Unless the wind will be strong in your face on the approach (and maybe even then), you can lay up straight ahead in the fairway in line with the lava pit on the left.  This should leave an open driver approach into the green — here’s an example hole-out. Or, you can take the traditional […]

The shot here depends on the wind.  With a head-wind, you’ll often high-tee a 3-wood over the top of the trees. This high-teed 5-wood carried into the back rock but caught a great deflection into the cup! With a right-blowing wind, you can aim left and pretty much take the trees out of the picture […]

From the back box, check out the bounces this 5-wood gets off the rock before it finds the cup.  Here’s another terrible shot that kicks all the way over and somehow into the hole!  And this 9-wood rattled around off the rock too and settled back in the cup!  There can be quite a bit […]

This green can rarely be drivable given a great setup — this big A1 shot would have gotten there if not for a bush at the end!  This A1 did graze by the hole, leaving a short chip.  This A1 settled nicely on the green. And this big C3 drive did carry to the green!  Here’s […]

This 3-wood caught tree and hill but still settled down and backspun into a left pin!  This 5-wood also used a nice bounce off the hill to find a front-left pin.  This 5-wood with no roll settled nicely into a back pin. And this driver curved around quite accurately, catching a back pin before tumbling […]

There are a couple ways to get close to this green sometimes.  The natural instinct is to high tee a driver and blast away, but there’s also a ramp that you can catch to propel a straight low-teed driver 400+ yards towards the green.  Give it a try sometime! Otherwise, lay up short of the […]

No reason not to just lay up at the end of the first fairway and bring it in from there — here’s an example driver hole-out. However, here’s a 9-wood hole-out from the second fairway.  If you lose one off the left edge, though, you may get to check out a sweet sand castle! VIDEO […]

Put your drive down in the fairway close to the lava to give yourself a driver straight in over the trees on your approach — here’s an example hole-out. If your drive comes up short and/or you need more distance because you’re around 350 out, then play a big C3 driver shot as your approach […]

Clearing the hill is not that difficult from anywhere in this fairway, but if you can get closer by aiming for the back left fairway, go for it.  This approach shot caught a nice hop off the front rock and settled into a back pin. This shot was way too far left, but the rock […]

Here is a 3-wood floated over the top into a back pin. With a tough left-pin placement, here’s a great 3-wood curved into the hole. A driver still gets over the top too — this one backspun into the hole. VIDEO DEMO

Many times you can just lay back in the first fairway and loft your approach over the tree to the green.  Consider laying back to the left for a 5-wood approach if you don’t have a 7-wood or higher in the bag.  Or, you can carry towards the end of the first fairway and curve […]

Most of the time you can high tee a driver straight ahead to the far-left fairway.  Another option is to rotate right and play a C3 shot with roll out there instead.  Check out this nice hole-out to a front pin.  And here’s a 4-wood hole-out using the back-right of the hill as a backstop. […]

Here’s a 3-wood over the top, spun back to a front pin. This 5-wood caught a soft hop off the rocky ground in front to the hole. VIDEO DEMO

Just punch a drive straight ahead — here’s an example hole-out. VIDEO DEMO

Here’s an example ace to a back-right pin and here’s one sucked back to a front pin. VIDEO DEMO

Here’s an example ace to a front pin followed by another one to a back pin. VIDEO DEMO

From the back box, here’s an ace to a right pin. VIDEO DEMO

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