1Start off strong on this hole since this may be your last shot at birdie for a while.2With such a steep decline to the right, you O-Bviously don’t want to miss there. However, missing left might help your ball hitch a ride in a passing car.3Trent Jones’ signature design feature comes into play as balls heading left, really go left and vice versa.4Built in the early 2000’s to make way for the development of the Jones Cottages.5Your eye will tell you to draw or hook this ball but don’t believe what you see. Trouble lurks left and right.6Welcome to “Treetop’s Signature Hole”. As RO-Bert Trent Jones Sr and Harry Melling pulled up to the 120-foot perch in 1985, RTJ inquired why the resort was called Sylvan. Loo7Sitting just behind this tee box is an old railroad grade called Potato Railroad.8Only a few of the 81 holes at Treetops have water coming into play, and this peninsula green quite possibly has the most…beware on that 2nd shot.9Island greens are a thing, but our “Island Tee” is a rarity. And we’re not talking beverages here.Island greens are a thing, but our “Island Tee” is a rarity. And we’re not talking beverages here.10If you’re blazing through, take a gander from the back tees to admire the beauty and stare at this beast of a challenge for an uphill par 5.11Your mind might tell you hit a hook around the bunker, but we advise against it. If the shot carries the bunker it leaves awkward shots from the left rough.12Fido returns with a dogleg left that temps a hug to the left side. Keeping the ball right of the bunkers is the safer play. Use the pole barn building’s roof in the distance as y13Ending up on the wrong level of the green means a 3 putt is in your future. Take enough club for a left pin. If you don’t want you ball to drown in water or the bunker, take enou14Make sure you head to the right after this hole to get to the 15th or you’ll end up back on the 8th tee…remember all those balls you lost there?15Here’s the break we promised. But Trent-Jones did sneak in some difficult putting and a hole sprinkled with bunkers.16A long drive back up the ridge leaves you at this short hole playing along the ridge.17This hole will tease you into trying to hit it over the bunkers on the right but there is more room left than meets the eye.The ridge cutting this green in half requires you to hit your approach onto the right level.18If you’re not going for it in two, it is prO-Bably best to lay your layup shot back to approximately 120 – 150 yards.
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