From the website:
Green 379
Blue 328
White 307
Red 271
This short par 4 is best played with a long iron or 3-wood to reach the plateau in the fairway. The short iron approach shot is to a flattish green that slopes from back to front.What isn't apparent from the diagram - the plateau is up on a significant hill, so the hole plays longer than its yardage for mere mortals (the big boys just fly their drives 300, so it's less of an issue for them...
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I don't remember the drainage ditch crossing the fairway - I thought it ran alongside.
Note the bunkers are strategically placed in the preferred landing area, in terms of the angle to the green. (Of course, many contends that with today's technology, angles don't matter. But they do to mere mortals!)
Yardages and overhead to follow.
Odd story of the week:During the stroke portion of the '03 Am, JohnV tipped me off to something I had thought of: he said the playoff Wednesday morning for the matchplay sometimes yielded some fun and exciting play. So I showed up early Wed. morning, and after I crossed the bridge I saw the players coming down the 10th, the first playoff hole. I think there were about 10 or 11 guys playing for something like 6 or 7 spots. The 10th did a marvelous job paring things down quickly. I think 5 guys parred and were in, 3-4 doubled and were out, and 3 were left in the playoff for 1 spot after bogeying the hole. So they trodded over to the 11th tee.
I was standing about 50 yards out, watching the guys tee off, and I thought I had mistakenly seen on the guys top his tee shot. No way a guy playing in the Am could do that, I thought, I must have seen it wrong. Well, they started walking up the hole, and then they stopped quickly, while one of the guys and his caddy assessed the ball sitting IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 3 FOOT WIDE WALKING PATH! Talk about your narrow fairways to hit. Well, he calming pulled out a club, knocked it up on the plateau, wedged it to about 10 feet, and just missed continuing on in the playoff with his lipped out putt.
That guy might have shared the top shot with yours truly, but he sure as hell handled in better!
Last Week: The terrific 10th at Oakmont