Course Strategy - Analyzing a Deceivingly Haunting, Simple Hole

One of our devs was checking out our "Worst Holes" report today. He was shocked when he saw how an easy hole was haunting him. Forest 2 is a short-ish par 4 that should be an easy bogey at worst, but it's been worse than a double for him...

It shouldn't be that tough to bogey a short hole, so what gives. Here's the hole with the dev's approach proximity drawn in...

OK, tight, but not that long.

It doesn't take a monster drive to get it within 125 yards, but it sure takes a straight one, especially with jail right, OB left, and a line of trees that block starting it left and playing his power fade. He drew out his past 5 drives as he remembered them...

We're not sure we believe the good one really ended up there

Out of 5 shots, 1 was good, 4 were in jail. Hypothetically what could he have done with the one good one...

Trust us he's a better developer than a wedge player

He thinks he'd hit the green from there 1 in 5 times, with 1 of the 4 misses being in a recoverable spot. So what should he think next time he walks up to this tee box? He now sees clearly that driver has been a bad call. So he's going out next time with a new strategy: 5 iron, 7 iron, pitch and 2 putts max...

He's worried the other devs will laugh at him when he hits it 180 off the tee, but thinks he'll be the one laughing on the way to the 3rd tee.

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