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• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Tue, May 20 2014 7:04 PM

  Hit a drive w/ a 18mph tailwind w 0 spin 85% power and almost went into the creek...

  Does anyone try to drive over the creek with a tailwind regularly?

  Can it be done consistently of only attempt when ball is about to get taken out of play?

   

  I always play to avoid being even close to the creek...

• TNP56 510 Posts

  Tue, May 20 2014 7:25 PM

  I would not try it straight on unless the wind is over 20mph----but if you go to the very far left of the fairway you can do it easy.

  But you have to be very very careful going to the very far left side of the fairway because of the out of bounds so close to that side.

• Yasch 310 Posts

  Tue, May 20 2014 8:15 PM

  You can always shank your drive and get some really lucky bounces

  replay.aspx?ID=badf6a21 cbef 41f5 bd43 a2e1002c1585

  and no, I didn't make the putt for eagle

• lvion 25 Posts

  Tue, May 20 2014 8:58 PM

  I always use my 3 wood on drive with tailwind. I try to leave about a 60 yd distance to hole from there. Many birdies and even a couple of eagles playing that way. 

• alosso 21,069 Posts

  Tue, May 20 2014 10:57 PM

  OOB explained...

   

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Wed, May 21 2014 12:08 AM

  The Swilkan Burn is not a creek it's a burn. We don't have creeks in Scotland.    ;)

• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Wed, May 21 2014 1:31 AM

  PaulTon:

  The Swilkan Burn is not a creek it's a burn. We don't have creeks in Scotland.    ;)

  LMAO and dear I say it, he asks for ice in his whisky...............

• WigerToods2010 8,447 Posts

  Wed, May 21 2014 4:05 AM

  The right side is most def 'doable' too, Fatdan -  Hit this a while back - wouldn't really recommend it though. I think I just happened to miss Mr. Ding to the right and it's caught the brickwork/sprinkler/Icon's wallet. :)

   

  *View #3 shows exactly where the ball initially bounced

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Wed, May 21 2014 9:50 AM

  Ok, thanks...it's so easy to reach the creek/burn/hazard I thought there might be a shot down the left center that would roll up close to the back pin placement for an eagle putt....the other options still leave you a shot from a distance so better off laying up..

  PaulTon:

  The Swilkan Burn is not a creek it's a burn. We don't have creeks in Scotland.    ;)

  Mannnnn, you can't name a body of water a "burn", talk to someone and get that straightened out! LOL Call it a wash, a wetplace, a run off, if not a creek, but a burn I don't get...If you said, "hey fatman, watch out for the burn over there", I would fall in the creek looking for the burnt spot...LOL.

   

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Wed, May 21 2014 11:20 AM

  fatdan:

   

  PaulTon:

  The Swilkan Burn is not a creek it's a burn. We don't have creeks in Scotland.    ;)

  Mannnnn, you can't name a body of water a "burn", talk to someone and get that straightened out! LOL Call it a wash, a wetplace, a run off, if not a creek, but a burn I don't get...If you said, "hey fatman, watch out for the burn over there", I would fall in the creek looking for the burnt spot...LOL.

   

  Cooking bacon while camping  I got splashed with hot fat. Too cool it down I immersed my burn in a burn.  

  It makes perfect sense to us and it's too late to change now, we're beyond help.