HOW REALISTIC.....

[time_vans]

is tiger's well documented drive on to the green over the trees at a dog leg par 4 for us ordinary joe's. take away the cameras and the crowd... you tee up and bang let rip.....ball sails over the trees and you proudly walk round to the green but cant find your ball amywhere. if you are supposed to re tee how nany times could/should this be attempted before you get penalised for slow play??

 

[USER1999]

Just give it a go, and if you don't find it, scratch the card. Obviously in medal, you have to be pretty sure it's on, as in driving well, feeling good. Also helps to be a low handicap golfer who has played the course/hole before. Like all golf, it's risk versus reward.

We have a similar situation on our 12th on the winter card. Those that can do it have a go, those that can't don't. I always have a crack, but if I hear timber have to reload a provisional.

 

[time_vans]

as a newcomer forgive my ignorance but what does'scratch the card' mean also if your provisional doesn't make it and you hear timber again what happens next? can you hitmore than one provisional ?

 

[John_Findlay]

You can hit as many provisional balls as you want, Tim, but do bear in mind your pace of play (as well as the likeliehood of finding any of the balls and the effect on your score of not finding many of them).

At the end of the day use your common sense. I was playing in a 5 day Open a few years back, going along ok, but had to hit 4 tee shots off the 13th tee after thinking I had lost the first shot and 2 provisionals. Luckily found the first provisional but it looked dodgy for a minute or two.

Scratching your card means not completing a hole and therefore your round (a No Return or NR). It's not as bad as all that. We've all had to do it. Your handicap would only go up 0.1

 

[def]

with a handicap bang on 20 i leave those shots to the big boys

 

[Toad]

Have one shot at getting over if it fails then play safe with the provisional and make sure it's in play.

Don't see the point of sending ball after ball into the trees m8.

 

[birdieman]

Have you lot not seen Tin Cup - where's the glory in laying up? - gotta let the big dog bite!...then bite again...and again...

 

[brendy]

two 440 yd par 4's at our course where you can take on the corner, OOB on the wrong side too, one is a fairly safe shortcut as long as you dont slice it, the other requires a very accurate draw over the corner as its on the boundary of the course.

 

[madandra]

You gotta go for it. Smell the fear !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Atticus_Finch]

Always ask yourself this...
What would Seve do?

 

[Dormie]

Seve would put his first ball OB; then hole his second...........
My kind of golf; you have to go for it if you have a chance of making it (unless protecting a score near the end of a medal, then i'll turn into Faldo and take an iron for par)!