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Speaker 3: It's not cheap to play golf in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
Speaker 5: It's probably one of the more expensive places to play.
Speaker 1: Even in Hawaii.
Speaker 5: There are still golf courses here that charge different rates
for different nationalities. If you can believe that the US
citizens would pay one rate, and in the Japanese citizens
that would be coming over to play would pay a
higher rate than the mainland visitors that would be here playing.
For instance, I know of a golf course on Oahu
that the visitor rate for mainland visitors is two hundred
and twenty five dollars, and the visitor rate for eighteen
holes for Japanese citizens is two hundred and seventy five dollars.
Speaker 3: Racial profiling and golf absolutely here in Hawaii. Oh, did
we just break a huge story here? It's not illegal
in this country. A golf history of Hawaii and a
de tour of Maui's Pukolani Country Club with general manager
Ron Huffman.
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Speaker 3: Here's your host, Fred Green. Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast. Ron.
Speaker 1: Hey, Fred, how are you excellent? Thank you?
Speaker 3: Well, of course you're excellent. You live in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: You live in what a beautiful place. Fred, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Tell me how long you've been here, how you got here?
And we'll get into your golf course too.
Speaker 5: Well, Fred, my story is like a lot of other
people that live in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 5: In nineteen ninety six, my wife and I traveled to
Hawaii and on our way back on the plane, we
both made a commitment that we turned in our resignations
and gave it six months. We had six months of
savings at the time, and we said we'll make it
stretch as.
Speaker 1: Far as we can.
Speaker 5: And believe it or not, the first week that we
came out here, I was working.
Speaker 1: So that's how we moved here.
Speaker 3: And you you were working in golf before you left.
Speaker 5: Where were you before you were It was in Dallas
Fort Worth here a Dallas, Texas working for a golf
management company. I managed to golf courses in Texas at
the time.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, So you came out here looking for golf work.
Speaker 5: Came out here looking for golf work. There's no better
place in the world golf three hundred and sixty five
days out of the year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, not three hundred and sixty four maybe today
as we're doing this interview. I played two rounds yesterday
on the course and loved and we'll talk about that.
But today it's kind of gray and wet outside.
Speaker 5: Well, Fred, I still can't wait to hear your story
because you told me a couple of days ago that
Wednesday is going to rain. Yeah, and I thought to myself, well,
it's got a chance of raining, probably, Fred, you're one
hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Well there's an app for that, you know that, right?
Speaker 5: Well, why, weather sometimes difficult to forecast, but you hit
it on the head today.
Speaker 3: Well that's really fun. Actually, the reason is because the
buddy I'm staying with who lives here, his brother is
a professional meteorologist, and so he always is right on
top of it. He goes, oh, and this morning he's
pulling out maps, going to see the front. It's right here,
it's gonna bomb us let's say about ten o'clock on
And it's like, okay, great, So yeah, it wasn't that
hard to figure out it.
Speaker 1: So this wasn't your skill that you brought in to it.
Speaker 3: No, No, it was an app. It literally was the
weather app saying there's an eighty percent chance of right.
Speaker 1: Well, unfortunately for our players, you were right.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well you know you still got people out there today.
Speaker 1: We do have some diehards, Yes, yeah you do.
Speaker 3: You got some, and it's but they look like locals.
They don't the guys that I saw on the course.
Speaker 5: Well, we we have a few locals out there. And
we also have some Seattle citizens out there right now,
yes Canadians.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that are used to this.
Speaker 3: And they love it. This is easy for them, right. Problem,
what's the big deal? So let's let's talk about it. Okay,
we are at the puk. We never even mentioned this.
We're at the Pukalani Country Club here on Maui. Give
me a geographic position to explained to where on Maui,
where we are? Where you know?
Speaker 5: Well, we're right basically in the center of Mali. There
is the world's largest dormant volcano, which people are not
aware of, is right here on Mali. It's Holly Akala,
the House of the Rising Sun is what Holli Akola
means in Hawaiian and Pukolani means entrance to heaven, which
is very neat in the Hawaiian language.
Speaker 1: We are at twelve hundred feet.
Speaker 3: Is that a positive thing, entrance to heaven or does
that mean dead?
