Hell Day Tournament 2009 Video
Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, November 6th, 2009
Categories: Golf Videos • Hackers • Miscellaneous
Categories: Golf Videos • Hackers • Miscellaneous
For those who wanted to get the flavor of my club’s Hell Day tournament, here’s a YouTube video below for your enjoyment. When I posted the 2008 video, YouTube killed the audio because I used a Disturbed song. To avoid that this time around the soundtrack for this one is some cuts from band called Spazz, which play the drums in…
Advise for chipping on tight lies
Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Categories: Golf Instruction • Hackers • Instruction
Categories: Golf Instruction • Hackers • Instruction
The weather is changing here. The grass on the courses has slowed or stopped growing. When the courses aren’t covered in winter snow here in Utah and the grass is dormant, the lies in the fairways or anywhere there’s short grass, can be very tight.
Chipping with higher lofted wedges
I usually like to chip with my 56 degree wedge, put the ball back in my stance, close the face and hit a descending blow to get it running. If I need the ball to run less or carry more, I’ll use my lob wedge (60). But the tighter the lies and the rustier I get (from playing less due to the weather), the tougher these shots become to execute.
Chipping with mid-irons
Yesterday on the 6th hole (with my opponents pressing me I might add) I had one of these very tight lies. I had a tough tight lie and no green to work with. I was about 10-15 feet short of the green on this par-3, and there was a front pin. Having never even practiced this shot I grabbed my 8-iron and decided I’d just put a putting stroke on it. I figured the amount of loft on the club would get the ball in the air just enough to carry the ball over enough of the short grass, yet roll the ball like a putt when it got to the green. I assumed my putting stance and grip, choking down on the club to about where my normal putting grip would be on my putter.
My opponents watched in horror and amazement as the low shot bounced twice in the short grass, landed on the fringe and rolled just like a perfect putt straight to the hole. My pal Arnie dropped his putter on the ground and threw his hands up in the air as my 8-iron chip dropped center cut in the hole for birdie.
I turned to them and said “I guess I’ll be using that shot more.”
Later in the round on #11 I had a similar scenario. Once again I was just short of the green with a front pin. I hit the same shot with my 8-iron. I didn’t drain this one for birdie, but did leave myself an easy 1-footer to save par.
Conclusion
If the ground is smooth enough and you can roll the ball a bit around the greens, it may be easier to put a more pendulum-like stroke on a mid-iron rather than trying to make perfect contact with a higher lofted club. If you’re like me and sometimes have trouble chipping, try hitting some running shots with a lower lofted club and a putting stroke. It is very hard, almost impossible, to blade or hit this shot fat.
2010 PGA TOUR Schedule
| Date | Tournament | Location |
| Jan. 4-10 | SBS Championship | Kapalua, Hawaii |
| Jan. 11-17 | Sony Open in Hawaii | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Jan. 18-24 | Bob Hope Classic | La Quinta, Calif. |
| Jan. 25-31 | Century Club of San Diego Invitational | La Jolla, Calif. |
| Feb. 1-7 | Northern Trust Open | Pacific Palisades, Calif. |
| Feb. 8-14 | AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am | Pebble Beach, Calif. |
| Feb. 15-21 | World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Champ. Mayakoba Golf Classic at Riviera Maya-Cancun |
Marana, Ariz. Playa del Carmen, Mexico |
| Feb. 22-28 | FBR Open | Scottsdale, Ariz. |
| March 1-7 | The Honda Classic | Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. |
| March 8-14 | World Golf Championships-CA Championship Puerto Rico Open presented by Banco Popular |
Doral, Fla. Rio Grande, Puerto Rico |
| March 15-21 | Transitions Championship | Palm Harbor, Fla. |
| March 22-28 | Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard | Orlando, Fla. |
| March 29-April 4 | Shell Houston Open | Humble, Texas |
| April 5-11 | The Masters | Augusta, Ga. |
| April 12-18 | Verizon Heritage | Hilton Head Island, S.C. |
