Do you intentionally play adjacent fairways?

[CG031]

I've never seen a golf course where this makes sense. So gimme an "incomplete."

Really? Comes up on a few courses I play(ed). It's a real stupid hole design but on a few of these holes you get a much shorter shot in, and avoid all the hole's trouble by just knocking your drive into the fairway out right.

[allin]

I have played a local course where this is an advantage. A sharp dogleg par 4 with water in play if you push it a little plus tree and mound trouble if you cut the dogleg, basically driver is taken out of play, a 215-225 yard five wood or 3 hybrid leaves a 185-195 for second shot. By playing in the fairway for the par 5 which is actually the next hole coming back all the trouble is taken out of play and you could hit driver with a 6 or 7 iron left. As the course has matured the trees have gotten taller making it difficult to get the ball up fast enough to carry the trees with a driver, but people still try. The course has a local rule forbidding the practice, and has had to ban a couple of slack jaws who put others in risk by continuing to try it.

[sonicblue]

Never intentionally from the tee, but one par 5 in my league has a sharp dogleg left. If you push it and kill it, you can get through a tree line and end up on another hole. One time I did just that, and hit my second up that other fairway, then had just a wedge back over a small tree cluster to my green.

I would be surprised if any course designer actually made it such that, off the tee, you're encouraged to play into another fairway.

[rwfastrax]

I was finishing up my front nine this weekend and I'm at the tee and notice a ball coming in from the left. Hole 1's fairway and hole 9's fairway border each other. The ball cuts across 9's fairway and I'm thinking.."man I'd hate to have to do that walk of shame..." Then another ball comes into 9's fairway as I'm driving to my tee shot...as I look back two more balls in 9's fairway. The group on hole one were intentionally teeing their balls to 9's fairway. What an idiotic and dangerous thing to do.

[billm408]

If there's a distinct advantage, yes. The hole you showed would be one that I'd consider in a competition, but firing over the green or into oncoming traffic for a casual round doesn't make a lot of sense.

For the record... I hate any in course OB. I understand the reasons, but I think if it's on the course, it should be in play.

[$2 Nassau]

Never intentionally. But there are certain where I know I have lots of room for error, so I'll be a little more aggressive with the tee shot.

[max power]

I have been known to hit a wayward drive and punch out to an adjacent fairway and play up.

"Courting great peril" - definitely my favorite post of the week.