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's a positive thing most of the time. Yeah,
it's the beauty of heaven. So we're at twelve hundred
feet above sea level. We're located. There's one main main
airport here on Mali, that's the Kahlui Airport. We're located
ten minutes from the airport. Very convenient. So please send
everybody our direction free.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we'll do my bed. This is not the heavy
tourist area of Mali.
Speaker 1: It is not.
Speaker 5: This area of Malai is known as the upcountry, which
is very different. A lot of Pontiolas, which is Hawaiian
cowboys up in this area. We have the one of
the only rodeos in Hawaii. We here for our July
fourth celebration. So people up country are different than the
people that live down in the resorts.
Speaker 1: They're more down home.
Speaker 5: Got really the spirit of aloha up here, which is
really neat. The spirit aloha is not actually just a word.
It means the spirit of how people treat each other.
And we believe that the spirit of aloha is live
and bustling here up country on Malai.
Speaker 3: Oh that's beautiful. That's beautiful. I got to believe that
the culture, the spirit of Hawaii. The culture here is
a little bit different than Dallas Fort Worth.
Speaker 1: It is much different than Dallas Fort Worth.
Speaker 3: Yes, you must have gone into culture.
Speaker 5: I went into culture shock big time when I moved here.
In cowboys, different kind of cowboys exactly. In ninety six,
when I moved here, I started work as they had
golf professional at Turtle Bay on Oahu, which has hosted
PGA Tour events, LPGA Tour events, beautiful thirty six hole layout.
But when I moved here, Turtle Bay is on a
corner of a Wahoo that is not very close to Honolulu.
So all of the employees at the golf course were local,
you know, I mean local. They have different ways of
doing things, they have different ways of talking, you know,
they talk about grinds for food. And it took me
a few months before I actually understood what was going on,
but I did eventually end up catching on. And there's
a totally different dialect for the local Hawaiian people here
have you.
Speaker 3: Had I've noticed over coming to Hawaii for thirty some
odd years. And I'm not accusing any specific person of anything,
but there just feels like the Howleyes Holles are like,
you're not a native Hawaiian. No, you were not, And
there's an attitude towards Howley's. So when you come to
work for a place that you come from, you know,
Texas is like Hawaii, it's a country, it's just a
different country. And you come in having done this work before.
But you come and working with a lot of locals.
How do you warm yourself up to them? How do
you get them to buy into your program?
Speaker 5: It's quite a challenge, and they don't buy into your programs.
To tell you the truth until it takes some time.
Just like with a lot of different areas of our
world that we live.
Speaker 1: In, it takes some time to win over their trust.
It does.
Speaker 5: But once you get that trust, I have found that
the Hawaiian people are great people to live with. They
really are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's beautiful, it's a beautiful it really is beautiful country,
and it's a great culture.
Speaker 1: It is very deep in culture.
Speaker 5: Back in nineteen fifty nine, when Hawaii became a state,
there was some of the local people still believe that
the Allies, which are the white people that are invading
their territory or their country here in Hawaii, they were
part of the army that kept the local Hawaiian people
from voting and actually kept them out of the voting
hall so they could not determine if Hawaii would come
a state or not. So they have resentment to Halley's
or white people, because that is the belief that some
Hawaiians still to this day believe that the white people
wanted Hawaii to become a state, but the local people
wanted Hawaii to stay a completely different territory.
Speaker 3: When was golf introduced to Hawaii, do you have any
sense of that.
Speaker 5: Actually, I do know a little bit about the history.
Back in eighteen ninety the first golf course that was
built west of the Mississippi was actually on Oahu. Mauna
Lua Golf Club was the first golf course west that
was built west of the Mississippi.
Speaker 3: Okay, I've heard that said about a couple of different courts.
Speaker 6: Is that's interesting that that is the the history of
Hawaiian golf, and that's what Hawaiians believe, So everybody has
different parts of But it wasn't.
Speaker 3: It wasn't really. I can't imagine that it was adopted
by by the native Hawaiians. Probably the whites that were here.
