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Not a "FAIRWAY" to play W.G.T.

• ALEXcRINN 619 Posts

  Thu, Oct 13 2011 6:31 AM

  Royal St. Georges, a great course but for one problem I have found, so far.On the fifth hole, 2nd shot, after landing nicely on the fairway, goes wild to the right and out of bounds. This has happened to me twice recently and who knows how many times in the past.It is a pain when it happens, double when in a tournament and not fair when you have played a perfectly good second shot. To make matters worse there is the loss of perfectly good and dearly bought callaways to consider. Can you explain why I have to replace balls that I believe you lost for me? Can this problem be corrected or will it continue to plague us? Thanks ALEXcRINN.

• b0geybuster 2,574 Posts

  Thu, Oct 13 2011 1:24 PM

  ALEXcRINN:

  Royal St. Georges, a great course but for one problem I have found, so far.On the fifth hole, 2nd shot, after landing nicely on the fairway, goes wild to the right and out of bounds. This has happened to me twice recently and who knows how many times in the past.It is a pain when it happens, double when in a tournament and not fair when you have played a perfectly good second shot. To make matters worse there is the loss of perfectly good and dearly bought callaways to consider. Can you explain why I have to replace balls that I believe you lost for me? Can this problem be corrected or will it continue to plague us? Thanks ALEXcRINN.

  I have seen this happen when the aimer is to close to the golfers feet.  Trying aiming in reverse view leaving the aimer on the green.   I suspect you move the aimer and it jumps in front of the hill.

  Cheers,

  b0gey

• SgtDoodles 3,112 Posts

  Fri, Oct 14 2011 10:51 AM

  Try aiming for Out of Bounds. I do and I never hit it OB.

• Westview 31 Posts

  Fri, Oct 14 2011 11:43 AM

  SgtDoodles:

  Try aiming for Out of Bounds. I do and I never hit it OB.

  I use the same strategy when putting.  I aim away from the hole, and it goes right in.

• SgtDoodles 3,112 Posts

  Fri, Oct 14 2011 2:18 PM

  Westview:

  SgtDoodles:

  Try aiming for Out of Bounds. I do and I never hit it OB.

  I use the same strategy when putting.  I aim away from the hole, and it goes right in.

  GENIUS! Thank you so much. Now I might finally push on to Leg End.