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Another huge green. Use backspin with a front pin, and use topspin or no roll to get to a back pin.
Not drivable, so don’t try it.
From the front tees, the safe play is to hit a C3 5-iron with backspin to cut the corner a bit. Rather, you can rotate left 3 times, hit a driver with topspin through a gap in the trees, and end up in the fairway or rough just past with only a 8-iron to PW approach shot!
From the middle box, stay straight and hit a B3 2-iron backspin to cut the corner a tad, keeping it on the fairway.
From the back box, you can rotate left twice and hit a 5-wood backspin C3 over the gap in the top of the trees. It leaves about the same 8-iron to PW approach shot as the front box shot does. If you don’t have a 5-wood, play a small hook straight ahead similar to the middle box shot.
Make sure you hit your tee shot far enough out so that the tree on the left doesn’t interfere with your approach shot! Here’s an example hole-out.
Drivable from all 3 tee boxes. You will bounce up onto the green (sometimes through the sand) and stick it for an eagle putt!
From the front box, hit a B.5 – 2.5 to C3 3-wood with backspin, depending on the wind. Here’s a great ace from there. Here’s a nice 3-wood over the top corner of the trees.
From the back-right box, hit the same angled shot with a backspin driver.
From the back-left box, use a backspin driver with a full C3.
From the front tees, hit a soft C3 driver or full 3-wood with backspin to end up on the green or just off it. Sometimes your ball will skip across the water here on its way to the green! Pay close attention to where the pin is here because if it’s all the way left and you barely get on the right side of the green, you’ll have a 200′ putt and will be 2-putting at best.
From the middle box, you can sometimes get there with the right wind or big enough hook, but if it doesn’t look like your C3 will get around the trees or clear the water, don’t try or you’re looking at par.
From the back box, just lay up in the fairway.
Blast an A1 drive with topspin down the fairway – the amount of hook you play depends on the wind. Make sure you stay left and get far enough so the trees on the right don’t get in your way! Watch out for the sideways “V” shaped sidewalk. That’s an unplayable lie.
Alternatively, you can play a straight B2-type drive with roll out to the left side of the fairway if you can hit it far enough to avoid having your approach shot blocked by trees on the right. Here’s a straight-in approach.
This approach shot is tough, especially with a low-lofted club. Sometimes it’s tough to attack the pin, so make sure you hit the green first!
Hit far down the fairway, try to at least get parallel to the end of the sand on the left. Usually a 2-iron to 3-wood 2nd shot. Here’s an example hole-out.
Don’t be short! If the pin is in front, aim for the end of the green and backspin the ball down the hill. Here’s an example hole-out.
You have to get across the road to be able to make this in 2. Most of the time you can just plow a straight driver. Sometimes you may have to click left once and hit a big A1 to get there. If you’re in the fairway, or first cut, you’ll have a 5-wood to driver approach shot. If you’re in the rough, good luck getting there in 2. It will take a great wind + a good hammer shot straight. In any case, you should try to carry the road, because you can’t get there in 2 anyway unless you do! Also, the ball doesn’t bounce/roll off the road like you’d expect in real life – it likes to just stick there. Here’s an example hole-out.
Always drivable with anywhere from a 3-iron to a 3-wood.
From the middle and back tee boxes, a 4-wood and a 5-wood will both clear the trees that overhang the right side. Here’s a nice 5-wood from the middle box.
From the front boxes, you’ll need to hit a B1 shot around the trees.
If you are close enough to hit an iron, in order to stop on the green, you will need a big headwind, or if that’s not the case, hit to where your first bounce is on the hill and then bounces up onto the downward sloping green (this takes a lot of practice and you need to be aware of how soon the 2- and 3-irons land to be able to perform this shot.
A 5-wood or 3-wood can usually land the green with backspin and stay on. Here’s a great 3-wood hole-out from the back box! If you do club up, remember not to hit it too hard – I’m almost always long on this hole. But, watch out for the flower bed short of the green — if your ball stops in there, it’s an unplayable lie. Most people have trouble with this hole, so if you go long and into the sand, you’re still looking at birdie. If you’re short and wet, par is your maiden.
