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Garland Bayley

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Slice side ponds
« on: March 20, 2014, 05:43:18 PM »
Am I wrong, or are they on the lefty's slice side 90% of the time?

How I might play such a hole. ;)

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noonan

Re: Slice side ponds
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2014, 06:07:26 PM »
Aim right of the cart path :)
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Howard Riefs

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Re: Slice side ponds
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2014, 06:09:32 PM »
1.  It certainly seems that way to me, and I don't appreciate it.
2.  It explains why I play a course without water hazards.
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Ian Mackenzie

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Re: Slice side ponds
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2014, 06:17:24 PM »
Looks like a hole that I see on almost every Fazio course.
Lay up, hit a 3 wood or hybrid off the tee. Leave your slicer, I mean driver, in the bag.
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Bill_McBride

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Re: Slice side ponds
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2014, 06:22:35 PM »
The famous Muirfield routing goes clockwise around the perimeter and thereby protects righty slicers from OB which is always on the left.  Too bad for lefty slicers.  Same with that pond.  
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John McCarthy

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Re: Slice side ponds
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2014, 06:26:14 PM »
Is this Bay Hill?  11 on Highlands of Elgin is almost exactly the same.
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Jim_Kennedy

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Re: Slice side ponds
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2014, 06:29:51 PM »
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Pete_Pittock

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Re: Slice side ponds
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2014, 07:03:59 PM »
Garland,
You can always take up bowling ;)

Are most GC architects these days right handed? There may be a latent tendency against left handers because they create only ten percent of the complaints. 
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Nigel Islam

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Re: Slice side ponds
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2014, 07:23:27 PM »
Garland, I have a hard time with these holes because my miss is a right handed, left shot. The trick is to commit to the line. I have played Bay Hill before and on three I hit a very good tee shot, on 6 I bailed way right-twice! I actually think a lot of cape holes go the other way though too.
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Sam Morrow

Re: Slice side ponds
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2014, 07:34:28 PM »
Hit it straight.
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Garland Bayley

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Re: Slice side ponds
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2014, 07:46:03 PM »
Quote from: D Cronan on March 20, 2014, 06:17:40 PM
Quote from: GJ Bailey on March 20, 2014, 05:43:18 PM
Am I wrong, or are they on the lefty's slice side 90% of the time?

How I might play such a hole. ;)



No doubt challenging but the first step would be to move up 2 or 3 tees.

I think Bubba can handle the back tees. Although not today as he pulled a "Daly" and walked off the course after the 11 on this hole.
;)
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Bill_McBride

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Re: Slice side ponds
« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2014, 08:19:12 PM »
Quote from: Nigel Islam on March 20, 2014, 07:23:27 PM
Garland, I have a hard time with these holes because my miss is a right handed, left shot. The trick is to commit to the line. I have played Bay Hill before and on three I hit a very good tee shot, on 6 I bailed way right-twice! I actually think a lot of cape holes go the other way though too.

Played Bay Hill once, birdied 6.  Ho hum.
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Garland Bayley

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Re: Slice side ponds
« Reply #12 on: March 22, 2014, 01:33:45 AM »
Quote from: D Cronan on March 20, 2014, 08:15:05 PM


I'm sorry. I misunderstood. I thought we were talking about you.

No, we are talking about the predelilection of architects to build courses for right handers, as if left handers didn't play the game.

I appreciate a course like Pacific Dunes where the 4th has Ocean right, while the 13th has Ocean left.

Compare that to Sandpines where you are required to hit long tee shots on 17 and 18 with artificial pond on the lefty's slice side.
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Nigel Islam

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Re: Slice side ponds
« Reply #13 on: March 22, 2014, 10:37:11 AM »
Garland, I think some slicers are actually more comfortable with holes that have trouble right for the rightie and vice versa for the leftie.  It really depends on your actual ball flight not whether you are a leftie or a rightie.
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