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Hole Description:
The Bluish Green Monster is perhaps a good name for hole Seventeen at Calderone. This would be due almost entirely to the challenge presented by this devilish green. Please realize that this hole could survive on the Tour as one of the most difficult holes played in round. That would be due to the multiple contours found on the green. These contours include two monster hog backs in the back right and left of the green, a severe back to front slope and if that is not enough, a bowl shaped contour in the front right section of the green. It's a survival hole.
Tee Shot Tips:
My best advice on this hole is to be on a straight line below the hole. Anything else is going to be a severe break or a severe test of your green reading capabilities. Even if you are lucky enough to stay dead below the hole your putt will generally move 8 to 10 inches left or right. Know going in that the far right is putting jail as is the far left. Check out the pictures of this green for a better appreciation of the severity of its contours and perhaps you will gain an appreciation for the level of difficulty this green presents. Playing it is the proof. I would rate this green number one or perhaps two in overall difficulty. Green four is perhaps equally as difficult, but somehow I feel seventeen is the hardest of the two.
Landing Zone Tips:
Avoid the hogs in the back at all cost, and the front right as that is the edge of the bowl and can produce horseshoe like putts that come back to you if not struck with perfect pace. Avoid the far left if the pin is front and center as you are coming down a slippery slope. Just try to be below the hole on a straight line and cope with the outcome as best you can.
Putting Tips:
Chances are you will encounter the putt over the hog right at some time. If you are below it right and coming over it to a pin in the mid back, you will have about 12 to 15 feet of break and you will not believe it until you see it. The same is true if you are contending with going over the hog in the back left. A putt of some 35 feet lower left of the back left hog will play like 72 feet and take you an inch off the fringe. It will end up 8 feet from back edge and in the valley where the pin is normally placed. If you are lucky enough to be putting uphill and straight in the valley, the putt looks straight but actually breaks about 10 inches on a ten foot putt. The same is true if you are coming down the back right valley between the hogs. There is at least 8 to 10 inches of break on a what appears to be a fairly straight line. If you are in the lower right and must putt to the center front of the green, good luck. You could be there all day! That is the horseshoe putt zone. The best miss in this case is on the high side of the hole and be glad if you gave it enough speed to counter the 8 foot break. Otherwise the ball is coming back to you about 6 feet as it rides the rim of the bowl. The other nasty putt is being far left above the hole and putting back to the center front. Now you are coming down hill and yet it looks fairly flat. A 12 foot putt here will play like a 7 inch putt! Go for broke and putt it like a 12 inch putt and watch it fly past the hole some 8 feet as it finds the ridge and fades off the front of the green. Experience a few of these putts on 17 and you will know why the name “Bluish Green Monster” is perhaps a good name for this hole.
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