| April 19-25 | Zurich Classic of New Orleans | Avondale, La. |
| April 26-May 2 | Quail Hollow Championship | Charlotte, N.C. |
| May 3-9 | THE PLAYERS Championship | Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. |
| May 10-16 | Valero Texas Open | San Antonio, Texas |
| May 17-23 | HP Byron Nelson Championship | Irving, Texas |
| May 24-30 | Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial | Fort Worth, Texas |
| May 31-June 6 | the Memorial Tournament presented by Morgan Stanley | Dublin, Ohio |
| June 7-13 | St. Jude Classic | Memphis, Tenn. |
| June 14-20 | U.S. Open | Pebble Beach, Calif. |
| June 21-27 | Travelers Championship | Cromwell, Conn. |
| June 28-July 4 | AT&T National | Newtown Square, Pa. |
| July 5-11 | John Deere Classic | Silvis, Ill. |
| July 12-18 | The Open Championship Legends Reno-Tahoe Open |
St. Andrews, Scotland Reno, Nev. |
| July 19-25 | RBC Canadian Open | Etobicoke, Ontario |
| July 26-Aug. 1 | The Greenbrier Classic | White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. |
| Aug. 2-8 | World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational Turning Stone Resort Championship |
Akron, Ohio Verona, N.Y. |
| Aug. 9-15 | PGA Championship | Kohler, Wis. |
| Aug. 16-22 | Wyndham Championship | Greensboro, N.C. |
| Aug. 23-29 | The Barclays | Paramus, N.J. |
| Aug. 30-Sept. 6 | Deutsche Bank Championship | Norton, Mass. |
| Sept. 6-12 | BMW Championship | Lemont, Ill. |
| Sept. 20-26 | THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola | Atlanta, Ga. |
The new CNN web site sucks
Forget golf for a second. I used to drop by the CNN web site on a daily basis to check up on the rest of the world apart from golf. Now I’m going to find a new place to go. The new design of their site sucks. There’s much less “information” on the home page now. To make it worse, the ads are insanely intrusive. I just watched the whole home page move down while 24,000 Hundai cars flew around my screen. All of the content was moved down while this over the top ad, which I didn’t want to see, took over my screen.
Now deleting CNN from my bookmarks…
Hell Day is a fun tournament format
Today is the annual Hell Day Tournament at my local club. This is the last event of the year. The tournament was snowed out last week so today is the rescheduled day. I got this idea from a club I was in a few years ago. During Hell Day, we set the course up completely unfair, difficult, insane, nutty. As club president, I get to set the course up however I want. Very fun.
Tees
The tees can be anywhere. We’ve teed off of the front porch of the range shack, ladies’ tees, dirt roads dozens of yards from the regular tees, sidehill lies etc. On #10 every year we tee off in the grass by the clubhouse, about 175 yards behind the blue tees. It is a 350 yard drive to even get to the fairway and that landing area is 30 yards wide with trees on both sides. On #16 this year, we’re teeing off from a circle on a dead end street between 15 green and 16 tee. We bring in range mats for those sorts of lies.
Today’s tees include teeing off of #13 blacks to #12 green (par-3), teeing off #13 whites to #15 fairway (320 yards), teeing off #12 reds to #13 (par-5) etc.
On #18 today, a par-3, we’re putting two sets of clubs on the tee. Right handed players must tee off left handed, and left handed players must use right handed clubs.
Fairways
Sometimes we’ll require players hit a pumpkin in the fairway before they can proceed to the green. We may require that their shots go IN a fairway bunker or greenside bunker before they can continue.
Greens
All of the greens have pins in the worst places possible, like in the middle of severe slopes. If you miss the putt, you’ll be 30 feet away. One year I 11-putted #14.
One green last year we made a hole which was about a foot wide. I heard guys saying they lipped out because they played their putts “right edge”??? DOH! On #15 the last few years we put several flags in the green. You can putt to whatever hole you want.
New ideas
I’d like to play the whole course backwards one of these years. Every year we try to make it even more crazy.
Cool trophy
I reaaaallly want to win this year. The trophy for the winner is mega cool.
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