Drive with Trouble Along One Side

Status
Not open for further replies.
C

Chris Sturgess

New member
What is the safest/smartest/most effective way to play a hole with trouble along one side. For example let's say there is water all down the right side of the fairway, do you:

Start it over the water and draw it back to the fairway?

Start it safely well left over land and fade it back toward the fairway (and water)?

Just hit a straight shot at the middle or left side of the fairway?

Some other option I didn't mention?
 
W

wayers

New
For me it would depend on the shape of the hole, and any other hazards on the left side. Should also consider your miss - if you are prone to a slice, I wouldn't go with the fade. I try not to ever start the ball over water and work it away from it unless a straight shot will carry it. I think the biggest thing is to tee up on the side of the trouble and hit away from it.

Ben
 
T

tchilds

New
The most common advice one hears is to tee the ball up on the side of the trouble and aim away from it...that way you have alot more fairway to hit to. Obviously in your case you would tee the ball up on the right side of the tee and aim it left. However, I have a few good player friends who have told me to simply tee the ball wherever I want to and hit the shot depending on how the hole bends, etc.
 
B

Brian Manzella

Administrator
Depends.

These days I am just hitting one shot with my driver—left to right—and if I have room, I'll start it over an ocean. By the way, playing #18 at Pebble a week ago, I did just that. Right down the middle.

But, for differnet levels of golfers, and differnent swing problems/issues, how to play away from trouble varies greatly.

In general, you want to start the ball AWAY from trouble, and work it further away.

Of course, that isn't aways possible.

Give me a specific golfer, with a particular ball flight, and a hole describtion, and I'll give you a custom solution.
 
C

Chris Sturgess

New member
Ok here are some specs. The golfer normally plays a straight ball and doesn't prefer a particular curve but could hit a fade or draw if necessary.

Here are a couple hole layouts that are similar with water all down the right side and the tee box skewed over just a little bit to the right of the fairway.


This is a hole at Kiawah Island you may be familiar with, with the tee box being at the top right corner there across the path on the other side of the water. And the drive would end up about just barely past that fairway bunker.
http://www.golfworldmap.com/usa/sou....html#32.61082111182438,-80.04040002822876,17

Click on the 9th hole for this one. The drive would end up around the begining of that section of rough that's in the middle of the fairway. I guess just pretend that the fairway is normal (without rough in it) for the purposes of this.
http://www.asukarsten.com/course_information/photo_gallery/karsten_course_photo_gallery/
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top