Chapter 366: Hole-In-One
The Grandmaster pulled out a shorter nine-iron from his club bag and stood next to the ball. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
According to golf rules, a player is only allowed to carry a maximum of fourteen clubs during the game. How to choose these fourteen clubs depends on the characteristics of each player.
Speaking of clubs, there are different uses for this thing. As we often say, wood and iron, the use is actually very simple. Woods are used to hit long shots, and irons are used to hit mid-range balls.
There are generally three types of woods, which are the first wood, the third wood, and the fifth wood. All things being equal, the smaller the number of clubs, the farther the ball will fly. Therefore, the vast majority of players will choose the driver for the tee when they need to play for a long time.
There are many types of irons, from No. 2 iron to No. 9 iron, a total of eight types. Generally speaking, under all things being equal, the lower the number of irons, the farther the ball will be hit, and the higher the number of irons, the closer the ball will be and the higher the arc. Under the same conditions, the second iron will definitely be farther than the nine iron, but the arc of the ball hit by the nine iron will definitely be greater than that of the second iron.
In addition to woods and irons, there are also special clubs such as pitching wedges, bunker shafts, high-lift wedges, and putts.
There are so many types of clubs in order to give players more options when facing different balls.
The main reason why the Grandmaster chose the nine-iron to open this shot is because the distance between the green and the tee area is only more than 200 yards, and the ball needs a larger arc and height, plus the Grandmaster himself has a strong explosive power, he is completely sure that he can hit more than 200 yards with the nine-iron, and ensure that the flight path of the ball is high enough.
If it were a different person, I am afraid that I would not dare to use a nine-iron to hit this shot.
Even the pros, in the vast majority of cases, will not be able to hit more than 200 yards with a nine-iron. Not to mention ensuring the height and arc of the ball when flying.
It is not the "heavy gunner" like the grandmaster who can easily drive more than 400 yards with a driver that dares to play like this.
Seeing that the Grandmaster's position was not in the direction of the fairway, His Royal Highness King Wen asked strangely, "Master, what do you want to do?" The fairway is over there, you should tee the ball over there. ”
However, when King Wen saw that the Grandmaster was adjusting his body posture, he slapped his head and shouted very ungracefully, "Oh hell, do you want to try to attack the green directly?"
The Grandmaster raised his head slightly and looked at King Wen and said, "Third Uncle, isn't it good to attack the green directly here? Look at the design of this fairway, which guy designed the fairway? Isn't there a lake between the green and the tee? Can't you attack the green directly? I don't think there is any difficulty in this." Instead, having me tee down the fairway, hit the ball to the north, and then hit the ball from the north to the south, made me feel even more bored. ”
Xiao Zhengtai next to him also slapped his head and said, "Master, it's not right for you to play like this, you should play along the fairway." ”
The Grandmaster tilted his head and asked, "Your Highness the Crown Prince, is it illegal for me to attack the green directly?"
Xiao Zhengtai was choked and muttered: "Of course it's not a violation, I just want to remind you that it is quite difficult to attack the green so directly, and if you don't pay attention to it, the ball will fly into the lake......
"Oh...... Thank you, Your Highness the Crown Prince!" said the Grandmaster with a slight smile, and then continued to adjust the angle of his body.
King Wen and Xiao Zhengtai glanced at each other, and they both found that each other's faces were all ghostly.
It's not that the direct attack on the green is not successful, but the sixth hole seems to have left a huge hole left by the designer, but King Wen, who knows this course very well, knows that the design of the sixth hole is not so much a hole as a huge trap.
That is, the golf course in the Royal Annex, which is not open to the public, otherwise if it is open to the public and undertakes the China Tour or PGA events, then the players who suffer on the sixth hole may have to be caught a lot.
Even if the grandmaster is clever enough to switch to a nine-iron with a 46-degree angle on the clubface, even if he can hit the ball over the lake of more than 200 yards with the strength of the grandmaster, it is definitely not so easy to really keep the ball on the green.
Well, since the Grandmaster wants to play, let's try it, and it's not an official tournament anyway.
Thinking of this, as soon as King Wen pulled Xiao Zhengtai, the two of them flashed to the side and watched the grandmaster open the ball.
