I played the Ford Field and River Club (Ford’s Plantation) last week. I gotta say I loved it. It is a tale of two extremely different nines. The front nine plays around some water but also through some stunning old gigantic Spanish Moss draped Live Oaks. The back nine is in an old rice paddy. Pete Dye supposedly said, “Give me enough sand and I will make you a golf course there. They did and he did. It is treeless, open, and fun. While I barely noticed the wind on the front nine the back nine blew like crazy.
I don’t remember playing a course with two more different nines. I thought I wouldn’t like it because they were going to be so vastly different, but I was wrong. What other courses have two very different nines? Do they work?