A par-5 of reasonable length (481 yards), this should not be a difficult hole. It's turned 90 degrees from the second hole, but there is another fence with another out-of-bounds all down the left hand side. On the right are trees, and beyond them the fourth fairway. Right is not completely dead here, although it makes for a tough shot. Definitely a three-shot hole, a massive drive is not absolutely necessary here. (This is one of my problems; I see the green 500 yards away and feel like I have to crush it. But I could hit my 5-wood out there 200 yards in the fairway, and then hit a 4-hybrid another 180 yards in the fairway, and then have a simple 100 yard wedge to the green. Easy.
Tee shot at three. The green is straight ahead*.
*In the next county
But I never approach it that way; I haul off and try to kill my driver, which results in a wild hook out onto the road OB left or, when I really make sure not to hook, a towering push into the fourth fairway 100 yards right.
Halfway down the fairway, you can almost see the green from here
There is a massive bunker on the front right, extending most of the way down the right side of the green, and a severe drop-off and trees to the left. (I've been nestled down under the trees at the bottom of the hill more times than I care to remember.)
100 yards out; giant bunker on the right of the green,
knobby hills and severe drop off to the left
Strategy: 5-wood into fairway; 4-hybrid into the fairway, wedge onto green. Two putts. PAR