Be extra careful with a low-lofted club — it will often come up short in the water if you don’t aim for the back of the green! That is, unless you can manage a SKIP, like this incredible shot!
Huge green, but there’s a big upward slope, so make sure to stick this one close to the hole! Ideally you want to leave a short, uphill putt, but if that happens, you weren’t aggressive enough! Downhill putts can lip out, and side-sloping putts are obviously much tougher here. With a front pin, hit long and use backspin, and consider using roll with a back pin to help get it close. Here’s a hole-out from the short middle box. Here’s another hole-out from the back box.
This is a long hole that’s always difficult to reach in 2. The key is keeping your drive in the fairway to give you a chance! Lots of tee shots end up in the right rough, so keep it left and on the fairway!
From the front left tee box, you can get to the second fairway if the wind is to the left with a big C3. If you don’t clear the brown road, you’re more than likely not making the green, so if you’re not 100% sure, just get to the end of the first fairway. From there, it’s a 5-wood to driver approach.
From the middle right box, hit an easy B3 around the tree and to the end of the first fairway.
From the back left box, a driver might not be the shot here because with a wind to the right, it won’t hook back enough. Hitting a 3-wood C3 will clear the tree that’s sticking out and you’ll be able to stay on the fairway. You can’t get your approach there from the bunker, but you can still sometimes get there from the rough. Check out this hole-out from just off the fairway.
This is a really tough par 4 with several options. Very rarely will this hole set up to drive the green with a huge C3 and a great wind. Maybe 5% set up that way, plus you’ll need an extremely lucky turbo bounce up and out of the sand guarding the green. You’re better off not even trying it because if you get in the sand directly right of the green, you need a lob wedge to get out of it.
One – Rotate left one and hit an A1 with roll. This will usually get you far enough out in the fairway so you don’t have to worry about the trees on the left for your second shot. But watch out, because sometimes you could be in the sand with a hill too big to clear. Hitting your tee shot to the rough or dirt road to the right of those traps will leave an iron or 5-wood from the dirt. Backspin doesn’t work as good from either, so watch out. Here’s a hole-out playing a bit of cut.
Two – You can lay up short and hit a 5-wood over the gap in the trees to the green.
Three — Sometimes there’s no way you can get past the trees for a clear second shot. And keeping your tee shot in the fairway isn’t easy. There is a shortcut through the trees on the left. You can rotate once left and hammer a 3-wood over the first line of trees (or play a C2 5-wood over them too). In the right conditions, you’ll land in a clearing with a clear straight shot to the green.
This one is always drivable. You will need an A1-C3 3-iron-Driver with backspin depending on the tee box and wind.
From the close middle set, a nice thumb driver backspin will do the trick.
From the back middle box, hit a hard driver — here’s a nice hole-out.
From the left boxes, depending on wind and trees in front of you, you should usually hit a B3 shot with backspin using a 5-wood to driver. Here’s a great ace from there!
From the right boxes, hit a B1 shot around the trees.
Occasionally from the front left/right boxes you will need to turn left or right and hit an A1 or C3 with a 3-iron or 2-iron. Watch out when hitting this type of shot, because it goes a lot farther than you’re expecting.
Thanks to Design Master Randy Christopher for supplying us with all the fun facts below!
Hole #1 There are 2 porta-potties to the left of the green in the woods.
Hit the out house and you’ll hear
1) “A fart, a burp and “Come Back Later””
2) “A fart, a burp and “Oh, bad tacos””
3) “A fart and “Hold On””
(All outhouses do this)
Hole #1 There is (1) 8 point buck to the far right of the green in the woods, if
hit, you’ll hear it stomp its hoofs, grunt and moan (or whatever a deer sound is)
Hole #2 The is a golf cart with 1 guy in it in the woods to the right of the
dogleg in the woods, if you hit it, the guy will say “Move On”. (man in golf carts
always say this)
Hole #2 Between the tree and the golf cart, the is a man in a gray shirt standing
facing the tree, if you hit the man, you’ll hear him pissing on the tree. (I’m not
joking it happens and there are two more time in Eagle Crest that I’ve found so
far, I obviously have too much time on my hands)
Hole #2 There is a green lawnmower/tractor in the woods to the right further down
the dogleg. When hit, it makes the sound of a ball hitting a metal cage followed
by an engine choking and sputtering out. (this happens to all lawnmowers that’ll
show up later)
Hole #3 There is (1) 8 point buck in the woods behind the Tee Box, it’s stomps
it’s hoofs, grunts and moans when hit.
