Stone Eagle Golf Club /Back Nine

[Yancey_Beamer]

#10


#10 Green


#11


#11 Green


#12


#13


#13 Green


#14


#14 Green


#15


#16


#16 Green


#17


#17 Approach


#17 Green


#18


#18 Green

[ed_getka]

Yancey,
  Thanks for posting the pix. How is the course playing? What is the wind like up there?

[Dan_Callahan]

That course sure looks like fun.

[Tom_Doak]

Yancey:

Thanks for the last photo.  Believe it or not, it's the first picture I've seen that shows how that 18th green hangs out in space if you lay up short left, with nothing but void and the mountains ten miles away for a background.  It's possibly the scariest shot on any of my courses [and it has some strong competition!].

[Yancey_Beamer]

The Card of the  Course
#1,par4,402yards
#2,par4,398yards
#3,par3,164yards
#4,par4,464yards
#5,par4,418yards
#6,par4,364yards
#7,par3,218yards
#8,par5,501yards
#9,par4,418yards
#10,par4,386yards
#11,par4,404yards
#12,par3,153yards
#13,par5,548yards
#14,par4,415yards
#15,par3,185yards
#16,par4,352yards
#17,par5,512yards
#18,par4,499yards
Par71,6801yards

[Yancey_Beamer]

Ed,
The course plays well and is grown in satisfactorily.
Wind was not present when I was there to play and
photograph the course.

[Michael Robin]

A couple of details that are not readily apparent from Yancey's fine photos:

#11 - You have several options on this tee. You can hit an iron/5 wood to the right of the fairway bunker or you can try and drive the green by flying said bunker and threading the needle between the desert on the right, and the greenside bunker on the left.

#13 - The driving area is obscured by the 1st bunker in the photo. There is a generous amount of room on the left side of this hole, both on the tee shot and for the second shot across the ravine. It lulls you into taking this path, but the green is so severe from left to right that this path of play will lead to bogey more often than par. It is a more bold line down the right, flirting with the bunkers off the tee that will lead to more run in the fairway, and possibly give you a go at the green. However, if you end up in one of these fairway bunkers, you most likely won't make it across the ditch on your second, and bogey is likely again. I thought this was a dramatic and outstanding par 5.

#14 - The tee shot is reminiscent of the 11th at Pasatiempo. You want to hit driver to minimize the distance on the second, but you have to be increasingly more accurate the farther up the fairway you go, and you better stay right.

#18 - This is a wicked tee shot. There is a rise on the right side of the fairway that will be an easier line off the tee, but will take away much needed distance on this long hole. The bold play is up the left trying to reach a downslope that will forward your ball another 20 yds, but you definately bring the desert outcropping into play as evidenced by my double-bogey 6.

[Steve Curry]

Tom,

What a great green site for the 18th, love the backdrop emulation on the left side.

Steve

[Sean_A]

Yancey

Thanks for the photos!  This looks quite a tough course with all the carries from the tee.  I spose the carries are a bit like The Road, visiually more intimidating than they really are.

Tom, a few comments:  

The 10th green looks like a natural place for flooding waters to flow like a river through the course.  Is this area prone to flash flood type rains?

#11 is a great looking hole!  How far is it to the bunker on the left and the rocks which pinch the fairway right?

Do you think the rock outcropping short right of the green on #12 would look better removed?  Also, even though the hole is a shortish par three, wouldn't this open up a fairway alternative for those folks too intimidated to go at the green.  Besides these points, the neat grass growing around this rock area looks goofy!  

Also, was there any thought to pulling the back right greenside bunker to allow more chance of a bank shot off the hill?

#18 also looks like a superb hole.  

Ciao

Sean

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