Because it's the first shot of the day with no warm-up available (currently), there's generally a solid wind and (the real decider) the percentages simply work - for we wimps!
It isn't. It's the occasion that gets to people. Every great of the game has stood on that tee etc plus there are often busloads of tourists watching you. Only time in golf that the hairs on the back of my neck have stood up!
As I recall, a lay up would leave you a 30-50 yard pitch over water? I would much rather have the full shot in!
Do you not recognise the course? Oh, and ask Ian Baker-Finch about 'daunting'!
I’m actually struggling to get over this. I’m gobsmacked. Lay up on 150 yards?!? Surely the chip over for your second has the same risk?
Fair enough. Experience has taught me that I'm rather too likely to have both!
Not for me!
The 1st at Allerton Muni, at 5.35 on a Saturday morning, circa 1989, a light drizzle has formed.
Your ball has inched closer down the trough, after waiting for 45 minutes and you have seen a succession of people hit a decent 200 yard plus drive down the fairway, but you also just seen one lad take 3 air shots, and then knob it 5 inches off the tee with the next swing, and the harumphs from 30 hairy-arsed ford night shift workers, backed up by 20 cabbies who have just come off a Friday night shift around town, is audible.
You look down at your Seve Ballesteros 5 wood (proper wood), which only looks 2 inches wide and the grip was put on by Peter Alliss's dad when he was a young apprentice, and couldn't even sell mars bars as there was a war on. You have a pair of reebok classics on without any grip and the map is original pre-WW1 that your standing on. You have a molitor ball caked in Mesopatamian mud and the tee has given you a splinter already. Its also your first game of proper golf, outside of a pitch and putt.
Its not all about yards, carries, wind, OOB, streams and bunkers you know.
Next question?
Or the ball..... or the teepeg......
drive4show has summed it up more quickly than me....
Haha... to make you feel better, I was playing against my brother and he hit a pull hook off the 18th which ran out of bounds after the path between the first and the warm up putting green. He's never lived it down!! Another of our group had a wedge into the 18th, shanked it, and it bobbled up and down the road to the right, bouncing off a few car tyres before resting about 2inches back in bounds.
The 1st at Allerton Muni, at 5.35 on a Saturday morning, circa 1989, a light drizzle has formed.
Your ball has inched closer down the trough, after waiting for 45 minutes and you have seen a succession of people hit a decent 200 yard plus drive down the fairway, but you also just seen one lad take 3 air shots, and then knob it 5 inches off the tee with the next swing, and the harumphs from 30 hairy-arsed ford night shift workers, backed up by 20 cabbies who have just come off a Friday night shift around town, is audible.
You look down at your Seve Ballesteros 5 wood (proper wood), which only looks 2 inches wide and the grip was put on by Peter Alliss's dad when he was a young apprentice, and couldn't even sell mars bars as there was a war on. You have a pair of reebok classics on without any grip and the map is original pre-WW1 that your standing on. You have a molitor ball caked in Mesopatamian mud and the tee has given you a splinter already. Its also your first game of proper golf, outside of a pitch and putt.
Its not all about yards, carries, wind, OOB, streams and bunkers you know.
Next question?
I played a set of Slazenger Seve Ballesteros clubs today including 1, 3 and 5 woods.
Next question is, what happened to your tee shot?
