Newspapers / The Brunswick Beacon (Shallotte, … / May 26, 1988, edition 1 / Page 58
Part of The Brunswick Beacon (Shallotte, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Page 16?Supplement to The Brunswick B ! 4rs\A/ Te% B B%*r ww 8 W BY WILL COCKRELL Beacon Golf Editor When you play a great golf hole you need more than good golf shots. You need good thinking and sound decision making as well. Great holes offer the golfer ODtions. Riskv ontions. w > ?v - tr Safe options. Chicken options. Remember the guy who won the "Worst Golfer Award" at the TPC in Sawgrass by putting the ball from tee to green over the bridge to the island green on the par 3, 17th hole. That was an ultra-chicken option. When you play a great hole for the first time you often tap in your third putt for a double-whatever and then siana iooKing DacK down the hole toward the tee. You wonder why you didn't notice the other way to play the hole? You could have hit a safety off the tee, layed up away from that water, chipped up and rolled it in for a par. Yeah, it always looks easier from the green. As a matter of fact, it is easier to analyze a golf hole from green to tee. Seeing the holes from the desired landing area and what it offers for subsequent shots gives better insight I on how to play the hole with your par* ticular game. It also lends some obI jectivity to your thinking. On the tee you may be either bouyed or depressed by the score on the prtViuiis nOic i causing a decision you may soon ! regret. I Once I have made a par on a great I \ ( Ruby and Trc invite you to I and lunch j PIPE RESTAUl : i 1 i Located a V GOLF and COUr ,H eacon. June. 1988 3 IUJ I I IC7 hole, I tend to adopt the tactics that earned tne par as standard procedure for all subsequent rounds. My game is making pars and saving pars. I only get birdies on very short holes, or with unconscious approach shots. Occasionally I wiil sink a chip or a cross county putt. It is not often that I stand on the tee of a 198 yard, par 3 and say to myself, "OK. I'll just cut this 3 iron over the left trap and slide it under the hole for an easy uphill birdie." My tactics are more like. "Gimme the 4 wood. You guys keep your eyes on this ball. I'm gonna try to keep my head down." Please keep my golfing limitations in mind as I describe how the best Par 3, Par 4 and Par 5 from the Best 36 should or could be played. Par 3( 17th At Sea Trail This long par 3 earns its "Best" selection by possessing all the qualities that make a par 3 great. 17 has a challenging green, matched in size to the length and trajectory of the approach shot. The size ana design of the green on a par 3 hole sets up the tailoring of the rest of the hnlo IViV The green at Sea Trails' 17th is about 32 yards wide and 22 yards deep. It has several levels and enough undulations to make three putts an imminent possibility. This relatively shallow green tilts toward the tee and undulates from high to V J "&* : 'V';' x ' ' ?'/-v >y Blythe breakfast RS US RANT \ Ian, Rut / Eggs Ber meal a rr fine catei PIPER Bay -^sssj BR ? y sITRY CLUB OLD GEOR Dnci U^J ocdi nui low to high across the back of the green. There are at least eight good pin placements on the green, two of which will challenge the best of golfers. These two pin placements app nn thu fmn enmi.mfttinrlc of fKo i VI4V v>. VIIV vttu UVIIU IUUUIIUJ UW UIV. I rear of the green. Both can be pro- I tected by the two bunkers which protect the approach to the green. ( The left bunker is a large, deep I hazard that will collect any shot that 1 is short of the target and not precise- 1 ly aimed to negotiate the 15-yard ; opening between the bunkers. The < right bunker collects shots that are ] off line right and keeps them from going down a steep embankment into < double trouble. I Tee shots landing left, right or over < this green will leave the golfer in a | variety of untenable positions. The only true spot to bail out on this hole is short of the green. Such a shot will still leave the golfer a tender little ] pitch to this shallow green. But, wait | o uru- ? i J ~e i s a liunuic; Y*iiu ever ueciru ui laying < up on a par 3? Nah. Go for it! If you don't catch the tee shot maybe you j will be lucky enough to roll through i the small opening between the traps. Well, the folks at Sea Trail realize that a lot of shots may well land short. They have 20 yards of closely mown fairway in front of the green to improve the chances of spinning the ball to the pin. The fact that the tees sit a good 10 yards above the green gives the eolfer fair warning of the trmihle that nuiyyCy^ -r I ' gS^acj^SS^S^^*?*1**''1. _ - - 1^? HH^W'^KhHOSI R IMBUUb ly and Troy Blythe and the twins, Ma icdict to French Dip, in the elegant di lemorable occasion with special touc ing of business and social functions. FAKFAST ANn tllNrv ALL GETOWN ROAD (between O I? pr., C5 If I Of U lies below. It is immediately apsarent that you must either hit the *reen or be short. The snot designed :o hit the green must be struck with a long iron and needs a high trajectory in order to hold on the putting sur :ace. Now if that sounds like a tall order, :onsider that about 70 yards off the :ee, a very large tree dominates the right side of the green. If the pin is ocated on the right half of the green, you must fade the ball to get it close mough for a birdie or insure a two 3Utt. All the ingredients and more. If you don't think this is a great hole, I suggest you go play it for yourself. A par on the 17th at Sea Trail feels like a birdie to me. Oyster Bays' Par 4, Second Hole like all great holes this 420 yard par 4 offers several options to the golfer. It is designed as a gentle dogleg right with a long carry over water off the tee. The landing area for the aggressive tee shot is protected by a series of three bunkers and the green is guarded by bunkers short left and over right. The green is a very deep, peanut shaped affair which can vary the approach by as many as three clubs depending on the location of the nin. ? The really long hitting, low handicap golfer will be tempted to cut his drive close to the fairway traps on the right and shorten up the hole to ! L n age and Mary are eager 10 serve you del ning room of Pipers Restaurant. As hes only they know how to do. And I SERVED 7 DAYS 6:30 tBC PERMITS H * i ? >cean isle ana sunset Beach, c mswick I about 400 yards in the process. If he is fUra successful, he will be rewarded with ] a middie iron to the green. This will | prove to be a big advantage in ap- ] || proaching such a large green and j cuuiu wen yieiu me oircue IWO SUCtl gjjjjgM excellent shots deserve. Other good golfers whose drives fl are in the 240 yard range will need | their length just to clear the water from the blue tees and put them in a position in the middle of the fairway for a long iron to the green. Most of them will be quite satisfied with a I par. A middle nandicapper playing 3 from the white tees (365 yards) will need a carry over water of 150 yards \ or so and will be faced with either a j long iron or a fairway wood to the green. These golfers will lengthen the jnfl hole to more like 400 yards by playing the drive well left away from trouble and requiring less carry over water. What they save on the drive they will pay for in a long approach shot to the ^ green, if in fact they choose to go for Although the layup area short of the green narrows as it approaches the putting surface, it is a preferred g| choice of shots to taking a chance of hitting the approach too long. This elongated green sits at a 45 degree angle to the line of the approach. In addition to being protected by two challenging bunkers, there is out of bounds 11 yards right of the green (See HOW TO PLAY, Page 20) I M a IBM Hft ILWr jm m* ** *3^ f _ 8HS^SlS^^ I B^Ja-TE^fc^ ^7. : '4-"aBnBB^VBfiJMnHUSI -r ectable specialties, from usual, they'll make each they're known for their AM UNTIL I >ff Hwy. 904)*579-9373 / ==-?s i
The Brunswick Beacon (Shallotte, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 26, 1988, edition 1
58
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75