Morgan Hill pics and copy:
http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,35181.0.html..and parts of a review from 2004:
Bring your clubs to The Club at Morgan Hill. You're going to need them -- all of them. And plenty of imagination.
Go ahead, hit those 3-irons and 5-irons from the par-3 tee boxes and the par-4 fairways. But you'll need them in the collection areas around the greens, too, for bump-and-run over the humps and hills that protect the cup. If your short-game shot selection has been like Ben Affleck's career -- flop, flop, flop -- better start looking at your clubs in a new way.
Hit that 7-iron from 160 yards, but you'll need it from 100 yards, too, to keep the ball out of the stiff breezes that tickle the holes on the upper part of the course. Ever pitch that 8-iron out of the rough and run the ball to the hole? You will here.
Every shot is like a multiple-choice quiz.
And shine that putter for the large greens with tiering and tricky undulations that could make a Titleist seasick.
"This course makes you think," Morgan Hill pro Jeff Bebbino said. "On every shot, there are several options, and none of them is wrong. It's just the way you want to play the shot. On too many courses, you hit your driver off the tee, figure out your distance to the flag and yank an iron out of your bag. It's automatic. It's boring. Nothing is boring here."
That's because course designer Kelly Blake Moran has used his imagination, too. The layout is full of blind shots, sloping fairways and 300 feet of elevation changes -- but really without gimmickry. Landing areas have been flattened, and Moran -- thankfully bucking current design trends -- has cut down on the sand traps. Instead, the greens are guarded by contouring.
From the tee boxes, there are options, too.
Split fairways will taunt players with gambling instincts. For instance, on No. 10, a downhill, 370-yard par-4, golfers can hit driver down the left side, hoping to leave a short iron or wedge into the green. But the tee shot will flirt with a pond. Feeling timid? Okay, hit the 4-iron down the right side, well short of the pond. But the second shot will require an 8-iron over the water. It's sort of the Dirty Harry approach to golf: "Do you feel lucky today, punk? Well, do you?"
JNC,
As it says in the review:
"....it's a multiple choice quiz", and as the Pro said:
"...there are several options, and none of them is wrong. It's just the way you want to play the shot."I'd say that it sounds like a course where KBM has given the player options, i.e wedge is practical if it's soft or mildly blowing, there's room to bump it or knock it on if isn't, or, it's feasible to use some combination of approaches at anytime. That's like the best of all worlds.