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Hole 1

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From The Tee For an opening hole, Palmer 1 is a challenging way to start the round.

From The Fairway It has a very wide fairway on a side hill that slopes from left to right. The green is not visible from the tee.

On The Green The wall on the left side is out of bounds all the way, so the safe shot appears to be to the roomy right side. But large, grown, branchy mango trees block the green on the right side.

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Hole 2

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From The Tee Palmer 2 is short for a par five, right around 450 yards from most of the tees. The fairway is not tight either. But there is a bottle neck of mature mangoes right around where most drives from the tee shots land, and if you get in trouble with the trees and the tall bushes and weeds all over the surrounding rough, you are likely looking at bogey or even worse.

From The Fairway o compound this ambush, a number of fairway bunkers are placed to catch most play-out shots from the rough will land and long hitters from the tee who don’t hit one really long here.

On The Green Those long enough to reach this green in two must stay on the left side of the bottleneck to avoid the overgrown trees on the right, and carry the cluster of bunkers right around 300 yards from the tees.

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Hole 3

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From The Tee

From The Fairway Easy hole. Wide, wide fairway. Bunkers on the left are not a prO-Blem, there is enough room on the right to hit even an imperfect drive

On The Green t’s not a long hole, although approach shots are uphill, with bunkers all over the right side of the putting green.

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Hole 4

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From The Tee ne only has to deal with bunkers, distance, and wind. From the tees, one immediately senses those signature white O-B fences on the left and the right, and the light sand of the bunkers also on both sides.

From The Fairway

On The Green The sensible plan here is to hit a decent drive, a decent fairway wood to the left of the green, and show off with a precisely executed wedge shot close to the pin. Or somewhere within a makeable putt to the hole.

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Hole 5

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From The Tee .

From The Fairway Palmer 5, with an average Par 3 length of between 150 to 170 yards, has a wide enough fairway, and with a beautiful pond between the tees and the green, it is a wonderful, postcard-pretty golf scene.

On The Green The easy but gutless play to this hole is to deliberately use a club that will not reach the many bunkers surrounding this green. For most, this would be a pitching wedge or a 9 iron to land your ball safely to the widest, trouble-free area, which is right before the green.

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Hole 6

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From The Tee It is a duplicitous layout. The drive is plain straight down. Then water about 200 yards from the tees. The fairway bends a bit left here and then right towards the green with water and bunkers on the right all the way around the green.

From The Fairway The drive is inviting, it is a super wide fairway that baits plenty of players to whale away with their tee shots to get as close to the water for a shorter shot across the water to the continuation of the fairway on the left.

On The Green You cannot over-club to the left to cross the water, because they put more bunkers on the left there and again, around the green to catch players with a phO-Bia for water.

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Hole 7

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From The Tee

From The Fairway

On The Green There is big water all across the front of the green. There is a huge mango tree to the right, and many more to the left and the back of the green.

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Hole 8

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From The Tee This shortish Par 4 is not to be taken lightly, even more so because as players look down the seemingly very wide fairway, one may not account for the big, big mango trees on the left or the wide wide bunkers on the right

From The Fairway Players should also note that the rest of the wide fairway is covered in nasty, thick rough.

On The Green ne cannot hit the ball too far down past the 150 yard marker either, because the closer you get to the hole, the steeper the downhill lie gets for the approach. Over a wide pond to the very edge of the green, which is severely canted from top left to bottom right, with nothing but bunkers waiting in the back.

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Hole 9

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From The Tee Par 4, what you see is what you get. Out of bounds on the right, water on the left. The drive is downhill and you will need all the roll you can get here because there is water also guarding the front of the green.

From The Fairway On the plus side, you can see all the trouble, nothing is hidden from you, even the big bunker guarding the green if you manage to just barely carry the water on its front side.

On The Green Greenside shots on this hole are no bargains, as the severe slope of the green makes estimating the roll of the ball difficult, and three putts common.

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Hole 10

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From The Tee Even long hitters are in a quandary here. An all out drive will be too long, and can reach the water, especially when the ground is dried up and the down slopes can keep the ball rolling to the duck pond.

