i recently played a hole like this that was a 90 degree dogleg R...and not only was it acceptable but almost a must...if you hit driver straight u would likely run out of room and outdrive the fairway, if you hit an iron straight you would have 250 in so the only play really was to cut of the corner...i dont think i could ever see a reason it wouldnt be ok as long as you waited for the other tee box to be clear

i know 250 in on a par 4 doesnt make cutting th corner a must per say but it was fairly easy since the dl was so severe to cut the corner n find the fairway so it was far n away the best play

ugh so over the past few days i've suddenly started to hit every iron shot way out on the toe (some are even off the part of the face with groves)

the weird thing is i'm still hitting my normal draw and for the most part the ball goes where i want it to but its flighted a lot lower than usual and every time i make contact it just feels like complete aids, sometimes the club actually slips in my hands at impact

i'm also not really loosing much distance with short irons (guess my clubs are quite forgiving) but most of my 4 irons only go about as far as a 6 or 7 which leaves me with a huge distance gap

There is a hole similar to this on my home course, its a long par 5 but if you hit it right and cut it you can reach it in 2 pretty reasonably and there is limited danger over there so even if you end up in the little bit of trouble areas you can easily still hit a solid shot and be on in 3...

..of course whenever I cut it I end up in a terrible spot but when I try and just hit it down the fairway reasonably I roll it 10-20 feet too far and into the rough.

Stupid hole.

No problem in my opinion as long as you are being aware of people on the teebox so no one is in harm's way.

Doglegs are the most common type of risk/reward holes. If you choose to take the risk I don't see why it wouldn't be "socially acceptable". IMO It's almost like asking if it's socially acceptable to try to drive a 290 yard par 4 with water on the right and bunkers around the hole.

Really? It seems not at all like that. I'd be driving it directly over tee boxes on another hole. And obviously if I hook it it ends up in a completely other fairway which means I may be hitting my 2nd shot way out where I shouldn't be.

Another course I play has a dogleg but if you try the shortcut you are only going over a lake and not other tee boxes/fairway so that one is obviously fine since you're definitely not putting other people at risk and if you slice it or don't reach it you get to drop in a reasonably spot. I'm pretty new to the game so I don't want to tee it up 45 degrees offline if I catch up with a group ahead of me without knowing if it would be seen as OK or not.

Seems like my question has already been answered though.

There's a course I play where the play is to land the ball directly on or near the tee box for the previous hole. The right/front is protected by a pond, but the left is wide open and leaves you a ~25 yard pitch. Problem is there is always someone on the damn tee box.

Also: CG16 PW 44.00° 64.50° 35.75" ... just lol. Wish manufacturers would get rid of iron #'s entirely and just stamp the loft on the club, but then they'd probably make 37.5" pitching wedges. The 7 iron in this set has only 1* more loft than my 5 iron. At this rate there is going to be another wedge coming out just like the gap wedge did.

If noone is on the teebox what's the problem?

If you really shouldn't be playing from somewhere the people running the course could mark it as OOB.

The par 5, 16th on one course I play dog legs right >90 degrees. They planted a bunch of trees right of the tee box to prevent you from trying to go for it in 1 (yes 1, probably 320 as the crow flies) but you would have to hit under (and through) the trees and over the 15th green to get there. Water down the right side of a normal tee shot (so your 2nd is over water to the 2nd fairway)

One day when the course was dead and the wind was at our backs and left to right. I hit a big power fade around the trees over the water into the 2nd fairway leaving myself 160 into the green. Well one of my friends sees this and says "I can do better" lines up straight for the 15th green and rips one under the trees over the 15th green and into the green side bunker on our hole.

Chipping for double eagle from the green side bunker.

We would never do that w/o the wind at our backs and with anyone on the 15th green. Because of how low you need to keep your trajectory to get it under the trees off the right of the 16th tee box.

Either way it was the 1st and only time Ive ever seen someone try to drive the green on a par 5 and almost do it.

Needless to say the 3 of us played that hole at 4 under (2 birdies and eagle) and we have a combined handicap of >35 (we suck but we can hit the ball hard)

Cutting doglegs is also more enticing nowadays since laser range finders are more common and it's easier to get a precise yardage for your approach.

Could be fun. However I´m in Bramming (Kaj Lykke GK) so I´m rarely at Sjælland. If you ever come by my area I can bring a guest for 150 Kr.

Btw. I have been a member of Eventyr golf (Proark) up untill this year. if you should have any questions or things to talk about. Have never played Skjoldnæsholm myself.

Jack Nicklaus says 12 hole rounds are going to be the new trend. Thoughts?

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...unds-of-golf/1

Damnit Jack! I have honestly been saying this for like 3 years now, that a 12 hole course would kill it in a lot of places. 9 holes isn't enough, 18 is too many.

The course I grew up on had #13 come right back to the clubhouse. I played soooo many 13 hole rounds late at night, its almost perfect.

18 is just right.

If you are inpatient and cant play an 18 hole game. you prolly struggle in everyday life. especially the "kids" who he was targeting

No ****. It is 18 holes for a reason.

Anyone want to guess how many shots are in a 5th of scotch?

about 2 weeks ago I cought a cold and stayed in bed for a week.
than I streched some mucles in my back- another week off
today (after almost 2 weeks) I finally went to DR- was pretty good

2h ago I sprained(twisted?) my ankle while playing basketball

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I sprained my ankle on Saturday playing football and not been able to walk on it since. Was just getting in to playing regularly and got at least a few more weeks of rest

Not as many as there were last night.

9 holes is not enough. 18 holes is also not enough.

<3 this game.

cool story, now go tell Jack that.

I think they should invent a ball that only goes about 30% as far as it does now.

12 holes just means I start choking on the 10th

Jack is getting old.

I have what amounts to our club championship starting tomorrow. Sad how few good players we have, so even a bad 2 like me has a pretty decent chance. I really think 75/75/75 is way good.

this, plus my rounds would be even more terrible if they were only 12 holes...its pretty common for me to shoot 5-8 strokes better on the back 9. if i could i would just treat the 1st 9 as a warm up and then play my real 18 after that