The current 9th hole (formerly No. 18) on my old home course in college at EKU, Arlington (now referred to the University Club at Arlington.
The hole plays as a shorter par-5 for everyday play at 474 yards. Players may drive over a fairly deep, but maintained gully to a flat area in the fairway. However, many, particularly the longer hitters, attempt to drive through the flat where the fairway continues down a very steep hill into a second gully, where there is a small flat area, presenting a much shorter approach into the green.
When I was in college 10-14 years ago, only the very long hitters could consistently reach the flat in the second gully (it's ~320 yards from the tips, which was a pretty big knock back then, even with the assist of the big slope). I do not hit the ball very far at all and my drives would rarely even challenge the hill. However, there were days where the tees may have been up and the wind may have been helping and I hit it just so where I would tumble over the edge...but I would never reach the bottom. Arlington has Zoysia fairways and when I played there, they kept them a little longer, so the ball wouldn't roll very far, so I would occasionally get hung up on the side of that hill.
Playing an approach from that spot was very difficult. You're hitting a club with little loft (in my case a wood) from a very steep downhill lie, to a green situated another huge hill and placed to the right...oh and there was a front bunker too. I have no idea why I would have even attempted a shot like that, but I did a few times. The more prudent play is to lay-up, but even then, you have a mid-iron off with a terrible stance, just with a slightly less awkward target.
The best way to play the hole, I discovered when I passed my PGA Playing Ability Test: push-slice the drive off a tree into the ESA (now O.B.), hybrid-lay-up over the trees back into the fairway and almost hole the third shot.
