Every Shot at Tobacco Road | Mike Strantz’s Wild Design in North Carolina
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Course: Tobacco Road Golf Club
Architect: Mike Strantz
Player: William Rainey, Broken Tee Society Member & Photographer (+3.0 HDCP)
Tees: Ripper
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Whoop and an Apple Watch Ultra. This guy is fully dialed.
This will sound crazy but part of the fun of TR is driving the cart thru all the “bunkers”…great round here. Stripe show!
What hat and polo is he wearing?
Love the videos, but I'm a little skeptical of the edit on #7! When he got to the tee I was thinking "there's no way he can hit driver here" and the ball magically appears inches from running through into the muck. Were there some Lahinch forecaddies down on the fairway?
I always go for green on #5 from tee. If I can reach that area I know this guy can. His darn tee shot was pin high right.
How did second shot on #13 end up there? Shot tracer looked like it was on green!
My gosh a -4 round and I would be so pissed off if I had just shot that considering how many greens you hit in perfect spots. A semi hot putter and you are flirting with a sub 60 round!
Plenty of great courses in the area…tot Hill imo is much better than tobacco road…pine needles, mid pines, Talamore…all wonderful courses!
Only played it once and loved it. A very easy course for good players. A couple of strategy errors, but otherwise solid round.
Another great video. Thanks for putting these out there. Also, Hack Motion has been a game changer for my ball striking and eliminating a huge slice with the driver!
jeez. not sure about North Carolina but in South Carolina no freaking way I am hitting that bunker shot out the water. Just asking to get attacked by a gator.
Tell him to smile. Looks like he couldn’t be more miserable being out there.
This should be great validation for a lot of mid to low hcps out there that they dont need a picture perfect swing to be effective. (its a very good swing – don't get me wrong) but he's got total control without a textbook swing. Great work
Q: How many blindshots should we have on the course?
Answer: yes
So good
Hole 14 man… what a shot
This is what it looks like when god gives you a choice between 'fashion sense' and 'a great golf swing'. You chose well my son!
nice to see someone play as well as me….
George Bryan minus the verbal diarrhoea.
I live between Tobacco Road golf course and Quail Ridge golf course but only can afford to play at Quail
Pinehurst #2 hardest golf course to play in NC then Tobacco Road
This is a love it or hate it course. Put me in the camp of hate it. I think it is the most tricked-up fantasy land pretending to be a golf course. I am sorry I wasted my time and money playing this course. If you like this kind of thing there is another Mike S. course called "Tot Hill Farm" in Montgomery County (I believe). When I drove out to look at that course I found the clubhouse but saw no course, wierd.
Dad and I played here about a decade or so ago and got absolutely smoked lol
So how many takes. Fake
Kudos to Craigers.
A genuine pleasure to watch, well done sir.
My jaw dropped at every scene, you truly captured the essence of this elite golf setting, truly a masterpiece of a video and place. Bravo
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Great looking golf course. He played very well. I think it would be nice to know what tees he played. The par 3's were too short to be from the back tees. Some of the holes did not display the yardage. Hitting mid irons into the par 5's…..just saying that perhaps he should have moved back a bit given his skill set and distance off the tee. That said, it was very well done and didn't take two hours to watch. Good work.
I played Tobacco Road a few years back, and wow, it was seriously the most fun I’ve ever had on a golf course! I’m already looking forward to hitting the links there again.
What a concept, minimal talking good golfers golfing, shot to shot highlights, chill vibe – nice!
Also loved the realtime stroke play counter, club & yardage top right. Very nice touch
I never saw them repair a single divot. Hmmmm…
Opening drive was 343 yards?!
Great looking course…golf booorrriiinng.😊
I played there two weeks ago…the greens were perfect!
the draw on this guy is unreal
It’s a Shame the Course has Gotten Ridiculously Expensive..Played it Bunch of Times over the Years…Haven’t been in long time…
The hole flyovers were all 1 hole ahead 😬 But other than that sick video! Cant wait to get back down there.
what an amazing course
dude had a chance to be like 10 under and was so close lol
This is sick