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• saltiresfan 2,266 Posts

  Wed, Jan 30 2013 2:50 AM

  Putting is where you pick up the shots. With BPB havng almost flat greens you can get away with approach shots inside 15 foot rather than 5 foot. At Kiawah and Oakmont you need to get really close or putt really well.

  Kiawah is still my favourite course tee to green but the false breaks and lack of camera angles can ruin a round quickly.

• lencraddy 1,927 Posts

  Wed, Jan 30 2013 3:56 AM

  Talking about K I  ocean course.

  just tried to play around in a CC tourny on there,,

  Hole 3  slightly off the fairway on the right after 1 st shot,, played second shot,,,straight,,and ball went straight into the weeds on right,,lost ball

  next shot I decided to lay up  hit ball straight,,the ball went straight into weeds in exactly the same place,,lost ball,,

  next shot I decided to play even shorter and just chip onto fairway,,same result as before,

  3 brand new balls lost,,chance in tourny lost....withdrew from Tourny,, Have never had that sort of thing happen before,

  I went to St A`s and shot two 5 under par nine holes back to back.

  thats my rant over,, St Andrews for me thank you 

  Len

• SafariMan62 222 Posts

  Wed, Jan 30 2013 4:24 AM

  Agassi1991:

  Hi

  Funny how things can change. When I started this computer game back in 2011

  I found Kiawah the most easy course to play.Today I find the course very hard with a lot of tricky puts.

  Agassi1991

  .....And yet, i still see many, many 50's being posted from players on this course. Most mortals, like myself would be thrilled to come close to a 50 once in our computer life on this course....

• jaderoks 571 Posts

  Wed, Jan 30 2013 4:57 AM

  tiffer67:

  What has made the course harder is the additional new pins. The green immediately round many of the new pins have some wicked breaks,

  This is exactly what made it harder for me.

• chrisironsbones 3,524 Posts

  Wed, Jan 30 2013 6:48 AM

  The only thing that makes Kiawah  difficult are the greens.  The only excuse for them Is that they were the first course wgt made, so I'll give them some slack, but It wont make me feel less frustrated when playing ready go earlier and -6 after 6 holes, then Kiawah greens halt round DEAD.   Lets not forget the DIAGONAL putts you get on 1 or 2 holes which GUARANTEE YOU PAR due to impossible to read for birdie.  3 birdie putts fly out the window due to the  DIAGONAL PUTTS!. And who ever made the putting view on new #15 need to sit on the naughty step next course mapping

  Best thing to do on Kiawah is use chip view because similar to Cabo & whistler, it gives you a more accurate break

• bluzgolf 1,076 Posts

  Wed, Jan 30 2013 10:10 AM

  chrisironsbones:

  (snip)

  Best thing to do on Kiawah is use chip view because similar to Cabo & whistler, it gives you a more accurate break

  Good tip, thanks!

   

• bennyhotnuts 157 Posts

  Thu, Jan 31 2013 2:40 AM

  Edit

  Having actually bothered to read the thread properly now, I see we are talking from a legend tee perspective, I suppose I have that to look forward to, will take your word for it, was preaching about how good I am at Kiawah, seems a little stupid, so removed it now :)

• JaLaBar 1,254 Posts

  Fri, Feb 1 2013 9:22 AM

  I am convinced, and have been for some time, that Kiawah's greens were mapped by a drunken baboon on LSD.  Or by someone incompetent who should have been canned immediately afterwards.

• bubbadork 984 Posts

  Fri, Feb 1 2013 10:37 AM

  I'm guessing that the original pin placements are real and the new placements were just ginned up by WGT.

  There's no rule in golf that governs the placement of the pins, but there are unwritten guides by the PGA. Putts should be reasonable to make when close. The putt should not be subject to extreme breaks within 3 feet, and preferable 10 feet, of the cup. A close putt that accelerates after the stroke is rarely (if ever) seen in real life golf.

• DAZZA501 5,972 Posts

  Fri, Feb 1 2013 10:55 AM

  I love playing Kiawah for the simple reason that a 60/61 can be a good round in a RG and maybe make a small profit. I think i'd actually enjoy the game more if all the greens we're like that. Oakmont and Olympic are tough because of the greens and most of the scores are more true to life.

  I really hope that future courses here are made tougher than the one's we have at the moment. It seems nowadays that making a par on a hole is considered a mistake and i'd much more prefer it if making a birdie or even an eagle was a good feeling again instead of just being the expected norm.