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#1 Course in Mississippi · Est. 1917
— U.S. Amateur Qualifier · Course Strategy Guide

Laurel Country
Club

Player
Danny Wehle
The Test
Par 72 · 6,968
Built From
20 rounds
A Seymour Dunn classic — tree-lined, small greens, the oldest country club in Mississippi. A positioning test, not a power one.
— State of the Game · Last 20 Rounds

A D1-caliber ball-striker.

Danny clears the D1 Top-25 standard tee-to-green. The strokes are hiding on the greens — and the short stick is the highest-weighted category.
Overall Player Quality
98
▼ −4
Just under the D1 Top-25 standard of 102 — and the gap is almost entirely the putter.
Ball-striking: D1+
97
Off the Tee
SHOT QUALITY · ELITE BAR 112
The accuracy lever
103
Approach
PLAYER QUALITY · D1 BAR 102
▲ +1 · strength
96
Around Green
PLAYER QUALITY · D1 BAR 95
▲ +1 · bunker ▼
★ THE LEVER
92
Putting
PLAYER QUALITY · D1 BAR 98
▼ −6 · 28% of scoring
— Strengths & Levers · Importance × Quality

Where the qualifier is won.

Plot each part of the game by how much it matters to scoring against how good it is. The bottom-right is where the strokes are.
Importance to scoring →
Quality vs D1 →
MAINTAIN
PROTECT
MONITOR
◣ FIX FIRST
D1 STANDARD
APP
ARG
OTT
PUTT28% · −6
Priority order
1Putting▼ trend
Biggest gap × biggest weight. −2.21 SG · 1.86 putts/GIR · the lag putt (35+ ft) is the leak.
2Tee Accuracy
Protect the strength. Club to a 3-wood where the right miss bites — right miss 27% → 7%.
3Bunker Touch
A tidy-up, not a headline. 44% sand up-and-down · SQ 93 ▼.
Play to — your edge
Approach. +0.69 SG and 27'8" proximity vs the elite 36'5" — feed it short, fairway-first tee shots.
— Off the Tee · The Club Decision

Tame the right miss.

Distance isn't the problem — 298 yds sits on the D1 benchmark. The right miss is. Clubbing down nearly erases it for ~18 yards.
Driver
FW Hit 62% · SQ 97
298
yds avg
10
FW 62%
27
◀ MISS LEFTMISS RIGHT ▶
The right miss costs +0.50 to par — into Laurel's tree lines, it's the one outcome that bleeds strokes.
3-Wood off the tee
FW Hit 71% · SQ 99
280
yds avg
only −18 yds
17
FW 71%
7
◀ MISS LEFTMISS RIGHT ▶
Right miss collapses 27% → 7% and fairways climb to 71%. The higher-quality play where width is tight.
Driver — avg score to par, by outcome
Fairway
−0.02
FW Bunker
−0.20
Miss Left
+0.00
Miss Right
+0.50
◀ BETTER (under par)WORSE (over par) ▶
— The verdict
Driver only where the hole gives you width.
Everywhere the right side is tight — trees, OB, a dogleg corner — take the 3-wood. You give up 18 yards and buy a fairway. The 5-wood (269) has the smallest right miss of all.
— Laurel CC · The Game Plan Off the Tee

Fairway first. Wedge in.

