As you approach the 1st green at Pine Valley, the wide open front looks almost inviting, and it's only when you walk onto the green...and walk...and walk...and walk towards the back of a rapidly narrowing green increasingly falling off into oblivion on each side that you realize...you are not only put on notice, but you're about to be beaten mercilessly around the head and shoulders, with some certain body blows thrown in for good measure..
As Ran's Review of PV states;
1st hole, 425 yards; Considered the finest 19th hole in golf, the 8,300 square foot green starts as an extension of the fairway and ends as a peninsula with sharp fall offs on all three sides. The demand for clear thinking is immediate: with the front portion of the green ample in width, is the golfer content to be on the front and take two putts to get down? Or is he confident enough to chase after the back hole locations where the green narrows? A wonderful dilemma posed by a bunkerless green site.
As taken from the right side of the green complex, an approach lost slightly right is kicked away
from the green and towards death. A similar fate awaits on the left side and over as well.