Oakridge
Golf Club
This ‘tip sheet’ is intended for the
first time golfer playing at Oakridge; for the average golfer who usually plays
from the gold (white) tees. It’s worth a
preview. After all it’s free and golf
balls cost money!
Hole #1 - Check with marshal for an
accurate distance from the tee to the pond.
Lots of trouble down the right hand side of the fairway. Take an extra
club when hitting over the pond. Green
slopes from right to left. The greens at
Oakridge tend to run fast.
Hole #2 - Do not align your tee shot with
the tee blocks but rather with the flag.
Tee shots will not run up the apron onto the green - take an extra club.
Hole #3 - Very difficult hole, bogey is a
reasonable score here. If your drive
doesn’t get close to the 150 marker then consider taking 3 shots to get on the
green. Aim left with second shot. Then
wedge on. Green goes from left to right
and is a real roller coaster ride. Putt
like a surgeon.
Hole #4 - Regardless of yardage, always
take an extra club. Favour the left side
with tee shot - green goes from left to right.
Stay below the hole on a red flag at all costs.
Hole #5 - Tee shot down the left side may
lead to a penalty. There’s more room on
the right and you’re in great shape if you can get past the large maple on the
right side of the fairway. Take enough
club to carry the front bunker on your second shot. Green is shallow, very wide
with severe slope on the left side.
Hole #6 - Double ponds on left and right
off the tee. Slope of fairways is cut
short - some shots may land on fairway and still roll down into the water. Green is heavily bunkered - safe second shot
is slightly out to the right side.
Hole #7 - Pond on the right side of fairway
off the tee. Also, some fades and slices
may roll off the fairway into the water.
A drive down the left side will hit the hill and spring forward. Green is very deep - take an extra club on a
black flag.
Hole #8 - Avoid the right side as second
shot may be blocked out from the green.
Align yourself with the 150 marker, not the tee blocks. Last 100 yards is straight up hill - take an
extra club. Same goes for chipping uphill.
Never go past a red flag with your approach or you will be sorry!
Hole #9 - Swing easy from this elevated tee
shot. Stay right of center on fairway as
the hidden bunkers on the left are large and long. Huge green - focus on flag colour for yardage
on second shot. (Full service washrooms
are located just behind the snack bar to the right of the 9th
green.)
Hole #10 - Try to hit your drive slightly
right of center. Watch your alignment
depending on where the tee blocks are located.
Any drive that clears the large maple on the right will hit the hill and
spring forward. Tee shots too far down
the left quickly run out of fairway. Green is heavily bunkered…and they’re
deep!
Hole #11 - Drives off the tee have more room
on the right than the left, although the right side is heavily mounded. Bring second shot in from the right. Shots on the side of the (right) hill usually
bounce onto the green. Beware the bunker
and maple tree on the left. Green runs
deep - take an extra club for a black flag.
Hole#12 - Blind tee shot - aim for the
white birdhouse off on the horizon. Tee
shots that go too far left may be blocked from green on 2nd
shot. Cart up to the 100 yard marker
before you hit your approach shot to the green.
Take at least one less club for drop in elevation and beware the bunker
in front of the green. Shots off the
mounds to the right of the green will bounce on.
Hole#13 - Take at least one club less for
elevation. Tee shot has lots of room out
on the right (which you can’t see). Draws and hooks will lead to a penalty or a
very difficult 2nd shot. This
hole has 3 sets of gold tees - double check yardage before hitting.
Hole #14 - Difficult tee shot as forest runs
down both sides of fairway. Aim for the in-play
edge of the tree line on the left. If
you land up in trouble try not to be a hero with your 2nd shot. Play to the 100 marker and get on in
three. Green has a ‘mottled’ look due to
the two types of grasses that grow on it.
Watch out as the green can run very fast when you’re putting. The rough is always thick and long and the
green is deceptively subtle.
Hole #15 - Our longest drive hole. Watch out for the left side of fairway which
is forested all the way down to the green.
Basically a 3 shot play to the green.
Stay clear of the bunker in front of the green (on the left). There is a private residence (with young
children) on the right side of the hole from the 150 marker up to the
green. Please aim away from the property
and realize that it is strictly out of bounds.
Please do not enter site to look for a wayward shot. Take a drop at point of entry (with a penalty)
and play onto the green. Thanks!
Hole #16 - Par 3. Multiple tee decks and flag colours will
change your yardage dramatically. On
windy days many shots will get pushed into the gigantic greenside bunker. Not a good place to be! Green is huge so take dead aim at the flag
because many tee shots that land on the putting surface may still lead to a 3
putt green
Hole #17 - Two distinct sets of gold tee
blocks. Check your alignment with the fairway.
Stay out of the fairway bunker on the right side at all costs. Second shot (depending on the angle) usually
isn’t as far as the yardage would indicate.
Green is deep; try to stay below the hole if possible.
Hole#18 - Unique par 5 which provides two
options. Aim down the left side and try
and blast one down the tree line onto the fairway past the corner. Or hit straight down the fairway, iron down to
near the pond and a wedge over on your 3rd shot. If flag is on the
right side, take more club. On the left,
take less. If it’s behind ‘Old Whitey’ take
your chances and test Trevino’s theory = trees are 90% air. This green is wide and shallow. The view from behind the green looking back
is golforious! Unless you’re hitting
from the high flashing bunker!
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