Speaker 5: The whites exactly were the privilege, were the ones that
brought the game of golf here exactly, and the locals
basically were just caddies. Yeah, And even back in the
early nineties when we had the Hawaiian Open, the United
Airlines Hawaiian Open that was hosted at Wailai Country Club,
all the caddies were barefooted and that came from the
local Hawaiians that always when they caddied, they were always barefoot.
Speaker 3: So I can see why I've had before. I love
playing there there was a lot of it. But so
Hawaii's golf is still pretty much catering to you know,
the big courses that you know about, they're catering to
the white privileged class exactly. But now you have Japanese
privilege cla. I mean, it's not cheap to play golf
in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
Speaker 5: It's probably one of the more expensive places to play.
And even in Hawaii there are still golf courses here
that that charge different rates for different nationalities. If you
can believe that the US citizens would pay one rate
and the Japanese citizens that would be coming over to
play would pay a higher rate than the mainland visitors
that would be here playing. And for instance, I know
of a golf course on Oahu that the visitor rate
for mainland visitors is two hundred and twenty five dollars
and the visitor rate for eighteen holes for Japanese citizens
is two hundred and seventy five dollars.
Speaker 3: So racial profiling and golf absolutely here in Hawaii. Did
we just break a huge story here? It's not illegal
in this.
Speaker 5: Country, So yes, it does happen. Still, wow, and you
see it's.
Speaker 1: Not really right.
Speaker 5: I don't believe it to be a fair practice, just
due to the fact that you're discouraging the Japanese visitors
from coming over and enjoying our golf courses. Whereas the
mainland visitors, the tourists which we have, they're the number
one industry in Hawaii. And if you work here in
Hawaii you understand that, you really do. But again, I
don't agree with the profiling that happens between the Japanese citys.
Speaker 3: Vitality is the industry of it is of Hawaiian.
Speaker 1: It is very much is.
Speaker 5: Tourism is by far the number one economic driver here
in the state.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about we are going to get into golf.
I promise and definitely get into pukalan I know you're like,
why am I talking about history. I want to talk
about my golf course. But let's let's talk about the
competition first. Yes, okay, Let's talk about some of the
more well known golf courses on the island that people
would have heard of them like, oh, yeah, I've been there,
I want I've always wanted to go the type of thing,
and then we'll work our way down to why Pukalani
is so special and excellent.
Speaker 1: Let to talk about.
Speaker 5: You know, Coppola is probably the most popular golf course
here on Mali, just due to the fact that they've
got They used to have fifty four holes. Now there's
only thirty six holes open, okay, but they still host
the Tournament of Champions, which is held everyd January.
Speaker 1: It's the first.
Speaker 5: Tournament for the PGA Tour of the year and it's
just open to the winners of last year's PGA Tour
golf tournaments. So it's quite a star studded field, just
like the Masters. And of course when you turn it
on TV, you see the beautiful golf courses of Coappoloa
and it's it's probably by far the most popular. You've
got kind of Polly which is on the west side
of the island. It used to hold the Skins games
as well as why Leah are great golf courses, fifty
four holes at Wye Leah. But then you've got the
golf courses like Puokalani which you're on the golf course
also which you're not resort type golf courses.
Speaker 1: Puokolani is.
Speaker 5: The upcountry golf course that a lot of the locals
like to come play. We do get some tour coming
out here to play from the resort areas. They drive
from the resort areas, but mainly Pukolani is a diamond
in the rough, I think is a great way to
put it.
Speaker 1: It's not on the beaten path.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, But so you said, we're in the upcountry
on the northern side of the island where most of
the tourist stuff is happening on the southern side.
Speaker 5: Mainly on the southern side or the western side. Yes,
the western side is Coppolua in Conopoli, the southern side
is Wailea, And all of the islands have a nickname
that the locals call them in and Mali is the
Valley Isle, just due to the fact that there is
a valley running right through the middle of the island
and Haleakalach is on one side of the island, which
is which is the side we're on, and then the
West Malai Mountains is on the other side of the island.
There's a big valley down in between the two, so
we're known as the Valley and actually geographically we're pretty
close to the very center of the island.
Speaker 3: Well, you've got some remarkable views of that valley on
the golf course.
Speaker 1: Right, well, you do.
