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risk. There are penalty areas left and long and the closer you get to the green, the trickier the pitch becomes. You’ll have a downhill lie to an elevated green that has a swale in the left-center ready to catch any shot that does not have the required spin to control the ball. The more prudent play is to hit a shot no more than 210 yards off the tee and leave yourself a full 90 to 110 yards into the green. This way you are able to hit a full shot and control the spin and thus the ball as it hits the green.”
uphill, and is surrounded by trouble. The green is also small and has a nasty false front that’s particularly narrow, so your tee shot needs to carry the full distance to the center of the green. But no farther! Anything off the back will lead to a big number on your card.
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conservative play, with a three or five wood, laying it back to about 180 on a flat lie. If you hit between those two distances, you have an awkward hook lie, with the ball above your feet, something you really don’t want going into that green with water on the left. For the second shot, the ideal play is to the middle of the green, maybe a bit to the right side. It’s narrow, and there’s a lot of trouble all around.”
Hollow Brook Golf Club, Hole 11
Hollow Brook Golf Club
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Apawamis Club
Hole 2 • 521 yards • par 5
Relatively short par 5s make great risk-and- reward holes, as the downhill second hole at Angelbrook perfectly demonstrates. An aggressive driver of the ball can carry the cross bunker that cuts into the fairway. That
Hole 11 • 420 yards • par 4
Watch the wind and use your head when you tee it up on the number-one handicap hole at Hollow Brook, says head pro Phil Eyre. “Being in the fairway off the tee is key,” he says. “You can be aggressive with the driver and hold it tight to the waste area on the left to get a nice, flat lie, leaving you about 140 yards into the three-tier green. Or you can make a more
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Anglebrook Golf Club
Hole 16 • 186 yards • par 3
The final par 3 at Apawamis can give you plenty of need for “Consolation,” as its name on the scorecard appears. It’s long, plays
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