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Post by linkslover on Apr 12, 2019 1:46:53 GMT -5
The 10th is another par 5. Your tee shot plays downhill (a theme of the course) to a fairway that slopes away to the right. While there are no fairway bunkers, there is a bush and a tree inside the dog leg corner and a drop off most of the way down the right hand side. If you connect with your tee shot and keep it on the fairway, you should make it over the small ravine around 50 yards or so in front of the green. If you don't, you won't. The ravine is not a penalty area and you must play as it lies or declare an unplayable. The green is tooth shaped with two bunkers, one front middle and one back middle. A pin placement between the bunkers is tough to get to, in fact impossible to get to in two shots... but then it is a par 5.
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Post by linkslover on Apr 18, 2019 1:44:39 GMT -5
The 11th is a dog leg left par 4. Playing downhill off the tee to a generous fairway, you decide how much of the bunker protected corner you want to cut off, flirting with the trees as you do so. Staying left and cutting the corner gives you a far better angle and lie to most pins on the green than going safe right and having to play off a side hill lie. You then play downhill to a slightly raised, two tiered green that is well protected by bunkers front and sides. A couple of pins are well protected by the sand or the tier of the green, so think carefully where you hit your approach shot to.
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Post by linkslover on Apr 23, 2019 11:35:26 GMT -5
Maybe the 2-3 months in the original post was optimistic... it is 3 months yesterday since I started the course. I'm nearly finished the 12th.
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Post by linkslover on Apr 25, 2019 1:44:37 GMT -5
Number 12 is a lengthy par 4 with an uphill tee shot to the dog leg right corner. Getting to the top of the hill on the corner will give you sight of the green with your second. Leave it short and you may well be unsighted. While there are no fairway bunkers, there are trees lurking. A number sit just off the fairway left and long from the tee, while a single tree sits right on the corner of the dog leg (not seen in the pictures). Unless you are sitting right up against it, this won't block you out on your second shot, but might force you to hit a draw or a fade round it to the green. You then play over a valley to a green with a false front that is protected by three bunkers, the third one is partly hidden by the shadow of a tree on the left.
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Post by linkslover on Apr 30, 2019 1:47:27 GMT -5
Will this be your unlucky hole? Number 13 sees you play uphill on your tee shot with a decision to make from the tee. The safe, straight shot will leave you around 190-200 yards to the green from a flatish lie if you're on the fairway. Your other option is to try and cut the corner but there is danger. Two bunkers lurk to gobble up balls short. Trees are left to engulf anything hit that way and the fairway is severely sloped downhill. This route can save you as much as 70 yards, but if you can keep it on the fairway, you'll be on a severe downslope. And it depends on the wind too. The second shot is hit to a green that sits up on a plateau and is angled away from the player, making you essentially play to a shallow but very wide green rather than the usual deep but narrow. This is likely to be a tricky hole.
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Post by linkslover on May 2, 2019 1:44:28 GMT -5
An early look up the final par 5 14th hole from the tee. Two fairways to choose from. The left is longer and wider but you won't reach in two while the right is direct with a narrow fairway with trees tight to the edge and a chance of making it in two.
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Post by linkslover on May 10, 2019 1:48:42 GMT -5
The 14th is now finished. From the front tee the only route is up the left fairway. The other two tees gives you the choice of fairway mentioned in the post above. The left fairway is safer but stray too far right off the fairway and your ball will be bounding down the slope into the trees between the fairways. This is a three shot route. Going right will give you a chance to get on in two. It's dead straight but the fairway is tighter with trees and rocks lurking, while the second shot is blind with the only reference point being the camera tower behind the green. The green slopes from back left to front right and the middle pin is probably going to be the hardest to get to as it is on a flatish ridge that's only about 4 yards wide.
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Post by linkslover on May 16, 2019 1:47:13 GMT -5
On to the 15th, our penultimate par 3. It's a long one approaching 220 yards from the tips and is all carry, though the green is fairly generous in size. A back right pin placement is the hardest as it sits on top of a small plateau so anything short or left will be rolling back down the slope, especially when the greens play fast.
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Post by linkslover on May 29, 2019 4:34:43 GMT -5
The 16th, an island par 3. It's long but the green is quite large to compensate this, though a pin right has a small target if going for the flag.
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Post by linkslover on Jun 6, 2019 1:43:09 GMT -5
The 17th is one of the shorter par 4s at The Swiss Wall but it doesn't mean it will be easy. Teeing off over the same expanse of water that surrounds the 16th green, the player faces a choice of the tee - do you try and cross with river with your tee shot? Doing so leaves you a short iron into a well protected green at the foot of The Swiss Wall with a raised ledge on both back corners. Laying up will leave you a long iron in. Your choice is determined by which tees you are playing off, how far you can hit the ball and which way the wind is blowing.
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Post by ohheycat on Jun 11, 2019 22:54:23 GMT -5
We getting pretty close here? Looks like it
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Post by linkslover on Jun 12, 2019 1:45:25 GMT -5
We are indeed Dog, we are indeed.
Did the Dog catch the Cat like Spike did with Tom?
(Is Tom & Jerry still even broadcast these days?)
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Post by ohheycat on Jun 12, 2019 8:57:57 GMT -5
We are indeed Dog, we are indeed. Did the Dog catch the Cat like Spike did with Tom? (Is Tom & Jerry still even broadcast these days?) That cat was a pga caliber character. This dog doesn't play tgctours anymore but I'm still checking out designs. Mostly because somebody asked what happened with me. My swing is in limbo as I'm generally too straight to utilize the infamous short swing even though it's just the way that I play naturally. My api chart showed a full round with very little deviation, although there no perfectly straight swings. Something we all try to do but if you succeed, goodbye
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Post by linkslover on Jun 12, 2019 10:37:42 GMT -5
Oh well. Not up for me to be judge or jury on that one. Just enjoy The Swiss Wall when it does come out.
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Post by linkslover on Jun 13, 2019 1:45:19 GMT -5
ohheycat The 18th is prooving a right bugger to sculpt. As it's on top of The Swiss Wall it is massively elevated above the rest of the course. Because the Wall is so close to the hole I have to be precise and because the land is already raised massively I can only do minimal raising for the actual hole. This one might be a pretty flat hole, but don't look down. Unless it's snowing and you're brave and wearing skis.
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