Marsh Ridge's General Manager, Dick
Weber, offers the following advice in
successfully meeting the challenge of this
Northern Michigan Big Shot..
"Number one is a great warmup hole at Marsh
Ridge. It is a fairly short par 4, dogleg left.
What you want to do is place the ball down the
fairway with a medium distance iron, perhaps a 5
wood for the ladies.
"Some big hitters like to go for the green
and it can be done but it is a low percentage
shot. The smart thing to do is to use this as a
nice warm up hole and get the ball out there 150
yards or so and leave yourself with an easy
wedge to the green.
"There is a trap to the right of the green
and the hill slopes down into some trouble if
you are long and left, so you will want to be
very precise with your wedge to the green.
