Dear Mike,
Ah yes, the legendary #4 at CCOPABR. I was going to mention the very hole, but I did not want to admit on such an erudite website that I had actually played the course. In fact, our company had its outing there twice. Double the pleasure, etc.
I agree. #4 is the worst designed golf hole I have seen. And one year, it was the most memorable. After laying up with 8 and 9 irons in a scramble format, our BEST second shot over the marsh bounced into the portapotty that sits dramatically up on the hill to the left of the green. Took our drop and made the four.
There are a number of holes, however, that give old #4 a run for its money. A par four we dubbed "the vocano hole", a downhill semi-blind par three ( you have to walk 30 yards forward to see the green), a 220 yard flat par four, and a dramatically downhill par four where the landing area for a driver, or a three wood, or a long iron, is a large marsh.
I also recall that one year they put the pin on the side of a hill so severe that we four putted in a scramble format.
And some of those 5-10 minute drives are not through inhospitable terrain, but out on the road betwen the vacation houses.
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