Richard Zokol asked me to post the following:
435-yard 3rd hole at Sagebrush Golf & Sporting Club, Quilchena BC Canada
Sagebrush Golf & Sporting Club
3rd Hole Specifications and Design Concepts
By Richard Zokol
Length of 3rd hole: - 435 yard
Fairway: - Fairways/tees are seeded with a mixture of Chewings/Creeping Fescues and Colonial Bentgrass, 90% Fescues and 10% Colonial Bent. Width of 3rd fairway is 85-yards wide in the designated landing area for the tee-shot (over the right fairway bunkers, distance over the left fairway bunker is significantly longer and really not an option of play)
Green: - Greens are seeded to Creeping Bentgrass. The seed blend on greens is Extreme Dominant (Providence & SR 1119). Size of 3rd green is 7,500 – 8,000 sq/ft.
Prevailing Wind: - Down wind
Hole Characteristics and Playability: The 3rd hole at Sagebrush was designed to be played from the appropriate tee-ground that allows for all levels of golfers the playability to drive over the right fairway bunker. This will allow for the slope (right-to-left) to run the ball to the middle of the fairway if the tee-shot is play in this direction. With 5 tee-boxes on this hole, the teeing ground offers a number of options to choose from depending on the player’s ability. The ideal tee-shot would then leave a relatively short second shot to an open front, but yet, well bunkered green. Players will need to navigate the small but well position pot-bunker 25-yards in front (slightly right of center) of the green when playing the ball on the ground to the green. As the fairways/greens at Sagebrush will play extremely fast and firm players will be rewarded to play (or learn to play) shot on the ground as much as possible. The fade or left-to-right tee-shot will receive the natural right-to-left slope of the fairway.
Ruggedly designed bunkers with, coarse and compacting sand, are a strong character feature at Sagebrush and are in many cases utilized to deal with the significant elevation challenges of the land to allow for flatter playing areas. In an effort to show the massive scale of Sagebrush, the large fairway bunker on left side of the 3rd hole is approximately 7,000 – 8,000 sq/ft in size with significant movement on the bunker floor.
Sagebrush’s 3rd Hole Numbers:
Tees of Choice: Length of 3rd hole Carry over right bunker
Beginners Tee: 195 yards 15-yards
Front Tee: 230-yards 50-yards
Member’s Tee: 330-yards 150 –yards
Advances Player’s Tee: 370-yards 190-yards
Tour Player’s Tee: 435-yards 248-yards