Hole #3 There are (2) potta-potties to the right in the woods, same voices as
above when hit.
Hole #3 There is a 2 lane paved car bridge going nowhere and barricaded (no roads
attach to it) to the right rear of the green. Also has to hazard signs on the
barricade.
Hole #4 If you hit the alien space ship, it’s sound like an echoing high pitch
gong ( I can describe it better than that).
Hole #4 If you hit an alien, it’ll say “Take me to your leader”
Hole #4 If you hit the player in the purple shirt by the aliens, he’ll groan.
Hole #4 If you hit the statue of Thomas Jefferson inside the memorial it’ll sound
like hitting a hollow metal statue. (if you’re playing with the aliens, you won’t
have enough strokes to get to the statue)
Hole #4 There are two porta potties to the far right of the Jefferson Memorial,
making same sounds as above.
Hole #5 There is (1) 8 point buck in the woods to the right of the dogleg, snorts
and all
Hole #6 There is a man in a golf cart to the right rear of the green, says “Move
On”. I didn’t think to look for a man peeing cause I didn’t know about it at the
time I found this, but there isn’t a porta potty there, so maybe the guy is behind
the tree.
Hole #7 (Had to use google earth to figure this one out). There is a bridge to
the Left Rear of the Tee. It’s a three lane one way bridge. When you turn around
to look at the bridge, traffic would be coming toward you across the bridge.
Hole #7 There is a man in a golf cart
Hole #7 Two porta potties
Hole #8 Nothing
Hole #9 There is a 2 legged alien ship in the woods, 3 aliens, none with hats,
ship sounds like gong and aliens say take me to your leader.
Hole #9 Behind the green and to the right, there are two “Baggies” with a sign
that says “Today only meet Baggie” 3 balloons, red, green and yellow
Hole #9 There is an LED advertising billboard (I didn’t pay much attention to them
as everyone sees them)
Hole #10 Behind the tee box, the sign says “Today only meet Baggie”
Hole #10 The angled wall is the Veitnam Veterans Memorial. No sounds for hitting it.
Hole #10 Just past the end of the Veitnam Memorial wall and to the left in the
woods there is a man in a golf cart and a man behind the tree peeing. same
sounds as before.
Hole #11 To the left of the bunker there is a lawnmower/tractor with sounds
Hole #11 At the very end of the long fairway there is an 8 point buck
Hole #11 On the island to the right between the fairway and green you’ll find
Jimmy Hoffa’s Cript. Hit it and you’ll hear a stone slab sliding followed by
haunting music.
Hole #12 Shot for the hole in one, ain’t nothing to be found here.
Hole #13 There are (4) 8 point bucks in the woods to the right.
Hole #13 After crossing the road to the second fairway, there is an SUV off to the
right, hit it and it’ll sound the same as hitting the lawnmowers. Further to the
far right is another space ship with no aliens.
Hole #14 In the woods to the right, half way to the fountain, there is a “Bags”
game. Hit it and you’ll hear coins drop in the machine followed by the IT music.
Hole #15 nothing
Hole #16 In the woods to the inside of the left dogleg, there is a man with a
purple shirt laying on the ground, groans when hit.
Hole #16 There is a Brown Brick Castle looking building to the right of the green,
it’s the Smithsonian Institute.
Hole #16 The block building to the left of the green is the Museum of Natural
History.
Hole #17 About half way to the green in the woods deep to the left, there is a man
peeing behind a gray tree. (This was actually the first one I found).
Hole #18 There is a space ship in the woods to the right, no aliens.
