The 9th continues generally south west and is a long par 4 to finish the nine. It is a slight dogleg left with the ubiquitous waste area on the inside and a center-line bunker in the fairway. Interestingly, the center bunker is out of reach off the tee for almost everybody playing from appropriate tees. Although not obvious from the ground, the indentation of the waste areas into the fairway are nicely shaped as breakers emulating the nearby ocean.
The tee shot entices you to the safer looking right side. The second shot approach is more difficult from the right side. The pot bunker is in your mind, but is really out of reach. The picture is skewed to the left, so there is more room out to the right that is cut off in the picture.
The usually long second shot faces a lot of rumpled ground short of the green and a huge knob on the right front of the green. Running the ball in to the left side should be possible, but the ground movement could play havoc with it. Long right is a deep depression that is to be avoided at all costs according to the caddie. The center-line pot bunker provides a visual distraction on the right side, but is really not in play.
An interesting feature of the hole are the waste area indentations. On shots pulled left you could be trapped in some very difficult lies. Despite the rake showing here, all sand areas are supposedly played as waste areas. You can ground your club in any bunker. Sort of the opposite of Whistling Straits.
A view of the green from back left showing some of the movement in the green.