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Hole 1

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From The Tee The first hole East is appropriately named Reveille, the wake-up hole, by its creator A. W. Tillinghast. In contrast to first hole West, this is an inviting hole, perhaps drivable.

From The Fairway

On The Green A relatively open fairway is flanked by two bunkers, but only the right bunker will threaten these long-hitting amateur golfers. An out of bounds on the right could entrap a sleepy, not-yet-alert competitor. At the green, a spine runs back to front, and a perpendicular ridge at the rear sets the stage for some testy flagstick placements. As the 1980 U.S. Senior Open program states, this is a fine

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Hole 2

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From The Tee The 1923 brochure announcing the opening of Winged Foot explained this hole’s name as referring to the golfer being O-Bliged to hold a left — or, as horse racers would put it, a pole position — to keep out of trouble. This hole will be a two-shotter for most competitors. But the challenge (as will be the case for most Winged Foot East holes) will be found on the green, which slopes sharply from ba

From The Fairway

On The Green “A dollar bill,” said the 1923 brochure, “couldn’t lie level on either of the first two greens with their pitches and rolls.”

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Hole 3

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From The Tee When East was renovated in 2013, the original false front of this hole’s green was restored.

From The Fairway

On The Green The change reduced the landing area and encouraged any short shots to spin back and circle down the hill, leaving the golfer within a tricky chip over the left bunker. Formerly, this hole was considered one of the course’s easiest — a source of routine pars and numerous birdies.

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Hole 4

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From The Tee It has a name that recognizes the two ponds that menace the golfer and is one of the prettiest holes on the course.

From The Fairway It is also a double dogleg and of such unusual character that the 1923 opening brochure imagined it becoming “nationally famous.” The tee shot crosses water and heads to an elevated fairway,

On The Green from which the first dogleg unfolds. The golfers’ second shots will be watched closely, with one or both of the team’s players potentially choosing to go for the green. RO-Berto De Vicenzo was able to hit this green in two and two-putt for a birdie in the 1980 U.S. Senior Open. This is a classic “Cape” hole, meaning that the golfer is challenged to attempt a high-risk, high-reward shot over a haza

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Hole 5

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From The Tee Shaped like a bootleg, this hole has been lengthened twice, most recently in 2013, by 30 yards. The golfer’s tee shot must be long and straight if he is to clear trees on the right and to avoid the left’s treacherous rough and awkward stances.

From The Fairway

On The Green The green is one of Tillinghast’s classic two-tiers, affording back flagstick positions behind a pronounced perpendicular spine.

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Hole 6

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From The Tee This is the second of four great par 3s… and a long one.

From The Fairway Golfers will hit irons to a dramatically sloped small green, stalking an essential — an uphill putt — while knowing that a shot landing too short will roll back off the green’s false front. First putts above the hole may run off the green as well. Therein lies the Trouble.

On The Green

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Hole 7

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From The Tee The first six holes at Winged Foot East track inexorably the eastern perimeter of the property, following a short-long, short-long, short-long pattern, as they weave their way through a depressed hollow in the property. For the seventh hole, the golfer ascends to the plain-like topography that comprises the rest of Winged Foot. From this point on, the terrain resembles that of the West Course.

From The Fairway

On The Green The seventh hole, the first on this terrain, presents one of the most difficult par 4s at Winged Foot. The second shot, long to begin with, is made more difficult by an elongated, narrow green, tightly bunkered on both sides. A back-right flagstick position is inaccessible putting from the front of the green.

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Hole 8

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From The Tee Played as a par 5 by the members and a par 4 in this championship, this hole emerges as pretty short, even for a par 4.

From The Fairway

On The Green The hole “hooks” left about 250 yards from the tee, a dogleg design that asks for a “lay-up” drive, unless the player decides to go for broke over the left trees, courting a short chip to the green. Even then, he faces a green that is one of the most difficult in the full 36. The green is domed and incorporates a series of hump-back rolls and other severe undulations.

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Hole 9

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From The Tee A dogleg slightly to the left, this hole favors a

From The Fairway drive to the right-hand side of the fairway, a shot that opens up a green tightly bunkered on both left and right.

On The Green Another unique green layout, unlike any on both courses, was here created from the fertile imagination of Mr. Tillinghast. There is a deep perpendicular swale at the back of the green, affording beguiling flagstick placements, especially on the right tucked behind a knoll.

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Hole 10

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From The Tee This is one of the most scenic holes on the course, with the view from the tee taking in the full beauty of the east side of Winged Foot’s Tudor clubhouse. In days past, the green was bowered by an enormous elm — the largest in Westchester County — whose hanging branches would deflect and redirect too-high second shots into the bunkers. Sadly, the tree fell victim to the Dutch elm disease a number

From The Fairway

On The Green

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Hole 11

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From The Tee At 9 yards longer than 10 East, is this hole drivable as well? What hath God wrought?

From The Fairway

On The Green Any attempt to drive the green on this dogleg demands a 350-yard drive and then some, over trees to an extremely narrow green that is tightly bunkered. The green itself is steeply pitched from back to front, with a ridge defending any back-right hole locations. Flagstick positions on the lower part of the green will result in lightning-fast putts from above the hole and sharply breaking side-hill

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Hole 12

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From The Tee A demanding par 5 befitting its name, the 12th hole is the longest on the East Course. In the 1950s,

From The Fairway Winged Foot pro Claude Harmon, on his way to a record-setting score of 61 on East, reached this hole in two; using his persimmon driver for both shots. So, yes, the second shot with the driver was hit from the fairway. He then sunk the putt for eagle.

On The Green

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Hole 13

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From The Tee If the West is a course of great par 4s, the 13th hole contributes mightily to the East’s reputation of great par 3s.

From The Fairway

On The Green The name Cameo likens this elevated green to the raised carving in a cameo brooch and brings to mind the jewel-like appearance of this green, mounted in a setting of bunkers and trees.

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Hole 14

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From The Tee The 14th hole is a classic dogleg par 4,

From The Fairway

On The Green finished off with a steeply sloped green tightly guarded by both left and right bunkers. The unfortunate player finding any of the near bunkers will be presented with an almost impossible up-and-down.

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Hole 15

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From The Tee The 1980 Senior Open program described the 15th hole as a “short par four.” Or nowadays is it a massively long par 3?

From The Fairway

On The Green The four-ball format will, in any case, invite the contenders to try to drive this domed, hardto- hold green. Yet there is a pond in front, a bunker and woods to the left, and a bunker and a brook to the right that will intimidate all but the supremely confident veteran or the supremely daring. This is a great spectator hole from behind the green.

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Hole 16

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From The Tee A wide-open fairway and a straight uphill trudge to a very wide green would seem to buoy the late-round “hopes” of a player.

From The Fairway

On The Green Yet a high front-to-back spine on the green dauntingly cuts the green in half for those people striving for a birdie.

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Hole 17

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From The Tee Lightning did strike on the 17th hole in 1972 as Suzie Maxwell Berning hit her persimmon driver within 20 feet and sank the putt for birdie. That gained her two strokes on the competition and basically delivered her the U.S. Women’s Open title. Her driver is enshrined in the Winged Foot clubhouse.

From The Fairway

On The Green

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Hole 18

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From The Tee In medal-play championships, short par 4s are scorned as not challenging. But in this match-play format, this particular short par 4 could create great finales for any contenders getting this far.

From The Fairway

On The Green The hole offers one of the more readable greens at Winged Foot. That means putts going in on top of putts could easily produce closing heroics.

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