Hole #9

#9. par 5 – Now’s the time to let the big dog bark. This hole can take everything you have on the first two shots and then some. From the tips you have a forced carry of two hundred yards in order to clear the lowland sanctuary area. If you succeed in threading your tee shot through an unforgiving swath wrested from the surrounding cedars, avoided the bunker and deep swamp on the right, and have managed to advance it far enough to cut the dogleg, your next shot begins an uphill march to the green; providing you have avoided the three large fairway bunkers left of the landing zone. Now, all that remains is a short iron to an elevated unforgiving, three tiered green ensconced among seven sand bunkers. Hope for birdie but be satisfied with par.