Extreme Hills Tournament (June 8th, 2020)
Next up is the Extreme Hills Tournament featuring Eagle Peak and Grünberg Slopes holes:
Without wasting any more time, let’s jump right into the text guides for the Extreme Hills Tournament.
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Eagle Peak Hole #1 (Par 4)
| Drive | 2nd Shot | |
|---|---|---|
| ↩️ Spin | Max Top; Max Right | 5-7 Back |
| ⛳️ Overadjust | 20% | 10% |
| 🏐 Ball | Titan (Rookie), Kingmaker (Pro/Expert) | |
| 🏑 Club(s) | Extra Mile (Rookie/Pro/Expert) or max distance driver | Backbone (Rookie), Sniper (Pro/Expert) |
You want to gain as much distance as possible to get far enough to not get the trees in your path for you second shot by using all you have here. You could potentially overpower the drive and it’s not too risky as the bunker and rough is pretty far away so even not hitting perfect is okay to do.
Make sure to mind the extra wind adjustment for playing massively downhill!
*BETA* Please let me know in the comments if you would like to see wind charts like that with adjustment (Ball Wind Resistance, Playing Downhill, etc.) for all shots. Thanks
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The main problem with the second shot where you can directly approach the pin is that you need to slow down your ball enough to not come in too hot here. Use a club that has at least 5 bars of backspin and you can bounce on the fairway spot right in front of the pin and have a nice chance to get the eagle here in the first hole of the Extreme Hills Tournament.
Eagle Peak Hole #2 (Par 3)
| Drive | ||
|---|---|---|
| ↩️ Spin | 2 Top; Max Right | |
| ⛳️ Overadjust | 10% | |
| 🏐 Ball | Katana (Rookie/Pro/Expert) | |
| 🏑 Club(s) | Backbone (Rookie) | Big Dawg (Pro/Expert) |
This Par 3 here can be tricky and you shouldn’t get your hopes for an easy hole-in-one up too much.
You need to bounce over the bunker and use all the sidespin possible to get the ball into the direction of the pin while bouncing a second time on the fairway before the green.
This is the most consistent way to actually get the right amount of speed and with some luck you get the hole-in-one but you have the birdie here secured.
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Grünberg Slopes Hole #3 (Par 5)
| Drive | 2nd Shot | |
|---|---|---|
| ↩️ Spin | 4-5 Top; 4-5 Left | 3 Back |
| ⛳️ Overadjust | 10% | 30% |
| 🏐 Ball | Quasar (Rookie), Kingmaker (Pro/Expert) | |
| 🏑 Club(s) | Extra Mile (Rookie/Pro/Expert), Apocalypse (Pro/Expert) | Backbone (Rookie), SNiper (Pro/Expert) |
This is a fairly easy Par 5 hole in the Extreme Hills Tournament when played right.
The “secret sauce” is not bouncing over the rough in the drive and use a ball with extra Power so you can bounce it directly on the second fairway using all the topspin and sidespin to the left that you can give.
Stay away from the right side unless the wind is really unfortunate and you don’t have a good ball to play – the right side will get you into a whole lot of trouble when approaching the green in your second shot!
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From this spot you can approach the pin directly. The green is downhill so use at least 3 bars of backspin. This will get you in the best position to get the eagle now but you also have a nice chance to actually go for the albatross here as well.
Keep in mind that this is downhill big time so you need to over-adjust when adjusting the wind by about 30% (means instead of adjusting e.g. 2 rings for wind you will adjust 2.6 rings)
Grünberg Slopes Hole #4 (Par 3)
| Drive | ||
|---|---|---|
| ↩️ Spin | 1-3 Back, Max Left | |
| ⛳️ Overadjust | 20% | |
| 🏐 Ball | Quasar (Rookie), Kingmaker (Pro/Expert) | |
| 🏑 Club(s) | Viper (Rookie) | Sniper (Rookie/Pro/Expert) |
This hole here is extremely hard to get a hole-in-one at so rather play it safe for the birdie than risking too much.
You play downhill here as well so make sure you do adjust about 20% extra when adjusting the wind.
I’d recommend you to use either a Sniper or Viper because the accuracy will make a huge difference here.
You can see in the image how you should aim before wind adjustment but here’s also all the backspin to the right already added. Depending on the wind you should use 1-3 bars of backspin (1 with a headwind, 2 with sidewind only and 3 bars with a tailwind).
