Can I Break the Course Record at Tiger Woods’ Course?

Can I Break the Course Record at Tiger Woods’ Course?

This is without a doubt the best round I’ve ever posted on YouTube. No one’s going to believe I just made two eagles in a row. Today I’m at Payne’s Valley, a course designed by none other than Tiger Woods. This place has hosted legends like Roy Moy, Justin Thomas, Justin Rose, and of course, the goat himself. With my game trending upward and a course that suits me perfectly, I set my sights on a course record 61. So, I guess uh we’ve got a pretty good feel for what this course is like right now. So, I have what it takes. Come on, baby. Let’s find out. All right, here we go. Ho one. 483 from the Tiger TE’s. Got a one iron here. Just want to get a ball in play. We should still have a wedge in because it’s really downhill. should be all right. So, not a bad drive here up the left side. We got 163 left. Pretty downhill. So, this ball is going to come off low. So, I’m going to do a choke down 48. Aim a little bit left of this pen. So, that’s pretty much the plan. It’s pretty much the exact line I want. We’ll see if it’s the right yardage. Oh, yeah. That’s good. Should come right back down. Perfect. So, that was perfectly played there. I was able to use that slope. Those are the shots I need to be hitting if I want to be able to play with the best players in the world. It’s pretty simple. So, the goal is to be able to do that more often every day. Good start. Only took three hits. All right, so we’re off to a good start. Um, it’s going to be a tough course, though. Got some really long par 3es and uh a lot of really crazy things coming up. So, it’ll be a good challenge. Yeah, we we’ll see how our game is looking, but uh it’s a promising start for sure. And I just need to be able to string holes together like that. We’ll be good. All right, on to hole two. 253 at the pin. A little downhill. I want to say wind’s a little bit off the left. So, we’re going to go and take a 7 iron here. I think there’s a bit of a a mound that splits the green. So, if I can get to land on top of that and slide to the left towards the pin, that’d be ideal. But definitely want to aim for the center of the green here. That is not good. Quick from the top there. All right. Well, I’m going to go with a bump and run here. Just try to scoot it up that slope. Don’t quite know the green here too well, but I feel like that’s our highest percentage shot. Try to land it at that base of that hill. Get a little good bounce. Stay up. All right, on hole three, 320 to the pin. Bit of a slight win in my face, so don’t know if I can quite get there with the one iron, but I mean, I’m going to aim right in between the right edge of that trap and the pin on the right. And if we get around that green, that would be a good good shot. Stayed above that trap. That’s all I wanted. It’s a It’s a good shot. So, we got a bit of a tight lie here. It’s pretty grainy here as well. So, what I’m going to do is tow down and just try to let that let the wrist release. And what I’m trying to figure out is how stiff that grain is short of the grain. It’s kind of a bit of an experiment, but I’m going to go with the 56. Landed about 5T short of that front edge with a little with a have a little bit of spin. It’s going to be launching low. And we’ll see. We’ll see what this does. Come on, baby. Boom. So, I guess uh we’ve got a pretty good feel for what this course is like right now. That was a total guess, but sometimes you guess right. It’s a pretty good experiment. Well, you know, I I just didn’t know how much it would dig. Sometimes, uh like especially like South Florida, that ball could bounce straight up and go one foot from where it landed. And like in northern courses where it’s a little bit, you got like bent grass stuff that’s a little weaker, it can just skip all the way through the green. So, I’m just trying to figure out exactly what type of grain we’re working with up here so I can have that as a reference point for the rest of the round. That’s why that’s why Tour Pros will get go to a course like 6 days ahead of time and figure it out because grain is everything. Okay, so round hole four, 544. The plan here is to go just right at that blue T right there over that right fairway trap. We can do that and hit a good drive. We’re literally going to have about probably 120 yards left in this par five. Just like that. That’s going to be deep. So, that was a good T-shot there. I actually also hit a one iron as well. I’m trying to get as many reps in as I can with that one iron. It’s been really great lately. So, I might throw the wherever that one iron ends up, I might throw that in the camera. Going to probably hit that approach shot as well for you guys to check out. In all honesty, I probably would, if I was in a ter probably would hit one iron here, just because with one iron, I’m completely eliminating trouble with if I So, with driver in that hole, if I were to pull it pretty bad, I could definitely get in some trouble. But like with one iron, I could block it, pull it, do whatever I want. I’m still going to be fine and still have a 200 yard shot into a par five. So, it’d be a tough call, but that would probably be what I would do in a tournament. Yeah, like just trying to hit as many shots as I can. Try to figure out how to play his course and yeah, we’ll see where the balls end up. All right, so I got 134 left. You can actually So, I actually did hit um my I hit a one iron as I explained the cart cam. I had like 190 left and I put a 48 to that fat part of the green. That is the one big difference is so I’m 130 here, 190 there. 190 I got to play to a certain spot. 130 I can now try to get a little more aggressive. That is the one benefit of hitting it further. So riskreward as always. So 134 wind’s probably helping about 3 to 5 miles an hour. It’s downhill so it’s going to come out a little hot. And one other thing when you when you’re playing I believe this is Zoya. I’m not sure, but I do know the ball is teed up. And when the ball’s got a is is sitting up higher, it’s got a higher center of gravity. So the golf will actually go a little further if it’s sitting on a very tight firm fairway. So, I’m playing this at about 124, but um the actual yard is 134. I got a 60°ree wedge in hand. It’s got some spin. Oh, yeah. See how low that came out? And you got to play for that because when you have a lower launch angle, the golf ball is going to have less time to spin and fall sharp. So when that happens, it’s going to land shallow and it’s going to roll and carry a lot further. So if I’m hitting a shot from here and let’s just say this is a level shot and I want my ball position here. This fairway is actually closer to me and so I can end up bodying out too early. So, not only when you have a down slope do you have to play for come out lower just by itself, but you also are going to want to play it further back in your stance to account for that that um that ground being a little closer to you, which is going to have you hit it to the right and it’s going to come out even lower. So, when I have these super downhill shots, I like to aim about 1 to 2% left of my actual target and just play it as a much lower shot. And so, right here, I was aiming at that pin. What I would want it to do is come out about five five feet right give me a little bit of room and just play it as that same shot and your miss will be right. You can kind of take out missing left which is always a good thing. All right. Well, you can see even though that was a really low shot, I still got a lot of spin and it was able to hold. And this is I would consider a perfect shot because you can’t you got you just don’t have enough room to really try to land it on that crown. just it’s not worth trying to get it within a couple feet. Flying it here, you’re clearing that that front edge by a good 20 25 ft. You’re giving yourself a little room for margin and you also still have room to hold it and keep it on the green. So, I’ll consider it a very well executed shot. We’re on fire today. No one’s going to believe I just made two eagles in a row. All right, so we got 184 here. Gentle breeze into the face and take a pitchery wedge. Take a little bit off of it. And I’m going to play this a good 20 ft 25 ft left of the pin. Center mass of the green is what I’m looking for here. Just don’t get too cute. And that is something I really have to work on is to stop getting greedy when I’m playing away from the pin. Just play for a safe shot and move on. See, it’s the right yardage. It’s not a It’s It’s a good result, but I’m honestly not happy with that shot because I just keep getting greedy with these pins. And you really really need to be hitting this. It’s hard to see in the distance. There’s like a telephone pole way out there. You really need to be hitting it at at that line. And I just keep doing small stuff subconsciously. to try to kind of inch my golf ball towards these pins. Because what can happen with that shot very easily if you get into that habit, if I’m a little bit late on it, it is not very hard for that ball to keep wiping to the right and hit that bank and go in the water for a completely unforced error. A T as a ball marker is diabolical. Yeah. Got to use what you got. Got to use what you have. Was not prepared. Just use the towel. You can actually use your foot. So by the rules of golf, you can use literally you can use your putter as long as it’s a object that is identifiable and distinct. You can mark it with anything. So there’ll be people in the old times like you could there’s footage of old back in like in the 60s 50s people will do this. They would do it like this. Let someone putt out and then they put the mark back down because for the longest time in pro golf, you couldn’t mark your ball. If