Played today….. question….. what is up with hole 14? It was an impossible drive straight at the hole, which our caddies said you should go for it. You have no fairway to land it and bunkers everywhere blind.
The green is small and perched with steep sides on back and left side. I think you should take an iron to the right and then take your chances with a short iron approach. The green is so challenging on the approach it wouldn’t be easy then. How this is the 14 handicap hole is strange.
Liked the green complexes and width but had 20 mph gusts today. Made it tough.
Ever played #2 at NGLA? The inspiration.
#2 at NGLA is certainly at least as confusing of a hole if you are into a stiff wind and don't go right at the green.
At NGLA you end up in a deep hole far, far below the green if you right rather than straight at the green-which appears anything but obvious.
At OB, the landing area is is blindish and needs multiple plays-without pro caddies I think you'd need a play or two or even three to get a feel for it.
(I think that is a very good thing as IMHO the best holes reveal themselves after repeat plays as opposed to vapid "all out in front of you" architecture)
But you can certainly see a ton of fairway way right-leaving you merely a wedge in, to a green which feeds from left to right form that angle.
Not sure what you mean by "impossible" to go straight at the green.
Were you playing the back tee into the 20 mph wind?
There's 40 plus yards between the fronting bunker and the green, and the green is another 35 yards deep, with fairway behind.
It's like 190 yards over the fronting bunker from the whites, maybe 225-235 over from the backs
But if you decide not to attempt the carry, there's a lot of fairway to the right of the bunkers you cite to the right
I would say the only criticism I would have of the hole is I've never seen a player NOT go right at the green.
I'm 61 and have yet to lay up from even the back tee(I play equal amounts from white and back) and I've played in every wind out there.