Advice on Bondhead North?

[WDM1980]

I'm playing the North Course tomorrow for the first time. Any advice on managing to keep my scores at a respectible level? I'm a 15 handicapper with a decent game inside 150 yards; I tend to a have problems spraying the longer clubs.

[Focker Singh]

You`re definately going to get a lot of North Course bashing here because of some of the "circus" holes. I believe hole 2, 6 and 17 are severe uphill holes that have blind shots to the green. Every par 3 is tricky as the wind can make you choose up to 3 clubs difference. I personally dont mind the course but it definately has a love it/hate it reputation. Stay in the fairways and avoid the bunkers (they are deep). Greens are extremely difficult to hold so try to not fire at the pins. Greens are fast, hard and undulating. Hard course that does not reward good golf shots. Good luck and have fun!

[Pingnut]

If the pin is on the right side of the par 3 15th - don't shot at it. Very narrow there and serious trouble short and long.. I like the course alot. Played it early in the week of the TGN tournament and without wind I thought it was a fairly easy course... In the howling wind like at the TGN event - any course is going to play tough.

[corchard]

Man you guys are butal...

I was member there last year and have played it more than a few times. I won't give you a hole by hole because you won't remember it anyway. Some general guidelines:

- Try and bump and run your approach shots wherever you can. If you can't then aim for the spot on the front of the green that just passes the trouble. For example if you have a bunker front left choose you distance just over the bunker but aim to the right of the bunker. Anything that hits middle of the green is going to roll to the back or possible off the green.
- Don't be afraid to hammer the ball off the tee. The farther down you are the more spin you can put on the ball with your approach. Just aim away from the obvious trouble (like the big bunker that tempts you to go over)
- If you can't see it, it usually VERY bad. For example the green on the 7th, you can't see long or left (depending on the tee box). Both are death.

Don't expect your best round, it tends to beat up newcomers.

[golferboy]

Pin placements can be extremely difficult here....:eek:

[Timmeh]

I agree get your ball out there as far as you can off the tee keep it in the fairway. and try to bump and run all day. Not that you cant stick them on the green but nobody in my group could but myself and well I tend to shred golf balls. So just go out now and have fun and play your game and nobody else's

Tim

[bundy316]

Don't go over the back of 1....

You have to hire a sherpa to get back up the hill....:D

[MannyR]

If it's windy, stay home.

[Forged5]

Good luck!!!

I played there 2-3 weeks ago. The people I played with had never been there before. I tried to prepare them by saying "if you'd ever been to an amusement park, go on all the crazy rides....well multiply by 3.:rofl:

I'm a solid putter, 29.5 putts a round. Played with a woman who's a 2 hcp. The greens were stupid fast. Not only that, they tucked the pins into cloverleaf corners. Combine that with the speed of the greens, half the time you had to aim away from the pins just to hold the green. Then you'd have a 30-40 foot putt on a stimp of like 12-13.

The woman I played with said on 15 she couldn't wait to get off the course.

Like I said....

GOOD LUCK!!!