Golf on rails

[Thomas Dai]

A theoretical exercise.

Just imagine - a golf course with 18 really wide flat fairways, no rough, no trees or fairway bunkers or water hazards and a railway track down the centre of every hole stretching the entire length of each hole from the furthest back teeing spot to about 10 yds short of the centre of the green. Each green has deep fronting bunkers left and right.

* The tee is moveable.
* It sits on a small cart that rides along the rails. You move the cart along the rails to whatever spot/length you wish to commence playing each hole from.
* Hitting straight down the middle from the tee isn't really on because of the track directly in front, so you have to play to one side of the track or the other.
* When you get just short of the green you push a button and the cart, now empty of players, travels back to the start of the hole so others can use it.
* After playing the hole you walk with your bag to the next hole where another similar track and cart awaits you for playing the next hole.

At what overall yardage - 8000, 7000, 6000, 5000, 4000, 3000, 2000, 1000, or other - would you set the rolling cart at for you to achieve level-4's with 2-putts on every one of the 18-holes?

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[jeffwarne]

hmmmm...


a little off, but I've often joked about cartpaths exactly down the middle with a reward for hitting them and the added benefit of less fairway wear from carts and faster play..


but ick

[Mark Pearce]

hmmmm...


a little off, but I've often joked about cartpaths exactly down the middle with a reward for hitting them and the added benefit of less fairway wear from carts and faster play..


but ick

The Northumberland GC, which is my home course, plays in and around a horse racing track.  On the long par 4 16th, the tarmac road used by emergency vehicles following the racing runs hard alongside the fairway which is narrowed by a fairway bunker on the left about 230 yards off the tee.  Into the prevailing wind, that's where my drives are finishing.  Hitting a draw, as I do, I have to start my ball down the line of that track and draw it back to the fairway.  Every so often, I start it a bit wider, or draw it a bit less, and get a first bounce on the road, normally with shape to come back to the fairway.  It's bad for the ball but tends to mean a 2 or more club advantage for the second shot!  Last week my son's tee shot on the hole turned just the right amount to bounce more than once on the road and then run down it for some distance.....

[Thomas Dai]

hmmmm...
a little off, but I've often joked about cartpaths exactly down the middle with a reward for hitting them and the added benefit of less fairway wear from carts and faster play..
but ick

Tee shot along a road, maybe not as easy as it would seem -
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qth9wwrvtfo&list=PL4ItOTmmpHnLEDrq_I8elX10mOTHKq1cy&index=39&t=0s -
Atb