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Eagle Peak Hole #5 (Par 4)
| Drive | 2nd Shot | |
|---|---|---|
| ↩️ Spin | Max Top; Max Left; 50% Curl Left | |
| ⛳️ Overadjust | 0% | 30% (if you don’t go for green in your drive) |
| 🏐 Ball | Titan (Rookie), Kingmaker/Berserker Pro/Expert) | |
| 🏑 Club(s) | Extra Mile (Rookie) | Apocalypse (Pro/Expert) |
This is a Par 4 hole where you can go straight for the green in your drive in the Extreme Hills Tournament! Use the driver that gives you the most distance.
You should always try to go for green here because there’s no position where you can lay up the ball with your drive that let you play the second shot comfortably to approach the pin.
Use a Power III ball and use all the topspin and sidespin to the left you have and you don’t need to overpower here massively, you only need to reach the part of the fairway that slopes down and it will take you right in front of the green.
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Eagle Peak Hole #6 (Par 5)
| Drive | 2nd Shot | |
|---|---|---|
| ↩️ Spin | Max Top; 1-2 Right | 3-4 Top; Max Left |
| ⛳️ Overadjust | 0% | 10% |
| 🏐 Ball | Titan (Rookie), Kingmaker (Pro/Expert) | |
| 🏑 Club(s) | Big Topper (Rookie), Extra Mile (Rookie), Thor’s Hammer (Pro/Expert), Apocalypse (Pro/Expert) | Big Dawg (Rookie), Sniper (Rookie/Pro/Expert) |
You want to gain as much distance as possible and a driver like the Big Topper works here extremely well with that load of topspin. Alternatively, use the driver that gives you the most topspin in your bag and use this. It’s about topspin here, not distance.
Additional distance won’t get you over that rough so topspin is the only option to gain a lot of distance here.
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For the second shot you need to use the rough bump or you won’t make the ball stop enough to approach the pin or stay on the green.
Use some topspin here as well as all the sidespin to the left and aim directly for the pin. You will roll on the fairway and this gives you the best option to get a eagle/albatross here in this Par 5 in the Extreme Hill Tournament.
Grünberg Slopes Hole #7 (Par 3)
| Drive | ||
|---|---|---|
| ↩️ Spin | – | |
| ⛳️ Overadjust | 10% | |
| 🏐 Ball | Marlin (Rookie), Kingmaker (Pro/Expert) | |
| 🏑 Club(s) | Backbone (Rookie) | Sniper (Pro/Expert), Grizzly (Pro/Expert) |
This Par 3 here is actually a nice chance to get a hole-in-one in the Extreme Hills Tournament as there’s not much you need to do other than adjusting the wind right and hitting a perfect shot 🙂
So, you should aim here and without any spin aim directly for the pin. That’s it.
When you’re adjusting the wind you really want to add 10% extra wind adjustment just to make sure that playing downhill will not mess up your shot.
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Acacia Reserve Hole #8 (Par 4)
| Drive | 2nd Shot | |
|---|---|---|
| ↩️ Spin | Max Top; Max Right | 3 Back |
| ⛳️ Overadjust | 15% | -10% |
| 🏐 Ball | Marlin (Rookie), Katana (Pro/Expert) | |
| 🏑 Club(s) | Extra Mile (Rookie/Pro/Expert) | Thorn (Rookie/Pro/Expert) |
The Par 4 hole in the Extreme Hills Tournament comes in quite easy and shouldn’t be a big problem to get an eagle here in.
The important thing here is actually that you have a short iron with a very good amount of backspin and you can play this risk-free.
In your drive, you want to gain as much distance without overpowering by using all the topspin you have along with all sidespin to the right.
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This will settle you on a point where you then can play the second shot to go directly for the pin.
As I mentioned, if you have a short iron like the Thorn you can also bounce directly on the green and this makes it quite easy to approach the pin directly.
Grünberg Slopes Hole #9 (Par 5)
| Drive | 2nd Shot | |
|---|---|---|
| ↩️ Spin | Max Top; Max Left | 3-4 Back |
| ⛳️ Overadjust | 10% | 5% |
| 🏐 Ball | Titan (Rookie/Pro/Expert) | |
| 🏑 Club(s) | Extra Mile (Rookie/Pro/Expert) | Sniper (Rookie/Pro7Expert) |
This is the last hole of the Extreme Hills Tournament and it’s actually a fairly easy one.
In your drive you want to gain as much distance as possible by also using a Power II ball and using all the topspin and sidespin to the right that you have – otherwise you will end up with the trees in your way and this means goodbye to a great below par here.
You also play a little bit downhill here but I haven’t done any extra adjustment for that to be honest.
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Your second shot then will approach the green directly and depending on the spot you landed your drive this can require some curl as well if there’s not enough sidespin available.
I also recommend you to use about 3-4 bars of backspin to not come in too hot and with the curl it can be tricky sometimes.
If you want to check out a text guide for an older tournament you can see them here on the second page:
