Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
I think one of the nicest things as a golfer playing different courses is that the different designs that we see and the different challenges that those golf holes offer us. Certainly one of the nice features of a golf course that a designer can utilize to their advantage is the the undulations of a golf course that the rise and fall in the natural land. If it's a flat piece of land maybe a golf course designer will choose to import some soil to change the levels of shots raising the tee dropping the fairway and particularly nice is raising the green effectively elevating a green up but generally speaking when we elevate a green up above the level of the shot. We're playing on to it we make that a more difficult shot for a couple of reasons firstly sometimes when we're low down on the fairway playing to an elevated green you can't see the surface if it's above I level you'd be looking for maybe the top of the flag on the front edge of the putting surface beyond that you're pretty much guessing about what might happen to that green You might even be guessing where exactly the flag is on the putting surface. So an elevated green can make life very difficult particularly if it's above high level and it's a course that you've not used to playing another things would suggest that if the ball is on a of the green is an elevated green with a flag on top then the edges of that green are actually going to be cascading away from the hole. Making the ball fall away from the putting surface and away from the hole if we reverse that the club will sink the green.
We think the green down it puts it in a base and those balls will bounce in towards the hole we elevate it up it's like an upturned saucer on upturned dish land the ball on top it might roll off the side. So again slightly more difficult to play to what considerations do we have if we are taking these shots on towards an elevated green and one of the issues might be you can no longer roll the ball towards the hole if it's on a big up slope you try and trundle one in from Nice and short it's going to hit the ops like stop and come back down to itself. So there we've got a problem now going to have to fly the ball into the whole case which is a more lofted club and fly the ball then we hit the shot and it doesn't go as far as we're expecting hundred fifty yards with my seven iron no longer reaches the flag lies that well if the ball is a and an elevated green up here and we're flying the ball in it lands and normally it would land on the green elevated green. Still it lands on the up slope and rolled back down towards itself just simple physics and geometry say that if that green is up in the air that ball's not going to fly as far as going to land on the up slope and come down to when you're playing to that elevated green We've got got to consider Can we roll it in maybe not can we fly it in maybe. So we've got to judge the right club because we don't land short and roll down we also don't hit the side when I hit the back because the elevated green is more difficult to land the ball and certainly keep the ball on. So the simple design change by the golf course design of raising a green above the level we're playing from can cause all sorts of problems spend plenty of time practicing your club selection your distance control into elevated greens to enhance your possibility of making a good score on the elevated greens.
2018-08-24 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
I think one of the nicest things as a golfer playing different courses is that the different designs that we see and the different challenges that those golf holes offer us. Certainly one of the nice features of a golf course that a designer can utilize to their advantage is the the undulations of a golf course that the rise and fall in the natural land. If it's a flat piece of land maybe a golf course designer will choose to import some soil to change the levels of shots raising the tee dropping the fairway and particularly nice is raising the green effectively elevating a green up but generally speaking when we elevate a green up above the level of the shot. We're playing on to it we make that a more difficult shot for a couple of reasons firstly sometimes when we're low down on the fairway playing to an elevated green you can't see the surface if it's above I level you'd be looking for maybe the top of the flag on the front edge of the putting surface beyond that you're pretty much guessing about what might happen to that green You might even be guessing where exactly the flag is on the putting surface. So an elevated green can make life very difficult particularly if it's above high level and it's a course that you've not used to playing another things would suggest that if the ball is on a of the green is an elevated green with a flag on top then the edges of that green are actually going to be cascading away from the hole. Making the ball fall away from the putting surface and away from the hole if we reverse that the club will sink the green.
We think the green down it puts it in a base and those balls will bounce in towards the hole we elevate it up it's like an upturned saucer on upturned dish land the ball on top it might roll off the side. So again slightly more difficult to play to what considerations do we have if we are taking these shots on towards an elevated green and one of the issues might be you can no longer roll the ball towards the hole if it's on a big up slope you try and trundle one in from Nice and short it's going to hit the ops like stop and come back down to itself. So there we've got a problem now going to have to fly the ball into the whole case which is a more lofted club and fly the ball then we hit the shot and it doesn't go as far as we're expecting hundred fifty yards with my seven iron no longer reaches the flag lies that well if the ball is a and an elevated green up here and we're flying the ball in it lands and normally it would land on the green elevated green. Still it lands on the up slope and rolled back down towards itself just simple physics and geometry say that if that green is up in the air that ball's not going to fly as far as going to land on the up slope and come down to when you're playing to that elevated green We've got got to consider Can we roll it in maybe not can we fly it in maybe. So we've got to judge the right club because we don't land short and roll down we also don't hit the side when I hit the back because the elevated green is more difficult to land the ball and certainly keep the ball on. So the simple design change by the golf course design of raising a green above the level we're playing from can cause all sorts of problems spend plenty of time practicing your club selection your distance control into elevated greens to enhance your possibility of making a good score on the elevated greens.
