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Jeff_Brauer

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Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« on: October 31, 2014, 01:42:23 PM »
Just saw this link.

Can't say I disagree with any.  Wondering if there are any more, such as 10 at Pine Valley you would put in.....

http://www.linksmagazine.com/best_of_golf/the-top-10-scariest-shots-in-golf
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K. Krahenbuhl

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2014, 01:47:22 PM »
The second shot (no matter the distance) at Riviera's 10th.
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Josh Tarble

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2014, 01:49:51 PM »
The drive on the 18th at TPC.
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Chris Roselle

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2014, 01:54:49 PM »
Quote from: Jeff_Brauer on October 31, 2014, 01:42:23 PM
Just saw this link.

Can't say I disagree with any.  Wondering if there are any more, such as 10 at Pine Valley you would put in.....

http://www.linksmagazine.com/best_of_golf/the-top-10-scariest-shots-in-golf

Jeff, I find the tee shot on 14 much scarier than the tee shot on 10...
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Paul Gray

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2014, 02:30:38 PM »
Having little experience of them I'm not best placed to judge perhaps but I can say that at face value at least none of these shots scare me.

Give me a 40 yard chip and run however on a seriously firm and fast course with something approaching a miniature mountain range to negotiate and I can certainly feel my heart racing. But then that wouldn't produce the right photos for the article.
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Jon Wiggett

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2014, 02:32:00 PM »
Looks more like a difficult shots at famous courses to me though agree that the odd one or two would be nerve racking. However, saying that the 17th at TOC is a scary shot ::) difficult to par yes but scary no. A 272 yard par four does not become any scarier as a par three either. 17 at Sawgrass I can see as scary though and Pine Valley certainly has its fair share.

Now the first tee shot at Whitefield, Dunbar is a scary shot.

Jon
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Ryan Coles

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2014, 02:32:55 PM »
Quote from: Paul Gray on October 31, 2014, 02:30:38 PM
Having little experience of them I'm not best placed to judge perhaps but I can say that at face value at least none of these shots scare me.

Give me a 40 yard chip and run however on a seriously firm and fast course with something approaching a miniature mountain range to negotiate and I can certainly feel my heart racing. But then that wouldn't produce the right photos for the article.

Get the putter out Paul.
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Paul Gray

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2014, 02:34:01 PM »
Quote from: Ryan Coles on October 31, 2014, 02:32:55 PM
Quote from: Paul Gray on October 31, 2014, 02:30:38 PM
Having little experience of them I'm not best placed to judge perhaps but I can say that at face value at least none of these shots scare me.

Give me a 40 yard chip and run however on a seriously firm and fast course with something approaching a miniature mountain range to negotiate and I can certainly feel my heart racing. But then that wouldn't produce the right photos for the article.

Get the putter out Paul.

I play links golf. I barely know how to use anything else.  ;D
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Cliff Hamm

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2014, 02:59:27 PM »
11 at Pasatiempo - second shot





« Last Edit: October 31, 2014, 03:19:47 PM by Cliff Hamm »
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Mark McKeever

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2014, 03:00:05 PM »
Quote from: Chris Roselle on October 31, 2014, 01:54:49 PM
Quote from: Jeff_Brauer on October 31, 2014, 01:42:23 PM
Just saw this link.

Can't say I disagree with any.  Wondering if there are any more, such as 10 at Pine Valley you would put in.....

http://www.linksmagazine.com/best_of_golf/the-top-10-scariest-shots-in-golf

Jeff, I find the tee shot on 14 much scarier than the tee shot on 10...

100% agreed CR!
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David Whitmer

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2014, 03:49:53 PM »
One that jumped out to me is the tee shot on the 8th hole at Butler National. Water short, right, and long, and overhanging trees and a bunker to the left. Long enough that I hit a 4 iron. I gotta say, that got my attention.

Also, the tee shot on #12 at Muirfield Village to a back-right hole location.

