HOD 11/25/12: Walnut Ridge in Johnston (Des Moines), Iowa

[Efan08]

short: C-PD
long: flippy star destroyer

[yangs1]

Long: GL Saint
Short: Valkyrie

[grodney]

Something is jacked up with the map and the distances. Nobody from Des Moines in here? Oh well, no biggie.

[Discette]

Champion Valkyrie from either tee.

[garublador]

Originally Posted by Fishy

looks fairly straight forward. and fairly boring. about the only thing I see going for it is the long position and that it's green.
thinking from long would be RHFH Gazzelle out into the open with fade into the clearing, finish up with whatever seems appropriate.
short would be... walk back to the long position to make the hole interesting.

You'd be surprised. I find this hole to be surprisingly difficult. The hill is just steep enough to be annoying and those branches don't always stay where they're supposed to so the gap from the long tee is harder than it looks. A worm burner that hits the hill is really hard to recover from and hitting any branches is probably worse. There are several trees scattered around after the gap so you aren't guaranteed to have a look at the basket even if you make it past the gap. You have to be both pretty good at line shaping and familiar with the hole to have any chance of a birdie and you need to be pretty good at controlling how high you throw just to get a decent lie for a second shot. Those both assume the wind is cooperating.

I usually throw a Gazelle and hope for the best.

[Crazy Runner Guy]

Originally Posted by garublador

You'd be surprised. I find this hole to be surprisingly difficult. The hill is just steep enough to be annoying and those branches don't always stay where they're supposed to so the gap from the long tee is harder than it looks. A worm burner that hits the hill is really hard to recover from and hitting any branches is probably worse. There are several trees scattered around after the gap so you aren't guaranteed to have a look at the basket even if you make it past the gap. You have to be both pretty good at line shaping and familiar with the hole to have any chance of a birdie and you need to be pretty good at controlling how high you throw just to get a decent lie for a second shot. Those both assume the wind is cooperating.

I usually throw a Gazelle and hope for the best.

Further proof that tunnel shots are one of the hardest shots to execute.

[Rocaholic74]

Short: depending on wind it could either be the Ion or a powered down roc

Long: either throw my eagle or try the Saint

[whitefedora]

teebird rhbh- finish with rhyno unless I hit that first branch. Then I'll probably throw a hornet low and to the right and let it fade in. Then finish with a rhyno.

[Scared_Discless]

Short: FD
Long: P-PD

[rd.bittle]

Short no wind: 180g DX Shark. Hyzer flipped to slight turnover/ straight
Short headwind: RHFH 162g ESP Surge

Long no wind: RHFH same Surge
Long Headwind: RHFH Star Kenny Wraith