OK you all know that long hole w/ the water strip in the middle.
My notes remind me that on the approach if you have a crosswind from right to left (sometime vice versa, etc. etc.) you adjust your aim, etc., and then just as many have done, you hit late and it goes OOB on the right. Lost ball. OK I've learned that that lesson a couple of times.
Or you hit an approach with a 3W and she goes sailing by the pin into the rough beyond the hole. OK I've learned about that one. Maybe roll it up or something.
BUT here's the new challenge I'm having. Say you have frontwind and all the club and high distance balls only take you to just in front of the green, either side. Now you have to attack the pin, and you don't have to worry about sailing past because you're using a high loft club or wedge, etc.
But
there's that little hill before the hole. Now you try the full shot, the pitch, even a flop for good measure, but more often than not I'm seeing that silly pattern. The ball is always short and it rolls back down the hill. (I'm getting good at hitting that 24 footer!) but what's the deal? -
If I miss the ding by a tad hitting to the pin at, say 32 yards away, using a Cleve. at 40 and it goes 29 and rolls back! OK I'll try a punch...oops, I can't get close to the ding on a punch, weird. Anyone use a punch on that one? What kind of yardage & spin if you do?
OK the flop...wow, my long shots on the flop usually go too far, this one hit and rolled back. Maybe it was a nightmare.
OK a pitch...not too hard now..oops not enough BS on the Nike 74?? She rolls past..Try less power and adjust the BS most likely. But am I getting warm? What works for you?
LONG STORY SHORT (too late!) what do you use in that situation?
The full, the pitch, the punch, a flop?
How much spin? Same distance or a tad more? What club what ball?
Thanks, all.