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Tips for Eagle in par 4.

• CanineSupervisor 1,882 Posts

  Fri, Jan 24 2014 12:24 AM

  I have to agree with Mainz and lonniescott.

  I have never planned an Eagle shot either. But, I read this thread before this round and voilà !, here is one, right off the get go.

  Do me a favor OP, post more of this type of thread so I can read them before I tee off.

  lol.

• alberich35 858 Posts

  Fri, Jan 24 2014 12:55 AM

  The only tip i have : play courses that offer good opportunities to reach the green on the first shot or very close the flag on fairway as Merion B9 & St Andrew B9.
  

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Sat, Jan 25 2014 11:55 AM

  Drive the green trying for an albatross (hole in one), and if you don't hole the drive, 1 putt.

  http://www.wgt.com/replay.aspx?ID=2698a901-8414-45a5-b501-a207013e7e9f

• borntobesting 9,707 Posts

  Thu, Jan 30 2014 6:09 AM

  Tyrones:

  Put the ball in the cup on your 2nd shot. That's all I can offer. Good luck.

  like this

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Thu, Jan 30 2014 10:10 AM

  kilbraur:

  Play short of pin with forward spin. It are more like go in rolling up to hole.

  ^^^This. Play up to the hole using top spin and look closely at the last 10-20 feet using the putting reverse view. Plan it like a putt from the landing.

• zagraniczniak 1,984 Posts

  Thu, Jan 30 2014 11:01 AM

  YankeeJim:

  kilbraur:

  Play short of pin with forward spin. It are more like go in rolling up to hole.

  ^^^This. Play up to the hole using top spin and look closely at the last 10-20 feet using the putting reverse view. Plan it like a putt from the landing.

  With fancy wedges, backing it up toward the hole can also work.

  Most birdie planning in this game is about getting the ball to stop near the hole, and with high-spin equipment you can get the ball to stop cold. But if the ball is going to have a chance of going in the hole, it should probably keep moving a bit. Every couple of inches it rolls out along the surface, if it is not rolling very fast, is a chance for rolling it over and into the hole. An approach shot that stops dead has just one chance of going in.

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Thu, Jan 30 2014 11:06 AM

  zagraniczniak:

  With fancy wedges, backing it up toward the hole can also work

  Agree but you bring so many other factors into play doing it this way that it has to be an absolutely perfect shot, including deviation, which basically makes it a guess. Given that backups generally follow the wind direction you really have to know what to do trying this.

• Dougie4042 4,410 Posts

  Thu, Jan 30 2014 11:10 AM

  zagraniczniak:

  But if the ball is going to have a chance of going in the hole, it should probably keep moving a bit. Every couple of inches it rolls out along the surface, if it is not rolling very fast, is a chance for rolling it over and into the hole. An approach shot that stops dead has just one chance of going in.

  I agree 100%!

• Dougie4042 4,410 Posts

  Thu, Jan 30 2014 11:18 AM

  borntobesting:

  Tyrones:

  Put the ball in the cup on your 2nd shot. That's all I can offer. Good luck.

  like this

  No, no, no!  Like this!  ;)

• 1,148 Posts

  Thu, Jan 30 2014 12:56 PM

  I find if you can ding wedges there is many chances