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Teeing off at Olympic

• borntobesting 9,701 Posts

  Sun, Dec 23 2012 4:16 AM

  alosso:

  Stopping the meter at or just outside the bars next to the "ding" bar produces the desired shots. It's good for ##1, 6, 10 at this course. Add others ad libitum.

  There is no need to play the simulated fade on this shot as the ball will easily clear the trees there so just aim as close to the tree line as you can and try to ding the shot. The ball will end up in the middle of the fairway. The only time I miss the fairway is if I click way too soon and get a huge pull.

• KublaConn 22 Posts

  Sun, Dec 23 2012 1:11 PM

  borntobesting:

  I consider myself to be average at best but i hit this green in 2 about 90% of the time. 

   

  I must be well below average, then, because it is safe to say that my experience with this hole has been just about the opposite of yours.

   

• Oldbayrunner 1,774 Posts

  Mon, Dec 24 2012 6:35 PM

  KublaConn:

  #1 @ Olympic is just straight-up, crazy stupid.

  A 525-yard par 4?  With a second shot that's 27-33 feet above the hole, but will give you the exact distance of your club, sometimes even when there's a decent tail wind?  Yeah, that's certainly for real.

  #1 at Olympic Plays 500 yds from the lower tier red tees, 512 yds from your pro, tp tier white tees, 525 yds from the master, TM tees & 533 yds for Legend , TL tees.

  #2 The second shot is not 27 to 33 yds above but 27 -33 yds below so it plays shorter not longer.

  Can it be reached in two. Depends on what tees your playing from with what equipment and what winds you have to deal with. Even for us legends with the top R11's most of the time it can be reached but with certain winds, it isn't going to happen from the Champ tees.  A Pro or TP from the whites with upper tier equipment hitting from the white tees it's a piece of cake. Same with Masters and TM's with the same type gear.

• TeeWade 1,216 Posts

  Mon, Dec 24 2012 8:36 PM

  Don't worry so much about one hole bud. You'll grow into it just like the rest of us did.  :)

  I think there a couple other holes out there in WGT land that still pose that same problem with me and I'm hitting with top driver. Its just accepted and I play for par and on to the next hole. Especially when the headwind is a blowing.

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Wed, Dec 26 2012 9:46 AM

  Olympic is set up in a US Open course configuration

  Consequently the degree of difficulty is maxed out.

   

• TarheelsRule 5,564 Posts

  Wed, Dec 26 2012 10:25 AM

  I guess my comment is what is wrong with a difficult par four.  I think having holes that are tough is what the game is all about.  We don't want every hole like the first at Kiawah where you have a wide fairway, straight away drive and an approach shot with a wedge making biride more common than par for good players.

  There are a number of tough holes at Olympic, some at RSG, even 17 at STA is over 500 yards with a horrid angle.  BPB has a par four over 500 yards.  This isn't real golf, with an R11 driver you can hit the ball 295 to 310 with no wind.  That leaves you an approach shot of around 200 yards, a four iron.

  In real golf I hit it about 260 off the tee.  My four iron goes about 180.  So playing a par four at 400 yards on WGT is about like playing a 440 yard par four at your home course, which for me is tough.  If you don't like tough holes, then play from the ladies tees in practice mode.

• KublaConn 22 Posts

  Thu, Dec 27 2012 12:48 AM

  Oldbayrunner:

  #1 at Olympic Plays 500 yds from the lower tier red tees, 512 yds from your pro, tp tier white tees, 525 yds from the master, TM tees & 533 yds for Legend , TL tees.

  #2 The second shot is not 27 to 33 yds above but 27 -33 yds below so it plays shorter not longer.

  Can it be reached in two. Depends on what tees your playing from with what equipment and what winds you have to deal with. Even for us legends with the top R11's most of the time it can be reached but with certain winds, it isn't going to happen from the Champ tees.  A Pro or TP from the whites with upper tier equipment hitting from the white tees it's a piece of cake. Same with Masters and TM's with the same type gear.

  If I play the Korbel Tourney, it's Oly, and I'm playing from the 525 tee, if I play the December Olympic Tourney, I'm playing from the 512 tee.  Don't know why there's a difference, but it happens.

  As for the second shot, the elevation indicator tells you where the destination point lies in relation to the current placement of your ball, and the indicator tells me that my destination point is 27-33 feet BELOW the current placement of my ball.  I admit, I made the mistake of typing "yards" instead of "feet', but my original statement is true; on your second shot your ball is supposed to be 27-33 feet ABOVE the landing point, meaning it should travel LONGER.

   

   

   

• KublaConn 22 Posts

  Thu, Dec 27 2012 12:59 AM

  Do you understand what the word "par" means?  Do you know how that designation is normally determined?  If a course administrator decides to set the difficulty level of a hole by shaving a stroke off of par for the hole, they are not merely being extremely lazy, but they are missing the entire meaning of "par" and what makes up the difficulty level of golf.  

  A par four hole is a a par four hole because all of the natural factors of the hole will cause MOST golfers to need that many strokes to put the hole in the cup.  If you have a hole where MOST of the golfers will need five strokes to put the hole in the cup, and you decide to raise the difficulty level of the hole by lowering the par to four, you are being a lazy, unimaginative course administrator (to put it delicately).

   

• alosso 21,070 Posts

  Thu, Dec 27 2012 7:34 AM

  Hmm - no use for these three shots?

  And please don't forget there are ppl restricted to forward tees - as a TM I hit the left rough on #1 frequently, and #5 (not 6) became awful with sidewind from the right.