Speaker 5: At twelve hundred feet you can see the Pacific Ocean
on both sides of the island, which is probably the
only golf course that you can have these type of
views at when you play golf on valley.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean you start, whether you're starting on
one or ten, you're looking down towards the Western mountains.
Speaker 5: Right, looking down towards the Western mountains, and then you've
got the ocean on your right and the ocean on
your left.
Speaker 1: So it's beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's breathtaking. And if you have clear skies, there's
still going to be a layer of clouds that are
hugging the mountain side. It seems like absolutely beautiful. Yes,
they still pop over the mountains, still pop over the
top of the cloud.
Speaker 1: We're very fortunate. Maybe we can talk you in a
stand a little bit longer, Fred.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm still looking at it's still gray outs. The
only reason I'd stay is to go watch the big
waves and surfers crash. I think my wife would like
she was generous enough to let me come here without her.
Speaker 5: Please, thank you multiple times, run multiple times.
Speaker 3: So uh I played another course, Maui Nui. Yes, okay,
And that's another locals type of course it is, it
felt more like, to be honest with you, I mean,
I didn't I'm not gonna you know, rag on that
course I played, but that felt more like a muni
and this feel, this has more of a resort feel
to it. This course. I don't know if it's the
maturity of the trees or the views, or even the
condition of the course, which is in great shape, but this,
this place definitely had more of a resort feel than
that course did. Although I play paying uni rates, it
felt like, I mean, I was just so pleased to
not have to succumb to the real high prices of
some of the resort courses.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, there's there's three or four courses here on Mali,
including ourselves in Mali Nui, which you were just mentioning
that you don't have to pay an arm and a
leg to play the resort courses or upwards of two
hundred usually and more and more, and you can.
Speaker 3: Come plays if you're Japanese.
Speaker 5: True, we won't name any names, but in our course
you can come out and play with a golf.
Speaker 1: Cart four hundred, one hundred dollars.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, there's some courses now on the
mainland that are charging about the same rates that are
probably in similar condition, you know. So we feel very fortunate.
The tree are very mature here, the whole course is
very mature. It opened in nineteen eighty and we feel
very fortunate to be a part of this great golf
experience here on mald.
Speaker 3: I live in northern California, just north of San Francisco,
and if we pay less than seventy dollars for a
round of golf on a weekend, we'll talk more about
that than our score, you know. I mean it's like
I only paid sixty five bucks a day.
Speaker 1: Wow, you know they're few and far between now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I shot at sixty, but you know it's not important.
Speaker 5: There was a course record, but you know you got
to pay for sixty five bucks, I mean, yeah, So
I guess the goal on the mainland now is to
shoot lower than the green fee that you paid.
Speaker 3: Not your age, not anymore. So Yeah, that to me
is such a bonus to be able to know about
courses when you're traveling. Sure, you know you'll you'll kind
of set aside if you get the opportunity to play
multiple rounds while you're on vacation. And this is why
my wife didn't come, so that I could play multiple
rounds where I was here. But when you do get
to pay what felt like a reasonable rate, you know,
expect to pay you know, one round at least where
you're going to just go go for it, you know,
and pay the big price. Maybe, But to be able
to play on a course like this is it's not
just a diamond and rough, it's it's a pearl in
the you know, I mean, it's finding something very special
in the treasure box here.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Fred.
Speaker 5: We we we love our course here and we feel
very fortunate to be a part of it.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about the course now, let's get some details.
So now that we've got people intrigued about the idea
of actually coming here, let's talk about the course and
some of the holes, how to play them, and why
this course is so special. But I want to start
with the the golf course architect. Who it is.
Speaker 5: Bob Baldock is our golf course architect. He designed roughly
two hundred courses in his career. Three of them actually
are in Hawaii, and ours one on Kawai as well.
As One on Oahu. Do you know yes, Millie Lani
on Oahu and Kiahuna on Kawaii are the other two
courses that he designed here in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: He's His characteristics that he uses in his course designs
are not extremely deep bumper bunkers, but deep buckers that
start at the green high and are playable. They don't
have a lot of different tongues or anything moving through
the bucker. They're they're pretty wide open bunkers. And what
Bob has has really translated to the golfers is a
very friendly type golf course. We don't have fairway bokers
here at Pookolani Country Club, which very generous fairways, very fairway.
