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Hole Description:
This par five could easily be a hole you might experience at the Masters or some other great golf course and hence its nickname. While it rewards length off the tee, it can punish those who would attempt to reach it in two in several ways. First, there is the valley of sin that awaits far right next to the green. It is a valley so deep you will find it difficult to believe it takes a full 60 degree wedge just to make it back up on top the green. Come up short on the flop and you will be in a bunker that is next to impossible to get out of and still get close to the pin. Be long left and you may find the tree line or heather left. Hit the front lip and you just landed on a hog back that will kick you off the back of the green or hard left and into the rough. With all that said, it is still tempting to go for it. Usually, you won’t make it, but you can be just short and on the fringe and have a shot at an eagle chip. Just as in the Masters during a tournament, it is a great swing hole.
Tee Shot Tips:
No special tips are required for this shot as it is pretty straightforward and wide open. Your only real trouble is the heather right and far left.
Landing Zone Tips:
Since the landing zone of the tee shot is generous, my words are better spent on the 2nd shot landing zone. The prudent play is to simply advance the ball on a line as straight towards the center of the green as possible. 200 yards is sufficient for your 2nd shot. That leaves you with what you need coming in, which is a high soft landing approach.
Approach Shot Tips:
Just be aware that if the pin is up front, the front hog is your main enemy and will tend to feed the ball from right to left on you about three feet. If the pin is in the center or back you can fire right at such a generous target. Note, the blunder here is to come up short in the trap in the front or push it right into the impossible bunker shot right of the green. I say that, because I have used that bunker as a practice session a few times and regardless of how many shots you hit out of it, at least 95 percent of them will run long on you. Hence, I give it the respect it deserves in planning my approach to this green.
Putting Tips:
Study the pictures of this green in the galleries provided in this web site and you will gain an appreciations for the many contours this green presents. The front has a tight lip and feeds off to the left and right respectively. The middle and back are more than fair as you have a slight rise as you putt from the middle towards the back. What is not so obvious is how the grade of the front left portion of the green impacts a putt coming from the back towards the front. It tends to cause a break that is tough to read, but generally left to right overall. The speed is moderate to fast for most sections of the green except the left edge towards the middle could be considered moderate to slow.
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