What is A Redan Hole and How Can I Best Play It? (Video) - by Pete Styles
What is A Redan Hole and How Can I Best Play It? (Video) - by Pete Styles

So how could you best play a Redan Hole? Now the first thing to understand here is what that terminology actually means. This is generally considered to come from a hole of the 15th at North Berwick in Scotland where the hole is a short par 3 where the green actually lays across the golfer. So it’s wider but not very deep, so it’s quite a wide green not very deep. And the green actually slopes slightly away from you bunker in the top, left hand corner. So it’s a very difficult green to judge in terms of the distance of your shot needs to be very accurate. We need to be quite aggressive because we need to get it onto the surface but it slopes away from you on the far side. So we can’t be too flighty with the ball, we can’t run it too far up there.

We’ve also got to consider the club selection needs to be good because the green is quite narrow. The other thing to think about here is as far as the green is quite wide we can be quite aggressive with our approach shot. We can normally aim directly at the flag because it’s quite left to right quite wide. If you hit it into the middle and the flag’s over at one corner you could hit a good shot but leave yourself with a 35-44 put. So as long as the flag isn’t too near to that left hand bunker or if there’s another bunker on the hole but North Berwick left hand side trap, if the flag is near there you generally play to the middle. If the flag is in the middle of the green go straight at it and if the flag’s in the right hand corner go ahead and attempt that flag because the middle of the green could be 35-40 feet away. Get the right club selection because we know we’ve got a narrow green to aim to so we’ve got to be – it’s wide this way but it’s narrow in terms of its depth so we need good club accuracy. We also need to fly the ball all the way in because that green tilts away from you, any ball that lands short and is rolling is probably not going to stop on the surface so we need to flight it all the way in. Little bit of back spin to check it up on the surface. Then go ahead and once you’ve had all of that good course management information, go ahead and be quite confident with the shot. There’s no point standing there and then pulling out of the shot and struggling. So only a little par 3, if you’ve got the right club, you’d be nice and confident, nice and aggressive, there’s no reason why you can’t par the Redan golf hole. 2014-05-09

So how could you best play a Redan Hole? Now the first thing to understand here is what that terminology actually means. This is generally considered to come from a hole of the 15th at North Berwick in Scotland where the hole is a short par 3 where the green actually lays across the golfer. So it’s wider but not very deep, so it’s quite a wide green not very deep. And the green actually slopes slightly away from you bunker in the top, left hand corner. So it’s a very difficult green to judge in terms of the distance of your shot needs to be very accurate. We need to be quite aggressive because we need to get it onto the surface but it slopes away from you on the far side. So we can’t be too flighty with the ball, we can’t run it too far up there.

We’ve also got to consider the club selection needs to be good because the green is quite narrow. The other thing to think about here is as far as the green is quite wide we can be quite aggressive with our approach shot. We can normally aim directly at the flag because it’s quite left to right quite wide. If you hit it into the middle and the flag’s over at one corner you could hit a good shot but leave yourself with a 35-44 put. So as long as the flag isn’t too near to that left hand bunker or if there’s another bunker on the hole but North Berwick left hand side trap, if the flag is near there you generally play to the middle. If the flag is in the middle of the green go straight at it and if the flag’s in the right hand corner go ahead and attempt that flag because the middle of the green could be 35-40 feet away.

Get the right club selection because we know we’ve got a narrow green to aim to so we’ve got to be – it’s wide this way but it’s narrow in terms of its depth so we need good club accuracy. We also need to fly the ball all the way in because that green tilts away from you, any ball that lands short and is rolling is probably not going to stop on the surface so we need to flight it all the way in. Little bit of back spin to check it up on the surface. Then go ahead and once you’ve had all of that good course management information, go ahead and be quite confident with the shot. There’s no point standing there and then pulling out of the shot and struggling. So only a little par 3, if you’ve got the right club, you’d be nice and confident, nice and aggressive, there’s no reason why you can’t par the Redan golf hole.