You can stretch it out and play from almost seven
thousand yards from the back tees which is quite a
test or from our forward tees it's close to six
thousand yards and very playable for the higher handicaps that
just want to get out and say they hey, I
played a round of golf in Hawaii, which is really
a neat thing for a lot of our tourists that
come out and play well.
Speaker 3: And you're rating slope is not that high. I mean
your back teas at a one to twenty seven slope
is not you know, it is great for travel golf, right,
because you want to leave a golf course going that
was fun? It didn't you know you hate leaving going Wow?
The course just really beat me up today. I played terribly. Well,
it wasn't so much that you play terribly, is that
the course beat you up?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: I have the course where the where the Tournament of
Champions is hosted, which is the Plantation Course at at Coppoloa.
I very rarely like to go play that course just
due to the fact that when I walk off the course,
I feel like I've been through World War three. It
I walk off the course and I feel like, well,
I just really got beat up when I played that
golf course.
Speaker 1: And at Pookolani you will not experience that.
Speaker 5: You'll you'll walk off the course and you'll say, wow,
what a great time.
Speaker 3: Well, when I walked off the course, I said, can
I play again? I mean literally That's how I felt after.
It was like I enjoyed that so much, I really
can I just go one more time? And you were
very gracious about letting me do that.
Speaker 5: Well, Well, thank you Fred for coming out and playing
to start out with. And I hope you had it
as enjoyable around as you told me you did, and
h hopefully your listeners will stop buying give us a
chance also.
Speaker 3: Well, please, if you do get the chance to come
out here and and meet with Ron and play at Pookolani,
let him know that you heard about it on Golf Smarter.
Ron would love to know that. I would love to
know that, absolutely, Yeah, absolutely, And I know that I've
got a couple listeners I've been talking to that are
just leaving the island now, But if you're planning to
come back, put Pookolani high on the list. Of course,
as you want to play, I'm looking over my scorecard
from the two rounds that I had and the holes
that beat me up the most, or should I go
the holes that I loved, the one I pardon, the
one that I parted and Birdie was number seven, which
is a part four not very long three forty six
that I had.
Speaker 5: It's most of the holes here at Pookolani, Fred, as
you learned from playing yesterday, they either go down the
hill or up the hill.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there are very few level holes in this very
few level holes.
Speaker 1: But you're not really playing any side hill holes, right, which.
Speaker 5: I have a challenge with because the balls either below
you or above you. And with our holes here, you're
either hitting down the mountain or up the mountain usually.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I'm realizing now as you say that,
I only all day. I remember one shot that I
felt like the ball was below my feet and so,
and it was interesting because the reason I remember it
is because it's like, okay, the balls below my feet,
so the ball is going to go off to the right, right.
If the balls below your feet, it's going to go
to the right. So I aim farther left and it
just went left.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the holes you long now, Okay, but
it's true.
Speaker 3: I mean you're going downhill, you're going uphill. It's not
a lot of lies.
Speaker 1: No, there is not in it, which I love. You know.
Speaker 5: That's what Bob took into consideration when he designed the course.
He looked at the longer holes on our scorecard or downhill.
You all the shorter holes are uphill, which is the
way it basically should be. But it levels out to
whereas you're hitting about the same clubs into a lot
of the greens because the yardage plays the same even
though you're going up the mountain or down the mountain.
Speaker 3: Right, except and we're going to go now to whole
number three. Excellent, because that's a downhill short hole.
Speaker 1: It is a downhill short hole.
Speaker 3: Or or now, let's just leave a pause here because
everyone's going.
Speaker 5: Or or or well, Fred Levy, I've got to let
the cat out of the bag.
Speaker 1: We have nineteen greens here.
Speaker 5: At Pukolani Country Club, which is a very unique characteristic
to most for an eighteen whole course. So whole number
three is our signature hole. And just like you were saying,
you can hit it down the hill, which for higher
handicappers may be the play because the green is located
in a canyon and there's no wind, which makes it
very very nice short hole for the higher handicappers to play.
Speaker 3: And it's true to the yardage too, I mean the
one hundred and thirty yards are yeah, around one hundred
yards one hundred and thirty even though it's downhill.
