Holes where due to the terrain a lay-up is likely needed off the tee followed by a longer full fairway wood shot to the green or maybe not even reaching the green are awkward. Similar where after a full tee shot a short second is needed as a lay-up and then a full long club to the green.
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There's a hole like this at a course I play in a charity scramble every year. It's a par 5 where the fairway runs almost perpendicular to the teeing area, but it also slopes towards a ravine. Driver is too much club, and a 3 wood is very risky because if you can potentially knock it through the fairway into the woods or have it catch the slope and run down into the ravine.
However, if you hit a safe drive to the center of the fairway, you still have a 240+ yard second shot with a creek in front of the green, and the lay-up fairway has that creek at the far end, the ravine at the short end, and falls off into deep woods to both the left and right.
I think the best way to play the hole for me is probably 3 or 5 wood off the tee, then maybe a 6 or 7 iron, then a wedge. For really long hitters it could be something like a 3 iron tee shot followed by a 3 wood approach. I've always thought it was a strange hole.