NOTE: Video examples shall be added with time since I currently don't have examples of every hole so far, be patient.

I've been doing quite a bit of practice on golf recently since there's no way to skip it as of now, and I wanted to make this guide to help other runners lower their times, and to have golf feel less of a nuisance overall.

Before I get into explaining the holes I wanted to go over the one thing I think is worse than missing a shot, HESITATION. If you want to lower your times by a lot in golf you need to get use to the idea of chasing after the ball for every shot, even the ones you know will go it. The reason I say this is on the off chance you miss, you're already going to be right next to the ball to correct the mistake, losing virtually no time at all. If you try to land a shot, and you miss while you're waiting for it to go in, you're going to lose a whole bunch of time walking to where the ball is (anywhere from 2-5 seconds). Also, if you hesitate in setting up your angles and power it could hurt your times as well. If you're close enough, just go for it.

Now that I've talked about that, I can talk about the holes themselves.

Hole 1 is the easiest hole by a large margin. You can learn how to finish hole 1 in 2 strokes with small amount of practice. First, you want to aim for the corner on the left at max power. Then, you want to aim for the hole when the power bar is just barely showing red.

Here's a reference photo for where you want to aim (green circle is where the ball will land, red circle is where you're aiming for, line is where the ball will travel).

Hole 2 is where things get tricky. It's kind of hard to explain things this point on so bear with me. Also, here's a picture of my setup for hole 2.

So what's happening here? Right now I'm aiming in between two dots on the wall (which you probably will not see unless you play with graphics set to fantastic). After I aim in between the dots, I'm looking to set my power to the exact amount in the photo. If you line this up in this way, the ball should go straight into the hole. I'd also like to add that the best way to practice hole 2 (in my opinion) is to make your own setup and practice that since not all setups work the same for everyone. I'm leaving mine here as just another option you may learn if you'd like to.

Here's another reference photo for where you want to aim.

Finally, I'd like to talk about hole 3. Hole 3 is a mess. Here's a video of a hole in 1 on hole 3.

Now, I'll give a little breakdown of the video. Around 0:04 I'm looking for a specific angle on the wall, it kind of looks like the line is both half way inside and outside the wall. After I find where I want to aim, I'm looking to change my power to the correct amount. You can see I'm very slowly inching the power back as little as I can do, resetting the power back to max when I fail. At 0:10 I get the correct change in power. What I'm looking for there is for a change in power 2 times. Once I see that I know it's correct and I take the shot. The reason this shot works is that at this specific angle and power, the ball will gain enough speed from colliding with the wall to make it into the hole without overshooting the hole.

Odds are, you probably won't get a hole in 1 on hole 3 every time you do it, since you're not guaranteed to even AIM at that spot. But if the planets align, the clocks somehow read 77:77, you have a four leafed clover, a lucky rabbit's foot, and you can somehow line up this shot, then go for it.

And here's the last reference photo of where to aim.

And there you have it. I hope this guide helps you all in lowering your golf times by a large amount. I also hope this guide doesn't seem like a ramble.

Video reference shall replace the photos with time.