One more...the tee shot on #18 at Crooked Stick when you've been fighting an uncontrollable fade all day.
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John Connolly

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2014, 03:54:10 PM »
I'd agree with Carnoustie's 6th - Hogan's Alley.

I stood on the tee and said to myself, 'don't go left, don't go left, don't go left'.

I hit it left.
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Keith Grande

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2014, 03:59:12 PM »
A greenside bunker shot with green sloping towards a water hazard (something like #17 at PGA National)...
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Mark McKeever

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #13 on: October 31, 2014, 04:07:29 PM »
Quote from: Cliff Hamm on October 31, 2014, 02:59:27 PM
11 at Pasatiempo - second shot







Cliff, its probably not half as bad if you're not ten paces into the right rough!   ;)
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Thomas Dai

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #14 on: October 31, 2014, 04:10:44 PM »
Surely a shot is only scary if there's no lay-up or alternative/option available? Or, I guess, if the alternatives/options are equal in the difficulty stakes to the shot initially considered to be scary.
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J_ Crisham

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #15 on: October 31, 2014, 04:25:25 PM »
Quote from: Mark McKeever on October 31, 2014, 04:07:29 PM
Quote from: Cliff Hamm on October 31, 2014, 02:59:27 PM
11 at Pasatiempo - second shot






I was thinking the same thing- his third shot over the baranca is the dicey one!:) No way any nontour player goes for 11 from the spot of the picture.
Cliff, its probably not half as bad if you're not ten paces into the right rough!   ;)
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J_ Crisham

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #16 on: October 31, 2014, 04:27:23 PM »
Quote from: K. Krahenbuhl on October 31, 2014, 01:47:22 PM
The second shot (no matter the distance) at Riviera's 10th.
+1,   I think the 2nd shot into 8 at Prairie Dunes is much harder though. At Riv at least you will be in a bunker- at PD you can be in the shiite.
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William_G

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #17 on: October 31, 2014, 05:21:59 PM »
very back tee Old Head #18 or very back tee at #12 Manele Bay   8)
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Cliff Hamm

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #18 on: October 31, 2014, 05:30:54 PM »
Why would anyone think that a picture is taken only from where a ball has landed?  Is this better?  And no this is also not necessarily where a ball landed, simply a photo of a great hole...



Best drive of the day.  Made the second not nearly as intimidating as from the right rough ;D

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Bill_McBride

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #19 on: October 31, 2014, 05:35:35 PM »
10 and 11 back to back at Pasa, as tough as it gets. 

I have never hit a shot at the 11th green except from the far side of the barranca.  Nothing good lurks on the right side of that green!
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Howard Riefs

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #20 on: October 31, 2014, 05:38:38 PM »
Quote from: Mark McKeever on October 31, 2014, 04:07:29 PM

Cliff, its probably not half as bad if you're not ten paces into the right rough!   ;)


It's still scary from the left side of the fairway.





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Kevin_Reilly

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #21 on: October 31, 2014, 06:06:21 PM »
Not on the list, but hard to feel comfortable with this one, as demonstrated by a GCAer.

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Patrick Kiser

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #22 on: October 31, 2014, 06:21:03 PM »
Quote from: Kevin_Reilly on October 31, 2014, 06:06:21 PM
Not on the list, but hard to feel comfortable with this one, as demonstrated by a GCAer.

11th or 12th there Kevin?  I'm guessing the 12th.
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Mark Chaplin

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #23 on: October 31, 2014, 06:42:32 PM »
10 at PV is a pretty comfortable shot with an 8 iron. I'd say the 3/4 wedge to the left green on 8 at PV and the approach to 18 on Olympic Lake again with a short iron are far scarier.
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Tim Martin

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Re: Links Magazine - scariest shots in golf
« Reply #24 on: October 31, 2014, 07:05:26 PM »
Tee shot on 17 at Kiawah Ocean
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