Par 5
590 | 573 | 525 | 498 yards
The 17th is a very cool hole that requires 2 good shots to clear the cross bunkers you see off the tee. The tee shot must negotiate 2 large bunkers, not really very clear from this picture. A large bunkers on the right comes in at 230 yards and requires a carry of 280 yards (from the tips). Adjacent to that is a bunker on the left, just slightly ahead. This one is 270 to reach and 290 to carry. Threading a shot between these two doesn't leave a lot of margin for error, though it is not an impossible task.
A view here shows the bunkers that are in play off the tee. Even from these tees is 300 yards remaining. To the cross bunkers you have about 140 yards. Clearing those bunkers requires significantly more distance as the sit at the base of a significant elevation rise. Like I said, getting beyond those bunkers in two requires two really good shots.
Another view even with the right fairway bunker.
The layup area short of the bunkers is generous. The best play is to layup as close as possible to the bunkers as you still have 160 uphill to the green from the edge of the sand.
Some of the barren wind swept trees to the left of the cross bunkers.
This is the view as you climb the ridge. You can just see the flag stick on the horizon.
Hitting your third shot in requires negotiating yet more sand atop the ridge. The green is curled in behind sand that protrudes from the left side. The sand wraps all the way around the green effectively forming a peninsula you must land on. There is room to miss to the right of the green. This green is relatively flat with the surrounding fairway so a miss is not a hard shot back onto the green.
The caddie lasering the flag to let one of my players know "you're pretty close. pitch it on"
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