Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Didn't Woosie win the Masters blasting it over the bunkers on 18 onto the practice ground or another fairway...?
Always weigh up all the options.
Always weigh up all the options.
Cutting corners
- Thread starter Scouser
- Start date
Mark_G
Challenge Tour Pro
As a newbie I play the wrong fairway by mistake, not deliberately.It seems wrong to me that people would not play the course as it was designed, maybe with a few more years experience my view will change.
Toby_LeRhone
Head Pro
When I started out I would slice the ball off the tee frustratingly often. My course had a long par 4 that ran parallel to another hole, with some very tall trees (and some brutal rough) seperating them. My slice from the elevated tee position would invariably soar over the trees and find the wrong fairway; when this occured I would always take my second shot down the wrong fairway and pitch my 3rd into the green from there (where the trees were thinner). Nobody ever questioned this perfectly legitimate tactic. If it was anything less than legitimate, the R&A would surely introduce a rule making the course OOB, less an area relating to the hole being played.
Scouser
Tour Winner
i have also done this previously my question was more along the lines that you tee off then your partner makes a deliberate attempt to hit another fairway and reaches the green in one less shot than u do!?!?!
Mark_G
Challenge Tour Pro
I used to, (and sometimes still do) slice off the tee as well on to the neighbouring fairway, but my second shot was/is always to get back onto the correct fairway. The challenge for me is to stay on the fairway, if I allowed myself to actually play down the wrong one, it would spoil my fun.
bobmac
Major Champion
That's why courses have internal OOBs, to prevent people doing this and for the safety of those on the other fairway
I hate internal OOB. Bad course design.
If the original layout has been badly planned then it is the duty of the golfer to get from a - the tee to b- the green in as few shots as possible.
If that involves danger to other golfers there should be bells etc putt in place, or/and hazards should be designed to disuade the shorter route.
HuffyHacker
I hate internal OOB. Bad course design.
If the original layout has been badly planned then it is the duty of the golfer to get from a - the tee to b- the green in as few shots as possible.
If that involves danger to other golfers there should be bells etc putt in place, or/and hazards should be designed to disuade the shorter route.
HuffyHacker
I'm with Bob here. Now the internal OOB has beeen removed on the 14th when playing the 15th you do have the option of going down the previous fairway. However you are hitting directly at the oncoming golfers playing their own hole. Not safe by any means. Anyone actually seen to be deliberately aiming that way is normally reported for H&S reasons (we've had too many near misses). No-one objects if you hit a horrid low hook by accident (yes you can usually tell it wasn't deliberate) and even the top guys don't set up to hit deliberate high draws and overcook them onto the 14th.
The problem is a ditch at 280 with only a 10 yard sliver of fairway to go over. The point is the big boys can usually bounce the ditch anyway so it is just as easy to play it the conventional way. Even MR Hawkeye esq. found got it past the ditch in a better ball game recently (shame the 4 iron was right) and downwind and on hard fairways it can be done. Heck even I've managed it so there really is no need to jepordise other golfers.
rickg
Money List Winner
+1
