What are you hitting here?

[Orikoru]

Saw this picture on social media this morning:



Looks mad. Of course, we wouldn't be playing these tees, but hypothetically speaking if you were - what would you be hitting? I think driver just hits the tree. I might be able to hit a 3 wood low enough but I couldn't guarantee it. Those of you who are of a ball-strikers persuasion can probably hit a 2 iron, but all my long clubs are designed to launch the ball up in the air!

Maybe I just aim at that gap top left and let my natural slice come into its own? Hit putter off the tee?? Realistically I'd probably chuck a 3 wood onto the deck rather than using a tee and hope that keeps it low enough.

My mate said he'd just thin a lob wedge.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

What’s the par and length of the hole ?

 

[Lord Tyrion]

It's a par 4, 413yds. There used to be a tree there but it was removed, it had gone bad. They have replaced it with a similar one, to recreate the issue. Supposedly, it should not affect the shot, it is a psychological trick. However.........looking at that photo, not sure they have got the tee box in the right place.

I suspect I would hit a branch, is the glib answer, as I hit my driver quite high, quite quickly. I suspect I would go down the shaft of my driver and try to punch it low.

Hopefully, it is not as tricksy when we watch it tonight.

 

[Orikoru]

What’s the par and length of the hole ?

Par 4 and it looks like over 188 carry needed to find fairway.

 

[Orikoru]

It's a par 4, 413yds. There used to be a tree there but it was removed, it had gone bad. They have replaced it with a similar one, to recreate the issue. Supposedly, it should not affect the shot, it is a psychological trick. However.........looking at that photo, not sure they have got the tee box in the right place.

I suspect I would hit a branch, is the glib answer, as I hit my driver quite high, quite quickly. I suspect I would go down the shaft of my driver and try to punch it low.

Hopefully, it is not as tricksy when we watch it tonight.

Yeah, it might be a perspective trick, maybe the actual teeing markers are closer to it than it looks so they can just easily launch under it. I'm not sure. In that case I'd probably just hit driver off a slightly lower tee to make sure I don't balloon one up into the branch.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

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Par 4 and it looks like over 188 carry needed to find fairway.

So will prob be a 3 wood or a 3iron then to carry the bunker and leave around 150-160 into the green

 

[Golf is fun]

Is the tree really overhanging as much as it looks or is it a trick of perspective?

If you took the same photo from all the left side of the tee box, presumably it would be a clear shot, but generate less action on social media?

 

[The Squirrel]

He’s standing far right ( presumably for camera effect). Looks more playable from far left.

I’m absolute rubbish and can hit a low iron well over 100 barely getting off the deck from way back in the stance with a 2/3 swing (because I get lots of practice hitting out of trees ). Tour pros surely can double that with ease and do it with basically any club too.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Is the tree really overhanging as much as it looks or is it a trick of perspective?

If you took the same photo from all the left side of the tee box, presumably it would be a clear shot, but generate less action on social media?

I’m guessing it’s the little bit of a perspective trick where you can prob hit driver

 

[GreiginFife]

Driver. Don’t hit mine high enough to worry about trees unless they are about 20ft off the ground.

 

[sjw]

Cameras always make things look further away than they are as well. I don't think that tree is in play at all

 

[kp17]

3 iron hybrid off the back foot and hope for the best.

 

[BrianM]

Driver for me if I hope to make a 6

 

[Beezerk]

Driver off the deck like a real man should

 

[jim8flog]

Driver for me.

How high the tee is, exactly where in the stance the tee is placed and how much follow through would depend on what I would actually need to do.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Putter, or if feeling a lucky a driver fired at ground level like an exocet

 

[Springveldt]

They just had a comparison on screen to see what it used to look like before.

 

[jim8flog]

I just settled down to watch The Players on the box and they run a feature about the new tee.
It is about 25 yards in front of the current tee position.
The players being shown took driver.

 

[Orikoru]

They just had a comparison on screen to see what it used to look like before.

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Still not sure if it's perspective or what, but it definitely looks much harder now.

 

[kp17]

The more you see it the more you think I’d just need to knife a 60deg