What do you think of this?

[Matthew Schulte]

Mike:

Do you really think it looks like a Fazio course?  That was the very reason I posted the picture without identifying whose it was.  I too see similarities to Strantz in the bunkering of this hole and the generous fairway left making the hole longer on that line.  

Scott:

A CLUE well spotted!

[Rick Shefchik]

I take it that it doesn't get too windy in Bend, Ore. This reminds me somewhat of the carry over the water on #16 at Hazeltine (although the rest of the hole doesn't, at all) -- and even though that carry is less than 200 yards, on a windy day it can be as intimidating as hell.

Not a good opening hole under circumstances, in my book. But not bad for, say, a #16...

[Matthew Schulte]

Rick:

Actually I was told it usually gets fairly windy at Pronghorn, hence the width in the fairway I suspect.  I doubt it plays into the prevailing wind.

[Seth Berliner]

Rick:

Actually I was told it usually gets fairly windy at Pronghorn, hence the width in the fairway I suspect.  I doubt it plays into the prevailing wind.

It can get fairly windy there, especially in the afternoons,  and the prevailing wind on this hole would be off of the right.

[Mike_Cirba]

Mike:

Do you really think it looks like a Fazio course?  That was the very reason I posted the picture without identifying whose it was.  I too see similarities to Strantz in the bunkering of this hole and the generous fairway left making the hole longer on that line.  

Scott:

A CLUE well spotted!

Matthew,

Actually, it looks quite a bit like Galloway National, Pine Hill, and World Woods Pine Barrens.  That's not necessarily a bad thing but it's distinctive in the sense of using the impressive looking, "intimidating" looking waste area in a place where it can be easily carried or otherwise avoided.