you guys ever didn’t know that, look up the word sty and golf and you’ll see some really interesting stuff on YouTube because back in the day, you would actually have to chip over someone’s ball if the ball was in front of you. So, it was a real strategy to be able to putt out first because it eliminated the chance of a sty, but you could sty someone else. Little firm. It’s a tough hole. Okay, on to hole six. 444. Going to play three iron here. It’s 330 to that trap. So, I’m going to play three iron. I should say just up short of that trap. Should leave me about 150 to this pin. It’s a little right, but I think there’s room. Yep, we’re fine. Not a bad angle. So, got 139 left. Still into a gentle breeze, but I think it’s offset by that downhill grade. So, I think this plays about 138, 137. So, I’m going to choke down a couple wraps on the sand wedge and just try to play a slight slight draw. Flight it down a fraction. And um I I don’t think it should be at too much of a risk of spinning back too much. I think it’ll hold fairly well. So, see what we can do with this. It’s trying to cut through the wind. I don’t know if it’ll make it all the way back there. Stop. Yeah, that was tough because it’s a bit of an uphill slope. I tried to punch down. Wind gusted fraction right when I hit it. Still not bad. It’s probably about a 25 footer. I was just explaining to my guy that um so this was the shot you guys saw on camera. That was a choke down 56. And that’s the um a flighted 48. I’m still not quite comfortable with shorter half swings. That’s going to be a weapon when I am comfortable with it because notice how it pitched and ran forward. It didn’t spin back. There’s a lot of circumstances in golf where you don’t want a ball to spin back. And when you can have that shot, especially into a headwind, you’re you’re very dangerous. Very happy with that lag putt. All right. So, we’re on hole seven, 368. And so, here’s what I’m going to do because I know you guys I don’t want you guys falling asleep. So, I’m going to hit the seven. It’ll leave me about 100 yards left. But, I also hit the big stick and we’ll see what we can do cuz this is a drivable hole. So, give you guys the best of both worlds. Just like that. Wish I would hit that one on hold, too. 360 uphill. So it should be right on my number with the uphill grade. So pin is just left of that far trap. Let’s see. Little left. Probably okay though. Okay. So we got 142. It’s plain 150. Little bit confused on how to play this cuz I got to have it come in a little high cuz it’s so uphill. Thinking a full sandwich. We do have mud on the opposite side of this ball which is going to affect spin a little bit. So that’s something else I got to keep in mind. That’s it. Let’s see. I saw it balance. So see if it’s the right number. I don’t know. I have no idea. Duke’s waiting for us to clear the green. Heavy hitter. And guys, FYI, this is my drive right here. So, I mean, not a bad leave. You know, it’s kind of a 50/50 call for me on whether I would hit drive or iron here. Just depends on kind of how I’m feeling with each club. But I mean, either way you slice it. Two good birdie opportunities. Wow, that snaps. That was exactly what I wanted to hit. Just broke a little more on me than I expected. One thing I will say, you have absolutely no excuse if you miss a put on these greens. These are some of the purest greens I’ve ever puted on. And I will say like I really think that matters for something because what it does when you’re on pure greens, you start seeing that pure roll. You start getting a lot more relaxed, more comfortable. When you’re in that mindset, you make a lot of good putts. Okay. So again, this is one of those holes where I’d be conflicted between hitting one iron and driver. So I’m going to play my one iron, but I also hit the driver for you guys as well. So I’m going to try to place just uh just left of that little white T marker there. Maybe we’ll use the big stick as well. So, we’re able That’s why I wanted to hit the one cuz I felt like I could still clear clear that uh bunker without bringing anything into play. But, we’ll bomb it, too. See what we can do. So, for this one, I’m going to want to go just a little more right. So, straight off the left edge of that trap. That should be good. It should stay just short of that stuff on the right. Yeah, should be fine. So, 245. My drive is in good shape, too. It’s just over that trap. It’s It’s on the right edge of the fairway. You can’t see it, but it’s just over that trap. But this was definitely the play because it keeps me short of, you know, the trouble there and I can carry this trap. So, it was a good play. So, got 245 left a little downhill into the face wind. So, I got a sixiron and really going to try to stay patient on the takeaway. Make a smooth swing. And I mean, there’s really no reason to not go right at this pin, but I might just play a fraction