Thank you Joe.
This hole plays from 290 to 315 yards. The first photo is from about 200 yards out. The hole moves gradually uphill for 200 yards. At the crest one has a flat lie and full swing with the putting surface visible. The next 50 yards are slightly downhill, leaving an awkward downhill lie to an uphill approach. The final 50 yards are dead flat but leave a dicey uphill pitch.
Any approach short will have a dead bounce and trundle back down the hill. The green is 80 feet at it’s widest and 60 feet deep in the center. With the exception of a full wedge any pitch landing halfway back is over as the greens are extremely firm. In other words the golfer has about 10 yards of depth to work with on an uphill shot.
Back in the 70’s I thought about this hole early in the round, knowing it would likely be the difference maker in shooting par of 36.
This is the 7th at my beloved (in the truest meaning of the word). Rolling Hills CC in Ripley, TN - a cotton field when the course was built in 1970.
I don’t expect you to like it but offer it as an example of quirky, awkward and challenging design that surely exists in small town America that you’ll never experience - or even want to.
I’m 63 and dreamed the other night that I was showing Rory around the course. He loved it by the way. You would too.
Cheers.
Mike Hendren