TheAceFactor:St. Andrew's # 7 is quite playable with the short driver , but he'll have to be able to strike his long irons. Play the fairway to the left <--- , leaves a longer approach , but he'll find a much nicer lie.
When I first stated playing the game, I used to play the hole a bit differently. I would hit my drive as usual and hope for the best. Obviously, I would rarely make it to the fairway. For my second shot, I would just hit the ball forward about 50 or 60 yards to get it into the fairway. That left me a fairly short approach with a wedge of some type.
Clearly, that took birdie out of the equation. But it did a few things for me. First, it taught me the importance of course management and how to manage one's scoring expectations for a hole. And second, it helped me develop my wedge game.
While the results weren't remarkable (I parred the hole no more than half the time), it was a great learning experience.