couldn't agree more. Bethpage is the best course to play as a beginner if you want to learn all the shots needed to gain a fantastic short game from 50 yards in....

TarheelsRule

5,563 Posts

Mon, Sep 26 2011 6:44 PM

The USGA much prefers that their championship courses play to a par 70, which tends to eliminate 2 of the par 5 holes, making them long par 4 holes. This can be done easily by moving up to the members tees in many cases and giving you a par 4 that plays around 500 yards. In terms of the 2 at BPB, the first par 5, I think plays to about 515 from the back tees, it isn't a par 4 because it is virtually impossible to reach due to the bunkers and rough that are about 300 out and the high elevation change to the green.

Although #7 is technically longer, 525 from my tees it plays to a slight dogleg and a fairly flat green. I can always reach with a fairway wood or a long iron, on the #5 hole I can very rarely reach with any club and if I hit it over the greenside bunkers I can't stop it on the green and it goes well over into the rough.