1Donald Ross sets the tone with a visually pleasing first hole where an elevated tee presents a picturesque tree-lined landing area.The fairway bunker located along the right side of the landing area offers the player a choice:Play short of the bunker and hit a long iron into the shallow green or fly the bunker and be rewarded with short iron to the green.2Hole 2 is a hint of Scotland. The Blind tee shot, a common characteristic found on Scottish courses,is the initial challenge. And the large right hand side fairway bunker at the top of the ridge must also be navigated.Take care with the approach shot as the angle to the green is the opposite of a false front. The approach and front of the green slopes away from the golfer causing an aggressively3The third hole has two positions for the white tees …392 or 426 yards. But either tee box presents an uphill tee shot which lengthens the effective yardage.The green slopes from back to front and receives the approach shots well, but penalizes the shot that carries long leaving a tricky and extremely quick downhill putt. Approach shot4demanding quartet of par threes is a 195 yard long iron or hybrid shot into a narrow opening tothe green. Slightly offline shots will be swallowed by either of the two flanking greenside bunkers. Once on the green, expect much movement as the green is pitched from back left 5Hole 5 is beautifully contoured fairway with a flowing dogleg left featuring a bunker on the left which must be navigated off the tee.The player’s approach shot to the green is blind and the fairway slopes down to the green. Too much club or too strong a play and the ball will carom over the green; beware as th6It’s Northward on this challenging par 3. Use enough club to carry the ominous oversized bunker that sits in front of the green.Miss hit the tee shot left and be bunkered. Miss hit right and you are faced with a downhill chip to a green that slopes sharply away. Hole 6 sports the largest green on the course7The seventh hole offers an Inviting tee shot becausethe subtle dogleg left fairway is one of the most generous on the golf course.The approach shot to the elevated green requires the player to move up a club to carry the full distance. Players are advised keep the approach shot below the hole as the putting s8The 8th hole is a relatively short par 5 with plenty of strategicchoices. Long ball hitters can try to fly the tee shot past the well placed fairway bunkers giving the player an opportunity to reach the green in two.Tee shots played short of the bunkers can lay up on a tabletop perched above a ravine… for 130 yard iron into a long green. Accuracy is critical because a deep bunker left and tw9A truly classic design requiring golfers to play up the hill to a well bunkered green showcasing a traditional clubhouse setting.The flanking fairway bunkers demand an accurate tee shot. And players are cautioned to take enough club to reach the elevated green fronted by a steeply sloped approach.Prevailing winds cannot be felt from valley, but will stall a ball in midflight. The tiered green severely sloped from back to front is the course’s most difficult to navigate.10This hole begins with a blind tee shot to a doglegleft fairway that slopes hard from left to right. Long and strait will land through the fairway finding thick rough and tree trouble on the right.Typically, the player will have a short iron approach to the most narrow green on the golf course. Bunkers on either side of the green collect errant shots. Sand shots from these d11Hole eleven is a soft dogleg left featuring a blind second shot with the final 30 yards pitchedtoward the green. Players who hit their shot off the tee will face a murderer’s row of mature trees that force a punch out. Use one club less on the approach shot as the stated y12Number twelve is Southbound. A picture perfect hole that takes full advantage of its scenic setting.An elevated tee shot to a tear drop shaped green set in the valley and framed by artistically sculpted bunkers, with willowy fescue on the left and mature tree line on the right. A13The thirteenth is OGC’s signature hole… a classic Donald Ross “work of art”. At 378 yards, not overly lengthy, yet every shot is highly demanding.The tee shot must split the trees on left and the course’s only water hazard to the right. The second shot is a Mount Everest climb up a steep hill to a green with a false front 14The tee shot on the fourteenth hole is one of the few where the hole design works left to right and accuracy is most important.Cut the corner over fairway bunker for perfect positioning is the risk /reward opportunity.That perfect tee shot will leave a short iron into a pint-sized undulating green that plays tricks with the ball. The tee shot that veers offline will result in a lie of thick roug15The fifteenth begins with a tee box perched highabove a fairway that begins at the ridge base and maintains an uphill climb to the green.Tee shots must be played down the left side as the fairway slopes severely from left to right. Take an extra club on approach as uphill lie will add loft to your club. The inclined16Hole sixteen is a sweeping dogleg left with a significant fall-off left and uphill trees to the right. The tee shot that is long and slightly right will catch the small fairway pot17It’s Easterly with the prevailing winds on the courses longest par 3. Don’t be fooled.The typical downwind advantage is offset by the steady uphill climb to the elevated green. The left to right contoured fairway approach tends to kick the ball into the menacing smathe green. Seventeen is perhaps the most difficult green on the golf course to get up and down. Subtle undulations and a severe back to front slope demands caution.18The eighteenth hole is a seemingly wide open tee shot toa fairway that narrows as one approaches the landing area. The green setting is vintage Donald Ross: elevated, a visually deceptive false front, and bunkers to catch the commonly mThose hitting short right will find the deep greenside bunker in. And hitting long left results a downhill sand shot to a green that slopes sharply away.
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