Speaker 5: Play at one hundred and thirty right, downhill play at
one hundred and thirty exactly. Or you've got the opportunity
for the maybe the more advanced players of the lower
handicappers to hit across the gulch, which is all carry
one hundred and forty five yards to the upper green,
which is the nineteenth green on the course. And it
is quite a challenging shot because we do have a
prevailing wind here which is usually about ten to fifteen
miles per hour, and the wind is blowing straight from
left to right. You're hitting across the gulch. Very few
people actually hit this green in regulation, let's see.
Speaker 3: So on my first round I played with my buddy,
we went on the downhill one. He's a higher handicap,
he likes that. And then the when I played in
the afternoon with one of the kids that works here
and two locals, we went across and nobody hit the green. Yeah,
nobody hit the green going across.
Speaker 5: It is a much more difficult hole than one hundred
and forty five yards. On the scorecard plays it out
to be because it is all Carrie right, you're yeah.
Speaker 3: I parred going downhill. I doubled going across.
Speaker 1: We'll stick to the one that goes down the hill.
Speaker 3: No, I want to go back.
Speaker 1: I know I can beat this.
Speaker 3: That's the way love golf. Sure, I know I can
do better, that's right, But so is this just like
does the architect Bob Bodick bowdoc, bowdoc? Does he have
a six sense of humor? Where did that come from?
Is like, let's let's just throw in two greens for
this hole and let people decide for themselves.
Speaker 5: It's very unique because we are the only course that
he is designed that has nineteen really yes, oh wow?
Speaker 1: And uh.
Speaker 5: In fact, to tell you the truth, I can't remember
in my forty five years of playing golf ever playing
a nineteen green golf course before and having the.
Speaker 1: Option to play from one ta to two greens.
Speaker 3: Okay, I actually have one where I play. We have
we have two greens on a par a downhill par
five in Indian Valley. There's there's you know, you can
get there in two on the on the lower one,
or there's an upper one where you've got to really
position yourself.
Speaker 1: So yeah, interesting, it's the first I've heard about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, are yeah, Okay. So it's a fascinating feature and
it really begs you to like, Okay, I hit the
green on the bottom, let's play the other one too.
You can't do that. There's people behind you can't decide
to play both, but we.
Speaker 5: Do ask that everybody in your group hit to the
same green because it can't get kind of chaotic otherwise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true, and it is really pretty when you're
down below too. It's a really pretty little gulch in there.
Speaker 5: It's a little canyon where the green is, and it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: Both shots are beautiful golf shots.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it was really a lot of fun out
there on that and then another hole that I find
real interesting. The views on fourteen. Fourteen was a great
hole as well. Didn't treat me well, but it was
a great No. Fifteen really beat me up.
Speaker 1: For Fourteen's a beautiful par three. Again.
Speaker 5: You can see the ocean on both sides of the
island from that hole when you're up on the green. Yeah,
bring your camera, Yes, please bring your camera.
Speaker 3: And I'll post pictures. I even have some wallpaper for
our premium subscribers, a photograph that will use as a
wallpaper for you to download too. But I got some
photographs that you'll see on the site.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing them on the side.
Speaker 3: All right, Ron, how about a great tip on how
to play the par three number three that has two
different greens.
Speaker 5: Well for the higher handicappers. Of course, going down the hill.
Just like we mentioned a little bit earlier, it is
true yardage, so play it is true yardage just because
you're going down the hill. Don't take any yardage all
for you most likely going to be short of the green.
So that is my tip on how to play the
lower green. Now the upper green, there is a bunker
on a left hand side of the green. The wind
is dominantly going from left to right, and you can't
feel it from the tee, so you have to take
this wind into consideration or you're going to end up
to the right. So they're the bucker on the left again,
I believe is a great aiming point. Aim towards the bunker,
even though you feel like you're going to hit a
straight shot nine times out of ten, you're going to
end up on the green instead of to the right
of the green.
Speaker 3: I wish you'd have told me that before I played it,
because I did end up on the right side of
the well.
Speaker 1: Fred.
Speaker 5: Hopefully tomorrow, if you get a chance to come out
and play your course again, you'll aim at that left
bucker instead of towards the center of the grid.