From The Fairway Although it is not difficult to come within a short iron to the green, the lies will be downhill, and easy to catch fat into the duck pond or to catch thin and skull it into that bunker only a sadist would place where it is.

On The Green Well, maybe the green on this hole is not as precarious as the green on number 8, but it’s close. The reads are not difficult, but the exact putting stroke and touch to avoid three putting. Or worse.

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Hole 11

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From The Tee

From The Fairway Eleven is a rest hole. Any half decent drive into the reasonably roomy fairway will clear the 150 yard marker and will let a medium or short iron or the now universally popular hybrid club into wide green with enough depth to hold any shot from the fairway over the one front bunker.

On The Green The best entry to the green is from the left side, that is why there are three bunkers stationed there to keep long drivers honest.

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Hole 12

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From The Tee .

From The Fairway Eleven is a rest hole. Any half decent drive into the reasonably roomy fairway will clear the 150 yard marker and will let a medium or short iron or the now universally popular hybrid club into wide green with enough depth to hold any shot from the fairway over the one front bunker.

On The Green The best entry to the green is from the left side, that is why there are three bunkers stationed there to keep long drivers honest. The right side is strictly off limits.

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Hole 13

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From The Tee It’s short (340 from the blues), but narrow and narrower and narrowest as it gets closest to the green.

From The Fairway Out of bounds to the left. Water all the way to the right. The gutless shot is to hit a fairway wood or a hybrid down somewhere near the 150 marker, leaving another hybrid to the mouth of the green.

On The Green Finding the small green surrounded by bunkers is like finding a par in a sand stack (“a needle in a haystack”, get it?).

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Hole 14

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From The Tee A medium length Par 5 that doglegs right, around a bunker and mango trees at the corner of the leg, this is a clever hole that can be attacked just as cleverly as well.

From The Fairway Stick to the left of the wide fairway, do not be tempted to drive near the hole, past the bunker and the trees.

On The Green t is a large green with only one bunker to contend with. One can even leave the third shot safely off to the sides or the back of the green and still get up and down easily for a par.

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Hole 15

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From The Tee Better to hit just a bit past the 150 marker and get a level, flat lie for your approach.

From The Fairway here is enough room on the right from the tees, without bringing the visible bunkers into play, as they are just visual hazards that can be avoided altogether.

On The Green This is a complicated green. It has a gargantuan break left to right on pitches coming in from the left of the green after lay ups to avoid the front bunkers. There are crazy breaks everywhere and speed is not easy to gauge as the undulations keep the grain irregular.

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Hole 16

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From The Tee There are huge bunkers in front, about the size of a tennis court and shaped like a sunbathing octopus, with mango trees beside it by the green, for good measure. The left side is open, no bunker to contend with but usually too far from the pin placement.

From The Fairway There is no way around a solid par except to hit a shot over the massive bunker into usually stiff winds. Of course, one can always pitch up and putt down for a bargain par, but anything into the sand is a likely bogey.

On The Green The long term smart plan of attack here is to over club on your tee shot, as there is no meaningful hazard in the back of the green. Some players, on really windy rounds, hit driver here over the green and come back for a sure bogey and some times, a lucky par.

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Hole 17

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From The Tee There is nothing good along the left side of the tees. There is a barely visible bunker below the left embankment, which if you unfortunately have to come and visit it, turns out to be the size of a cement mixer.

From The Fairway We told you evil things lurk on the left side. There’s mud and a gully there, and big old mean leafy and branchy acacia trees that don’t give your approach shot any chance, not even if you take a 2-clublength drop for a penalty.

On The Green Try and hit your drive left of the fairway bunkers visible from the tees.

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Hole 18

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From The Tee The Palmer 18 is a long Par 5 dogleg right that is a minefield riddled with hazards that can still derail a decent or even better than average round.

From The Fairway There are substantial bunkers to the left of the fairway, forcing you to consider the right side which slopes down into the stream that runs all along the corner of the dogleg.

On The Green Shortcutting across the dogleg is no bargain, because if you manage to carry it off, your stance will still be uneven or sidehill, with your ball likely in the thick rough of the grass.

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