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Fescue Me

• frisco8834 33 Posts

  Thu, Nov 20 2014 2:43 PM

  If you are playing St Andrews, you can not help but end up in the fescue. Fescue for those unfamilar with it is the worst form of rough. Impossible to hit out of without using punch shot. Hitting distances are impossible to judge beyond 30-40% fescue. It ruins your hole. It ruins your round. It ruins your St Andrews experience.

  I find myself playing St Andrews a lot because the forgiving fairways and huge greens make it relatively easy to shoot under par. Unless you tango in the fescue then all bets are off.

  I find that drives that hook slightly to the left on #9 and #10, two straight, short birdie holes, end up in the fescue. Other holes have vast amounts of fescue lurking just off the fairways. Straight drives and not trying to overdrive fairways is the key. Avoid the fescue!

• adaputter 1,954 Posts

  Thu, Nov 20 2014 5:41 PM

  not to sound underming  are you saying play or dont ply st andys

• mara43 1,674 Posts

  Fri, Nov 21 2014 3:00 AM

  frisco8834:

  Hitting distances are impossible to judge beyond 30-40% fescue

  practice the shot repeatedly with a starter ball and you will find the correct club to hit & distance that will be achieved......

  ...the only way out, as in real golf, if you end in that stuff is usually a punched wedge (try 9-7 punched & see what happens...) out onto the nearest part of the fairway and learn to fine tune your drives & iron shots so you reduce the amount of times you go in the fescue....

  happy hitting...

  :-)

• donsprintr 2,063 Posts

  Sun, Nov 23 2014 2:50 PM

  While fescue and St. Andrews are in the conversation, will we be having an Open Championship on St. Andy's next year Icon, or Shoe, or Typhoon .... or ... 

   

  anyone?

• derekortt 669 Posts

  Sat, Dec 13 2014 4:20 AM

  If you end up in the fescue often at St Andrews, you are not playing very well. You can parallel park an aircraft carrier on those fairways!

• 2DAMFLASHY 1,141 Posts

  Sat, Dec 13 2014 5:33 AM

  

  umm.. aim.. farther away..from the fescue.... ^^^  thats for the ghost putter..

   

  peace... :)_~~

• NorCalMega 179 Posts

  Sun, Dec 21 2014 11:47 PM

  derekortt:

  If you end up in the fescue often at St Andrews, you are not playing very well. You can parallel park an aircraft carrier on those fairways!

  Unless you like to thread the needle on those holes where it necks down, sure you can lay-up short of it but there's no challenge in that....

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Mon, Dec 22 2014 4:04 AM

  NorCalMega:

  Unless you like to thread the needle on those holes where it necks down, sure you can lay-up short of it but there's no challenge in that....

   

       

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Mon, Dec 22 2014 8:16 AM

  donsprintr:

  While fescue and St. Andrews are in the conversation, will we be having an Open Championship on St. Andy's next year Icon, or Shoe, or Typhoon .... or ... 

   

  anyone?

  " I heard they were over there, but here ? I didn't hear"

  Hi Don ;-}

• derekortt 669 Posts

  Tue, Dec 23 2014 2:49 AM

  NorCalMega:

  derekortt:

  If you end up in the fescue often at St Andrews, you are not playing very well. You can parallel park an aircraft carrier on those fairways!

  Unless you like to thread the needle on those holes where it necks down, sure you can lay-up short of it but there's no challenge in that....

   

  Even if you do thread the needle, there is still no excuse for being in the fescue. The fairways are still plenty wide, and the first cut is also very wide