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Teeing off at Olympic

• borntobesting 9,701 Posts

  Fri, Dec 28 2012 2:39 PM

  DAZZA501:

  KublaConn:

  That is my entire point, this hole consistently requires two fairway shots to reach the green, therefore, leaving just one putt in order to make par.

  Like i said earlier. Your driver doesn't hit far enough. If you gave a real life pro just a 3 iron to tee off with he probably wouldn't reach it in 2.

  Even with shorter clubs it is still a fairly easy par. Our CC held a iron only tourney at Olympic. 3 iron from tee 3 iron to around 80 yards. A 60 degree Cleveland wedge to within 2 feet and an easy 2 foot putt for par.I parred it both times I played it in that tourney. Not every par 4 is an easy birdie hole. If they were it would get boring fast.

  Actually a few of the shorter holes at Olympic are harder to par with shorter clubs because there is no go landing area when hitting shorter shots. 

• mgbirish 4,019 Posts

  Fri, Dec 28 2012 8:30 PM

  MBaggese:

  KublaConn:

   Any hole where you can only reach the green on your second shot 20% of the time is NOT a par four hole, unless someone has changed what the word "par" means.

   

  Short game can be your friend

  ^^^^^x10^^^^^

   

• KublaConn 22 Posts

  Sat, Dec 29 2012 3:56 PM

  mgbirish:

  MBaggese:

  KublaConn:

   Any hole where you can only reach the green on your second shot 20% of the time is NOT a par four hole, unless someone has changed what the word "par" means.

   

  Short game can be your friend

  ^^^^^x10^^^^^

   

   

  If the short game is my friend, then it's my schizophrenic, bi-polar, meth-head, junkie friend that's either trying to steal my television one moment or I don't see hide-nor-hair of them for six months.  

  If you are able to get any consistency out of the short clubs, or you can make them perform according to what the given parameters indicate they should, then good for you.

   

• KublaConn 22 Posts

  Sat, Dec 29 2012 4:11 PM

  DAZZA501:

  KublaConn:

  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.

  Our drivers will go 300yds. Yours won't Kubla. It's as simple as that. Wait until you level up and unlock something with a bit of ooomph!

   

   

  Yes, I understand the limitations of my clubs, all I'm asking is that those clubs, and the course conditions, act as they should.  If I'm sitting 33 feet above the destination point and I'm hitting a 3-wood that is rated at 222 yards and hitting a ball that has added distance, and there is an 8-mile-an-hour wind quartering over my left shoulder, and I ding the hit, the ball should go a good deal further than the 221 yards it ends up going, no?

   

• MBaggese 15,367 Posts

  Sat, Dec 29 2012 5:06 PM

  KublaConn:

  If the short game is my friend, then it's my schizophrenic, bi-polar, meth-head, junkie friend that's either trying to steal my television one moment or I don't see hide-nor-hair of them for six months.  

  Now that's funny, I don't care who ya are!

   

  KublaConn:

  If you are able to get any consistency out of the short clubs, or you can make them perform according to what the given parameters indicate they should, then good for you.

   

  Just looked at your clubs, you have upgrade of everything except your wedges...I thinkI saw you were level 30-soemthing?...wait till level 41/42 and spend a few credits on the Ping 200 credit wedges...they;ll be your friend beyond Legend tier:)

• row2seat2 1,441 Posts

  Sat, Dec 29 2012 5:55 PM

  Amen on the wedges also at your tier a par or all par round is sweet.

• TracyMax 2,361 Posts

  Sat, Dec 29 2012 6:28 PM

  alosso:

  8802:

  Then there is the tee shot.  The hole calls for a power fade, but since you can't fade or draw (a glaring omission), unless you have a left to right wind, you risk driving it through the fairway into the 40-50 rough.

  Excuse me: I can.

  Stopping the meter at or just outside the bars next to the "ding" bar produces the desired shots. It's good for ##1, 5(*), 10 at this course. Add others ad libitum.

  (*) corrected

  Since we can't draw or fade hitting just outside the ding, which I've tried, just produces a shot that goes right from the tee, it doesn't slowly curve. This usually produces a shot in the trees. Am anxious to hear how you hit a fade shot on that hole. Olympic is just a TOUGH course as underscored by the scores in the Open this year.

• alosso 21,070 Posts

  Sat, Dec 29 2012 11:55 PM

  Agreed: Just outside the ding (which is the 4th line on the meter) will produce a fairly straight push or pull.

  But take it one line further, to the 3rd or 5th: Hitting the ding on or outside these lines will result in a nice curved ball. No extra spin, I was told, and I never tried anything else.

  Look at this one on OLY#5 (forward tees). It was aimed to the small tree with hat-like crown behind the fairway. The meter was well outside the 5th line. Look at the starting direction, the curve, the target and the distance with my 280 yds driver!

• KublaConn 22 Posts

  Sun, Dec 30 2012 12:32 AM

  alosso:

  Agreed: Just outside the ding (which is the 4th line on the meter) will produce a fairly straight push or pull.

  But take it one line further, to the 3rd or 5th: Hitting the ding on or outside these lines will result in a nice curved ball. No extra spin, I was told, and I never tried anything else.

  Look at this one on OLY#5 (forward tees). It was aimed to the small tree with hat-like crown behind the fairway. The meter was well outside the 5th line. Look at the starting direction, the curve, the target and the distance with my 280 yds driver!

  I am but a little fledgling, but if I might add, if you work the wind, it can be even more dramatic.  That is, if the wind decides to be what it actually represents itself to be.

   

   

• KublaConn 22 Posts

  Sun, Dec 30 2012 12:41 AM

  borntobesting:

  DAZZA501:

  KublaConn:

  That is my entire point, this hole consistently requires two fairway shots to reach the green, therefore, leaving just one putt in order to make par.

  Like i said earlier. Your driver doesn't hit far enough. If you gave a real life pro just a 3 iron to tee off with he probably wouldn't reach it in 2.

  Even with shorter clubs it is still a fairly easy par. Our CC held a iron only tourney at Olympic. 3 iron from tee 3 iron to around 80 yards. A 60 degree Cleveland wedge to within 2 feet and an easy 2 foot putt for par.I parred it both times I played it in that tourney. Not every par 4 is an easy birdie hole. If they were it would get boring fast.

  Actually a few of the shorter holes at Olympic are harder to par with shorter clubs because there is no go landing area when hitting shorter shots. 

  Oh, hoary-headed elder one, if I might be so presumptuous as to believe that,  I, such a unwashed newb might have reason to believe he has a right to rise to such hubris as to remind such a learned one as yourself that such a pronouncement as "fairly easy par" is not an objective term, but rather an inherently subjective term.