Ron Forse's design in Coram, NY on Long Island is very enjoyable, and pretty tough if you spray the tee ball like me
. It plays a sneeky long 6600 (par 70) from the back markers with two driveable 4 pars (the guy behind us drove both while we were still on the green) and several real tough 4.5s, 12 and 13 play about 460/490 respectively and are are two real tough 4s in a row.
Lot's of interesting green shapes with a good amount of internal contouring. The skinny 50+ yard deep 16th green was my favorite.
The course is forced in a few spots with some routing gliches and you better hit it straight with the driver but it's a good challenge and a great public option for LI.
It remined me of Hidden Creek and Laurel Links in different places. A nice fresh addition for LI public play and if they firm up those greens for a tourney or two, watch out, with those pine trees everywhere and three putts lurking on most holes the scores could go high there in a hurry.
Go play it if you can and don't feel obligated to play the back tees unless you're a solid 5 or better (and straight).
I should've played the blue tees with my Dad
