Drive the Green: When your drive finishes on the putting surface. Can happen on short par-4. Dub: Bad shot or player. Duck Hook: Shot curving severely from right to left.
The yardage is saying you could drive the green, but your golf brain should tell you to hit a safe middle iron shot into the fairway, followed by a short iron approach. Easy pars are better than an occasional birdie and many double bogeys.
Shorter par 4s are usually designed so that there is “trouble' around the green to provide a risk/reward for the longer hitters to entice them to try and drive the green.
Drive the Green - hitting for first shot on the green Drive-and-Pitch - The type of hole on which the green can be reached with a drive and a pitch shot. Some courses have all the holes of this type.
See also: Public course, Woods, Royal and Ancient Golf Club, Golf, Ball marker
 
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