to the left as well. See if it’s the right distance. kind of lost it when it landed. This is where my drive ended up, which is kind of funny because it’s actually not in bad shape. I just got to hit it under a tree and slice it. So, got 190 7 iron. You might as well just film from out there and catch it as it’s slicing back cuz I won’t be able to see where this ball goes. tried. I think that’s in that valley long. All right. So, somehow went long. I thought it just the that that ball must just cut through that wind too much. Wasn’t a bad shot. One club too much. So, need about a 15 16 yard carry here. We can get a little spin on this. Have a good chance getting close if we can get that touch dialed. It’s not bad. I got a little lazy with that ball rolling off the face, but not too bad. Can’t believe it’s that slow. All right, on the hole nine. Got 430. I’m got the one iron here. My target is going to be the right tree line of that. We’re at super dark tree. Anything right there. We should should have about 100 left. It’s a good T- shot here. Just like that. That’s going to be really far. Yeah, we’re going to have less than 100, so we’ll be in prime position. All right, we got 114 right up the middle of the fairway. Pin is four paces off the back edge. So, I’m going to fly this. I’m going to fly this 112. I’m going to try to land it right at the pin. 112. Let it spin back a bit. Leave myself 12 to 15 ft uphill below the pin. A little bit left of it. That’s kind of my my goal here. Oh, nope. Sit. I changed my line the last second. I turned it a little further to the right. So, that last look at the putt, I saw that hill really pulling it. So, I made the difference. And that’s the scale of green reading right there. All right, on to hole 10. Very pretty hole. 183 plane about 160. So, I mean, obviously you can go right at this pin. I’m going to take a little bit off of a gap wedge to flight this down a bit to kind of counteract how exposed it’ll be to the wind with how much of a down slope we have. See if we can give ourselves a good look at birdie. We’ll see. Surprised he just stopped there, but we’ll take it. That’s definitely the hardest part about this hole is getting the right yardage. So, I’m really happy with that one. I hit that one way too hard, but luckily caught the cup. Man, these greens can get quick. I’ll tell you what. That’s probably like a 4% slope I was putting down. All right, on hole 11, 429. Go with the one iron here. Make my target a tower. There’s a tower in that backdrop behind those trees right at that little draw would be good. So, all shot here should leave us a little over 100 left. wiped it a little bit, but we’re just short of that trap, so okay. Okie dokie. So, I got 145 left. Just a fraction of mud on the ball, and I’ll be hitting that ball. So, this is going to spin just a little bit less than it normally would. And the ball speed’s going to be a little less as well. But net, this should pick up about 3 to four yards on on my stock shot. So, my stock, you know, grip down sand wedge goes 140. This pin’s 145. So, it should be pretty close to pin high if I hit this properly. So, bear with me though because I’m still learning how to play this game. So, I might be wrong, but my best educated guess, but we’ll see. It’s okay. I mean, probably landed three yards short of where I wanted it to, but that’s a very safe defensive shot because you don’t want to go longer spin. So, all I want to do there, don’t leave myself much meat on the bone. I think one iron is going to be a fraction long. And I think three iron is going to be a fraction short, but I think it can get up there with the right kick. So, I’m going to go with the three iron here. This helping wind will definitely help with pushing it down there. and uh aim right in between those two bunkers behind the green. Play a little draw. It’s got to go. Oh my gosh. That is That was so close to being money. All right, so a little bit of a tough break. Just a little short. Kind of fell off to the side. Not a bad shot though at all. Still a great line. I caught it a fraction high in the face, so it’s probably the difference. So we got uh little shot up the hill. I’m going to go high here. Got about 12 yard carry. Try to put a little spin on it. See if we can give ourselves a look at birdie. Not a bad shot. And I mean, I really was trying. It’s kind of about what I was trying to do. It just really dug in on that first bounce. Still got to wave the three. It’s probably one of my better putts of the day. Okay, so we’re on hole 13, the 640 yard par five. Now, this is another decision-making conundrum. So, this is this hole is wide enough for me to hit driver. The issue is if I’m off, I’m routine. And if I hit one iron, I can still get to the green and two with a second with a with my second shot most likely. So, it really depends on how I’m feeling. I’m going to go with the one iron, but I’m also