Streamsong Blue Hole 14

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Par 5
545 | 510 | 489 | 452 yards

Walking from the challenging 13th, you may be feeling a little down if you found any of the bunkers on the last.  Well cheer up!  You're about to face another test.  The 14th wraps around a pond.  The tee boxes are on a narrow bridge of land between water.  You must hit your tee shot over the water to a fairway running to your right.

The fairway is elevated above the waters edge a good 20 feet at least.  Long hitters can try to carry the bunkers.  It is a 260 yard carry over the left one from the tips.  While visually intimidating, the tee shot is not that difficult.  There is plenty of room if you want to bail left.  Anything hit left of the bunkers will almost certainly find the fairway.  The 15th fairway runs adjacent, and is connected to this fairway on the left.  Only 2 islands of natural grassland sit as any kind of hazard within this sea of fairway.

From the forward tee, the water is far less daunting and you need only cut off a small amount which should not come into play.

As you walk from the tee, the fairway rises until you are even with the bunkers you saw at the waters edge from the tee.

The fairway is large for your second shot.  Water does run down the length of the right side.  A large swath of natural grassland comprises a hazard off the fairway to the left.

A close up of the natural grass area.  Behind it starts the bunker complex that runs up to the left edge of the green.

On your second shot, after hitting over the naturalized area you will find a wide landing area between 150 and 100 yards out.  Inside of 100 the hole squeezes down with sand both left and right.

Approaching the green, there is sand short left, and a single bunker short right.  That bunker is placed mostly for protection on long second shots into the green.  Other than this one small bunker there is room to hit over to the right side of the green, making this a hole you can try for in two.

Hitting left into this green is one particularly bad spot to get into.  The bunker there is the least of your worries, and if struck over there you will no doubt hope to find your ball in the sand.  Next to the sand it is very thick fescue with some bushes thrown in.  It is unlikely you will find your ball if it goes in there.

A view back down the hole from the green.  The green is relatively small.  It is circular and doesn't feature much undulation

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