Leave = intended approach yardage to the green · par 5s: lay up to this number
Driver 3-Wood 5-Wood Lay-up Par 3
FRONT NINE
#YdsPlayTeeLeaveYour GIR
1P4404wedge inDRIVER11977
2P4452long; left miss safeDRIVER11977
3P4407OB right — club down3-WOOD14668
4P3161bunkers ring greenPAR 316163
5P5523lay up; birdie safeLAY-UP11077
6P5545three-shot par 5LAY-UP11077
7P4360150 in4-IRON15068
8P4457hardest; bail leftDRIVER12570
9P3223survival — fat of greenPAR 322335
BACK NINE
#YdsPlayTeeLeaveYour GIR
10P5500downhill, runs out; 155 in3-WOOD15568
11P3198heart of greenPAR 319873
12P4467left-centerDRIVER15068
13P43813W to your number3-WOOD10177
14P4433stout; left-centerDRIVER11577
15P4342dogleg R→L — club down5W / 4i13570
16P3164commit to yardagePAR 316463
17P5517lay up; waterLAY-UP11577
18P4434favor right; pond leftDRIVER7083
— The math 16 of 18 tee shots leave Danny inside 180 in the fairway — his 63–83% GIR zone. Only the 223-yd 9th forces him into his weak band. Play it for bogey-avoidance; make the strokes back on the holes that fit.
— Optimized Leaves · Find the Better Band

Closer isn't always better.

Your GIR isn't a smooth curve — it dips, spikes and walls. A few yards off the tee can land the better band.
The lever
120yd
70% ▸ 77%
★ Biggest win
Hole 8 · Par 4 · 457 · Driver
Leave
125 ▸ 118
Your GIR
70% ▸ 77% +7
Your stoutest driving hole — and you can find a few more yards here. You're finishing 5 yards past the 120 line in your 70% band; take those yards and the same wedge plays from 100–120, your sweet spot at 77%. Driver or more — never a club down: a 3-wood only lengthens the leave into your 68% band.
→ The 120 line is your lever — live just under it.
Held · play as drawn
H15
135
Water short — the lay-back stays.
H10
172
Already maxed on driver — nothing more to give.
H3
146
OB right — the club stays down.
Every other leave already lands in your 77% / 83% bands. Hole 8 is the one true squeeze.
H7
Protect the 100 line. You're worse from 75–100 (62%) than from 100–120 (77%) — never leak a wedge short into that dip. Hold the full 100-yard number.
↯
The curve, not the distance. A dip at 75–100, a spike at 180–200 (73%), then the wall at 200. Land in 100–120, and stay shy of 200 at all costs.
— Approach · The Strength

The irons are the weapon.

Danny stacks it closer than the D1 elite from every range inside 200. Get the tee ball in the short grass and this is where he wins holes.
Strokes Gained · APP
+0.69
Avg Proximity
27'8"
8'9" tighter
D1 Top-25 avg: 36'5"
Miss tendency
Right
17
Left
9
Short
7
Long
6
Same right lean as the driver — aim the body left of right pins.
Greens hit by distance band
% GIR · all lies
83
62
77
70
68
63
73
46
35
50-75
75-100
100-120
120-140
140-160
160-180
180-200
200-220
220+
The wall is 200 yards. Inside it he hits 62–83% of greens; beyond it GIR collapses to 46% then 35% and the miss runs hard right. The tee plan exists to keep him on the near side of that line.
— Putting · The Lever & The Plan

Win it on the greens.

He's hitting greens at a D1 clip and giving the strokes back on the surface. The most important category is also his softest — that's opportunity, not alarm.
Strokes Gained · Putting
28% of scoring
−2.21
Player Quality
92 vs D1 98
Putts / GIR
1.86
Putts / Round
29.8
1-Putt · 3-Putt
37% · 6%
The leak ▼
35+ ft lag
— The round blueprint at Laurel
1
Fairway first off the tee
3-wood wherever the right side is tight. Trade 18 yards for a fairway — the right miss falls 27% → 7%.
2
Wedge into the small greens
From inside 180 he's the best version of himself — +0.69 SG, 27'8" proximity. Aim left of right pins.
3
Lag the long ones dead
Speed control from 35+ ft is the single biggest stroke-saver. This is where the card is decided.
4
Take your medicine on the brutes
The 223-yd 9th and any 200+ approach: play the fat of the green, make par or bogey, move on.
A ball-striker who putts to his ceiling qualifies. The clubs are ready — the putter writes the number.
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