going to hit driver. I’m actually curious to see how these two balls will play. So, we’ll see what this does. Just like that. That should chase out there fairly decent. Yeah. So, that’s a good good spot. We’ll see what the driver does. And for the driver, I’m going to favor a little more on the right. So, the left edge of that trap on the right. That’s perfect. Right up the middle. So, in this case, driver was definitely the play for sure. Okay. So, this is the scoring ball. I want to reiterate what I’m going to do. I think it’ be really interesting. So, my drive is up there and I’m going to play both balls down. I’ll be very curious to see how these scores shake out. I have about 340 to depend 330. Going to be tough to get there. I kind of discounted how uphill the shot was. Definitely can get there with this ball. I can get this one within probably 30 20 yards of the green. Come on. Go. It’s about as good as I can hit it. So, we’ll probably have about a 20 30 yard pitch, maybe a little more. So, on the driver, you still have almost 300 yards left. Going to go with the same club and play just to the center of the green. See if we can get it on the surface. It’s a little left of the green, but I should be fine as long as I hit the maintenance guy. All right, so 66. You can see my ball right there. So that actually is about pin high. So I definitely had the stick to get to this green and two. Those are I would say these are pretty equal spots right now, which is pretty interesting. I got 66 here. So I want to There’s a crown and then I want to land it and just get it to trickle down past that pins kind of down in that goalie. I have a little bit of mud on the left side of this golf ball. It’s going to take off a fraction of spin and the ball’s going to want to go this way a little bit. So, I have to keep that in mind. But, yeah, it’s just kind of a basic pitch shot. Don’t try to do too much with it. Can’t tell. That might be a little short. Don’t know if it quite got all the way down there. This is going to be a really tricky shot here. I’m gonna try to fly this on in the green and then just get a ton of backspin on it. That’s just a tough shot. Not much more I could have done there. This is the difference where the reward was hitting the green, but I left myself and I definitely a much harder shot here than I left myself there. And that’s why it’s not just bombs away all the time. All these things you got to factor in from the T- box all the way through the green. You got to be thinking about these things because that was a very good shot that I could have easily left short or easily hit off the green. From there, I would say was a very average shot that would have been almost impossible for me to really get in trouble with. should straighten out the end. Really, really thought that one was going to claw back on the left side, but honestly, two fives here are not bad. Not bad at all. All right, onto the 14th 420 par4. Going to play three iron. I’m going to work it off those the left edge of that trap. We got to go in here. Should give us about 130 left. Should stay left of those traps. Yep, perfect. Just didn’t have the three yard draw I wanted, but still thing stayed left. All right, so there’s a good T- shot there. This pin is diabolical. It’s about probably three paces off the back, 130. So I’m going to be trying to hit about a 126 127 yard shot and just leave myself 15 ft under the pin. So I got gap wedge. This will be a bit of a flighted down shot to try to knock it down a little bit. That’s a bad shot. Just got under it. This was a good miss. So that’s that’s a positive. Being right at this green that way is not good. So this was a good miss if you’re going to miss the shot. So So we got uh going hit a 56 here. I want to carry this about six paces onto the green and let it move left to right. Should do that quite a bit. Just cozy it on up there. Great chip. All right, on hole 15, 456 from the Tiger TE’s. Got three iron in hand. Going to hit it right at the left edge of that trap on the right. Don’t try to do too much of this. Just make a good swing. Probably about 10 yards left where I’d like it to be. Just probably give us a few more yards into the hole, but should be good. Okay, so 159 playing at 163. Gonna do a slight choke down gap wedge. Play this just a little left of that pin. I really want to discipline myself to play left of this pin because everything feeds to the right. So that’s my goal. See if we can put a good good swing on this one. I just hate the fact that I cannot play safe. Okay, so we’re on the 16th hole. Definitely a fun looking par three. Pin is 240. It’s playing about 30 yards downhill. I’m hitting nine iron. I want to put this right center of the green, maybe 20 ft short of the pin in the right center of the green. myself about a 30 40 footer. That’s the plan. Hit wheels. Watch this one. All right. So, I’m going want to carry