Between the tee and the green on the sixth hole was a lake more than 200 yards wide, and it was afternoon, and although it was close to the sea, the wind was very light. There is hardly a ripple on the clear surface of the lake, and the quiet water of the lake is like a huge mirror, reflecting the blue sky and white clouds in the sky, and the row of large trees next to the green on the opposite side.
The Grandmaster felt the speed of the wind slightly, nodded in satisfaction, and then looked at the white flagpole two hundred yards away.
From this position, you will be able to see the drooping white pieces through the row of trees, thanks of course, to the caddy standing next to the pieces.
Although the caddy is only a child, it is much thicker than the flagpole......
Moving his steps slightly, the Grandmaster took a deep breath, grasped the club with both hands, and raised the club sharply.
The next moment, the club made a "woo" and hit the golf ball on the tee accurately.
Because it was a tee-off, the ball didn't hit the ground directly, so even though the grandmaster used a nine-iron with a large club angle, it still didn't bring up a little dirt.
With a crisp "ding", the white ball soared into the air and flew towards the green at an almost exaggerated high parabolic angle.
Although they did not have any confidence in the grandmaster's shot, King Wen and Xiao Zhengtai still made an awning with their hands, put them in front of their foreheads, and looked up to watch the small white ball fly towards the green across the lake.
I saw that the ball had clearly crossed the center line of the lake, but it still did not stop the upward trend. Judging by this angle, the ball would have landed in the lake on the other side of the green.
King Wen made an awning with both hands, and said without looking back: "Master, your strength seems to be a little bigger this one......
But before King Wen finished speaking, he suddenly stopped.
When I saw that the white ball rose to the highest point in the air, the ball had almost crossed two-thirds of the lake, but the white ball did not descend according to the rules of the parabola, and it was strangely oblique and plunged......
The trajectory of the ball was so strange that His Royal Highness King Wen began to mumble again: "Impossible, how can this high-throw ball have such a strange parabola? This is not in line with scientific reason......
In the muttering of King Wen, the white golf ball almost brushed the treetops of the row of big trees and swooped down directly into the green, of course, when the ball was below the treetops, there was nothing to see, but from the perspective of the ball landing just now, it was clear that this ball had a great chance to hit the green directly.
King Wen and Xiao Zhengtai didn't look at it anymore, they both turned their heads almost at the same time, stared at the grandmaster strangely and asked, "Master, how did you hit this ball? The trajectory of this parabola is really weird." ”
The grandmaster put down the club and said with a smile: "It's nothing, I just found that the row of big trees is a bit too high, and if you want to get the ball over that row of big trees and not fall into the lake on the other side of the green, you have to make the ball high enough, and at the same time, you can't let the ball end up in the lake, so when I hit the ball, I added some spin." ”
After a pause, the Grandmaster continued to explain: "It's like the rod of a billiard ball, in order for the cue ball to get out of the arc, you must give the cue ball enough spin. So I tried to give the golf ball a strong spin when I hit this one. Well, it's not so much that the ball is played, but that it can be explained more clearly by the word 'draw'. Obviously, my attempt seems to have been successful. ”
"Pump...... Draw the ball?" King Wen and Xiao Zhengtai looked at each other.
In golf hitting skills, there are digging, splitting, high throwing, and pushing...... But this is the first time the two of them have heard of this pump.
At this moment, several people faintly heard a shout from the other side of the green, and when they looked up, they saw that the caddie who was originally guarding the flagpole was waving his hands, jumping and shouting loudly at this side. It was just that they couldn't hear what the caddie was shouting because they were a little far away, but they could see that the caddie seemed to be very excited.
"Let's go, let's go over and see what happened...... King Wen got into the cart first, and it took the three of them about three minutes to reach the green area on the other side of the lake.
At this time, the caddy had already run over, and after bowing breathlessly, he said breathlessly: "Your Highness, who hit that shot just now?"
King Wen asked curiously, "What's the matter?"
The caddy shook his head and said, "Your Highness, maybe you don't believe what I said, so you'd better go over and see for yourself." The shot just now, after landing on the ground, did not roll forward because of the spin, but retreated slightly a distance, and it rolled directly into the hole......"
"Ah......" King Wen and Xiao Zhengtai looked at each other again.
It's a par-5 hole, and if the Grandmaster is really a hole-in-one, it's the legendary Hole-In-One, or Double Albatross, and of course, there's a louder name for it, called the Condor......