[PWRichard]

So I went to a wedding in Winston Salem, NC on saturday and played the Championship Course of Tanglewood Park, this is a Robert Trent Jones Course and you could tell because it had 106 bunkers on it. Needless to say I quickly learned how to play out of bunkers. So I get to the 17th hole which is a par 5. it read 540 yards and you could not see the landing area. Just aim for the middle and hope it goes straight. I took out my driver and bombed away straight down the fairway. All I can think about is JB and TC talking about playing to a number, so I say....I am going to play to a number depending on how far out I am. Upon arriving to my ball I see I am 225 yards out but more importantly I see this......



Its prob a little difficult for you to see because I took this pic with my phone and said JB and TC are gonna love this...from 100 yards in it was NOTHING BUT BUNKERS!!!.....6 Bunkers surrounded this green so I was thinking, man if I lay up like my some guys/girls on this site talk about then I still have to deal with these bunkers. So I decided to hit my hybrid 3, I choked down on it and fired away. I ended up in the bunker on the right side of the green, pin high. I got out of the bunker and 2 putted for a par. Needless to say, I sure was pretty happy with this outcome. Check out the link to the course and do the virtual tour of the course....it is hole 17.

http://www.forsyth.cc/parks/tanglewo...f/default.aspx

[PWRichard]

There are better pics on the website

[invasuant]

i still would've laid up and happily walked away with my birdie!!!! no way i'd ever go at that sucker, way too much trouble for me.

mr. jones is an evil man!

[PWRichard]

With my short game? hahaha, I was in a bunker after my second, not my third! so I figured I was ahead

[invasuant]

With my short game? hahaha, I was in a bunker after my second, not my third! so I figured I was ahead

yeah, laying up to a number might not be your strong suit......yet!!!

[VewCoorkPow]

I would have cried when I saw that green. Well not literally but I would have known for sure no matter what I did I would be in one of those nasty bunkers. Golf is hard enough why torture us like that! It does look like a beautiful course, though, congrats on making par on that hole.

[gortusbig]

106 BUNKERS!!! Holy crap, I don't like playing in the sand that much!

[muytreda]

The worst bunker course I have ever played in my life was the George Fazio down at Hilton Head. I swear that thing had bunkers at every single point you would hit to for all tee boxes. Greens 4 sided with bunkers and traps 5 feet deep. Sounds like this one is about the same but I've played Bermuda Run a few years ago and I know how nice those courses are around there. I'm sure it was a fun time.

[xT0U3UGh]

Wow 106! That is a lot. A couple weekends ago the course I played had 120!!! I was only in 4 of them I think. And I agree with One-T... I always go for it.

[invasuant]

Wow 106! That is a lot. A couple weekends ago the course I played had 120!!! I was only in 4 of them I think. And I agree with One-T... I always go for it.

i would probably go for it more often if i was as long as you two off the tee, but wedges are my strong suit.

[janeemljr]

I think those bunkers would have made me lay up... I would probably play to 120 and take full PW.

Nice looking course though! Seems like they do a good job maintaning it!

[mybooboo]

i played the tpc vb (now called vb national)... it has a gazillion bunkers and i was in every single one of them... this surfer hates sand

[PWRichard]

Oh, I had already done the layup thing on another Par 5...I hit the green in reg, but I 3 putted....dang it!!! so really other than the 3 putt, the outcome was still the same. I think I was in 15 of those bunkers all day. None of them were fairway bunkers and I ended up on the green from all of them. I was soo happy with that outcome because I never get to practice out of bunkers. GG, I will say I stood there in awwww (as in awww sh*$ ) what do I do next....hahaha

[dserbokim]

I don't think i would have had the guts to go for it. I would probably have laid up and then short ironed it in...to one of the bunkers...haha

[VewCoorkPow]

Oh, I had already done the layup thing on another Par 5...I hit the green in reg, but I 3 putted....dang it!!! so really other than the 3 putt, the outcome was still the same. I think I was in 15 of those bunkers all day. None of them were fairway bunkers and I ended up on the green from all of them. I was soo happy with that outcome because I never get to practice out of bunkers. GG, I will say I stood there in awwww (as in awww sh*$ ) what do I do next....hahaha

I don't practice enough out of bunkers either and I have the hardest time getting out of them. Our home course has a ton of bunkers and I get more sand in my hair, mouth, and down my shirt than I get behind the ball to get me out of the bunker. I jump up and down like a giddy school girl everytime I get out of a bunker on the first try.

[xT0U3UGh]

i would probably go for it more often if i was as long as you two off the tee, but wedges are my strong suit.

Fair enough. I have been "One-T's Old Name" ing lately. So the closer the better!

[PWRichard]

I don't practice enough out of bunkers either and I have the hardest time getting out of them. Our home course has a ton of bunkers and I get more sand in my hair, mouth, and down my shirt than I get behind the ball to get me out of the bunker. I jump up and down like a giddy school girl everytime I get out of a bunker on the first try.

hahahaha, so does my brother! just kidding

[PWRichard]

Fair enough. I have been "One-T's Old Name" ing lately. So the closer the better!

good thing you didnt use the word!

[SodeSceriobia]

I think I would have gone Gw - GW. That is a scary sight! Congrats on the up and down.

[lomonel]

I would have probably grabbed the hybrid out of the bag and fired away like you did. If I were to lay up I would have probably hit the closest bunker and end up in every one of them after that before making it to the green.