this about 15 16 paces. Yeah. About 14 yard carry here. Just focus on a solid strike. Don’t try to do too much with it. I’m going to play a little right of this flag. It’s totally fine. Just don’t want disaster in this hole from here. I cannot believe that lipped in. I’m getting all the brakes today. That putt started taking off on me too on the last like 3 ft. Go with the one iron here. Yes, this hole is wide open. Yes, it’s probably a driver, but honestly, I don’t know why. I’m just feeling a fraction uncomfortable with my driver today. And it’s really a feel thing. I’m a fraction uncomfortable with it. So go with whatever you’re comfortable with and whatever you’re not comfortable with. Work on it until you’re comfortable with it. It’s been a while since we’ve gone to the cart cam, but a little update. Feeling good. Feeling like I’m striking the ball pretty good. Still trying to settle into my swing. Um I definitely do do still feel moments of unease over the ball, but overall really hard to complain about really anything today. I’m I’m sure I’ll find a way though. But yeah, got about a hole and a half left. Really beautiful course. Hope you guys are enjoying the video. I mean, this place is so nice and the greens are rolling so um absolute treat being out here. All right, so we got 141 left to the pin. So, I’m land in the face. So, I’m I’m going to take the 52. I’m going to choke down pretty good. Just try to bring something in just a little bit from the right. It’s going to probably land a little deep. I don’t hate that. I just want it to um hold a little bit past the pin. That’s the goal. Wow. All righty on hole 18. Normally the last hole around, but today it is not. There’s a 19th hole that I know you guys are excited to see coming up shortly. But we got the one iron here. My target’s going to be the right edge of that really far fairway fairway bunker. Right at that, we should be in good shape. See if we got away with it. So, definitely not a good T- shot. Um, pretty conf I went in there. So, taking a line of the where I entered back a little bit so I can get to some a flatter lie. I have 248 to the pin. The pin is on a back shelf. I think the wind’s helping off the right. Just trying to figure out if I should play eight or nine here with how far I think this is going to go. I really think this can jump on me pretty good. And you don’t want to be deep. So, I’m gonna play a nine. Play it to the center of the green. Just give myself a putt. That’s the goal. You cannot be serious. Love to know how that ball moved right to left. All right. It was a really tough miss here, but I can hold it on the screen. Just got to make a very trusty swing. Just get the land just over that lip. It’s not bad. That was a very scary shot. I’m really glad I did end with two bogeies there. That was a really, really good save. So, well, that was a fun 18 holes. We’re about to go to hole 19. I’m excited to show you guys what that looks like. I’m sure some of you have already seen it. Going to be hidden from there. There’s a green that little valley there. It’s pretty sick. I actually played this when I played this course the first time in 2020. It just opened. So, the um the course didn’t really have the properties. It was just barely built. So, this is my first time seeing it kind of fully refinished. So, I’m pretty excited to see what it looks like. And also, you get $1,000 if you hit make a hole in your first try. So, could always use another band in my pocket. So, we’ll try it. All right. Onto the 19th hole. Got 84 yards. Put it just right at the pin. It’s all about a touch. It’s a touch shot here. So, see what we can do. and just got away from me a little bit. It’s crazy how short 84 yards really is, especially off of T. tough four. Well, guys, that was 18 holes. Well, 19 holes of Payne’s Valley. You know what more can I say? Beautiful day. incredible golf course. I mean, I had a ton of fun. I hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I did enjoyed playing it, but uh yeah, it was a really good challenge. I feel like my game’s progressing. Just got to work on managing my body a little more and managing my misses. I think that’s definitely some low hanging fruit. And uh stay tuned for some more golf vlogs, some more tournament vlogs, and some other cool random stuff. So, if you enjoyed it, please be sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel, check out Payne’s Valley, and um Big Cedar Lodge. They have I think it’s like four or five courses in this area. All of them are gems. So check them out. See you guys later. Thanks for watching.

This is without a doubt the best round I’ve ever posted on my channel.

Today I’m playing Payne’s Valley, the incredible course designed by Tiger Woods himself. With my game trending upward, I set out to do something special — attempt to break the course record of 61.

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