Thank you, John.
The 12th hole at Delaware Park Meadows in Buffalo plays over the same type of tree that Jason describes here. It's a downhill par three of 185 yards and you need to hoist your ball over it, sling it around it on the right side or (the most daring and dangerous of the trio) pound a stinger beneath. You empty out at the green, situate in "Baller Corner." It's across the bike/runner path from the courts where all the area's best come to play pick-up hoops. It's where Christian Laettner learned to be even tougher. The confluence of the two sports is worth a meditatiive moment.
No time to pause. The 13th (also a par three) plays uphill in an angular direction, beneath a canopy of trees. No options here; you must flight it high enough that it will release up the slope, yet not so altitudinally that iit will make contact with the highest branches. Both green sites are unremarkable, as is most of the course. It's the pair of tree holes that do everything for DPM that Jason Thurman describes.
(Scribe's note: I seem to have invented the words "meditative" and "altitudinally," but I suspect you understand their meaning.)
What do they mean? Nearly a plethora of opinions; some monosyllabic, others profound.
~Navigate the small sweats in life as best you can;
~Find a way to manage the largest obstacles;
~Risk a road less traveled;
~You must be flexible enough to consider both Icarus and Daedalus;
~The end of a challenging journey isn't always glorious; the glory is in the journey, not the end.