thepete
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I'm a member of a golf course out in McKinney, TX called Eldorado Country Club. It's a short course compared to today's courses and measures out to about 6,700 yards from the back tees but usually plays 50-75 yards shorter because some tee's are usually up. Par 3's are pretty tuff out there (175, 185 and 195 yards) and the 3 par 5's you can really only reach 1, maybe 2, with a very good drive placed just in the right spot. The par 4's are much shorter but usually a dog leg or some water on one side or the other. It is a pretty tight course with trees on every hole and each green has a pretty good slope on it.
I consider myself a pretty long hitter. On a tight course that sometimes gets me in trouble. BUT, when the long sticks are going well, it leaves me 50-75 yard 2nd shots into the par 4's.
My question is - Would you play this short track with tight fairways with 3 woods and irons off the tee's or would you play away with the driver and take what it gave you?
Given how I'm pretty darn lazy when I play, I'd probably hit a lot of 3-irons and rescues/3-woods off the tees and try to give myself 100-140 yard approaches. The rest is hard to say without knowledge of the rough, how easy the greens are to hold, doglegs etc etc.
Edit: OK, based on those pics.
13: Iron towards thin tree on right side of the fairway. Should leave PW/9-iron.
12: Driver I think, depends on if the water/dogleg can be carried/cut.
17: Iron/3W, depends on how far it is to the dogleg and what's beyond.
9: Driver.
5: Looks like a 6-iron.