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Here’s a 9-wood ace from the middle-left box followed by a shorter ace from the middle-right box.
You can reach the green either from the narrow strip to the left or by blasting a long drive down the fairway. If you can confidently hit towards the second half of the narrow strip given a good tee box, you’ll be rewarded with an easier approach shot — here’s a great 5-wood hole-out from there.
If you are unsure about the left strip, tee it high and hit it as far as you can straight ahead, keeping to the left. In most cases you’ll still have enough club to get there in two. This driver one-hopped into the hole, and here’s a 4-wood hole-out from the front-left of the sand traps.
Here’s an example hole-out after a long drive around the corner.
It works perfectly well to lay up straight ahead between the sand too — here’s a straight-in hole-out from there. At worst you may have a small cut into a left pin.
Here’s a nice 7-wood from the front-left box followed by a 5-wood ace from the back-right box.
Here’s a great hole-out playing a small curve around the trees.
If you lay back farther left, you’ll have a better angle to the green — here’s a 5-wood dunk.
Most of the time it’s just fine hitting straight out to the fairway — you may need just a small cut into the green. Here’s a great 3-wood curved around and in.
The only time it may be rough is if the wind is blowing away from the green towards the water. In this case, you may drive towards the far edge of the fairway and come in around the right side of the trees instead — check out this great shot!
Another option with a headwind is the layup island…it leaves a better approach shot, but of course it can be tough to stick. It’s not flat; it slopes all towards the water, so sticking the middle of it is important. Here’s a nice hole-out from there.
Some guys have gotten close to driving the green here, at least getting close enough for a short chip shot. Check out this insane long drive. Don’t expect these results, but check out how this high-teed driver skipped the water with a tailwind!
It’s never a bad option to lay up behind the sand straight ahead — here’s a nice 3-wood hole-out from there.
If you do play the fairway farther down, you may have to curve a shot around the trees into the green, which this shot did nicely. This one was far enough back, however, where a 9-wood went right over the top and found the hole. And this one came up short but the hill pushed it forward into the hole!
Here’s a nice 5-wood ace around the left side from the back-right box. Here’s another one over the top of the right side. And check out the unbelievable deflection this one gets off the rock face!
This 5-wood dunked in the hole from the next box to the left.
Here’s a tough par 5 that can be really difficult to reach in two. It often takes two great shots. Here are your options off the tee:
1) If you have the distance, blast it straight ahead through the fairway into the rough by any means possible. This gets you a pretty straight look into the green for your second shot. Here’s a 4-wood hole-out from there, and here’s another one with the 5-wood.
2) Look to the right and find the hollowed-out path through the trees back into the fairway. Line up your drive for a C2-3-type shot through here, picking the right distance to make and hold the fairway. It’s not easy, but it gives you anywhere from a straight look to another C3-type shot back into the green. A good shot ends up around here for a 3-wood into the green. This great drive found the fairway for a much closer approach shot, and this shot also got through far enough to have plenty of distance from the rough and still an open look at the green. Even if you get a bit too close to the tree on the other side of the fairway, you may be able to curve one around!
3) Lay up just behind and to the left of the sand. From here, you’ll have a big A1-type shot with a driver or 3-wood around the trees, over the water and into the green. Check out this amazing hole-out. If the wind is blowing towards the green, you can even come up a bit short and still get away with the wind pushing a shot deflected off the front wall up and onto the green.
4) Play a high-teed 5-wood A2-type shot around the corner of the trees off the tee. This can give you a shot at a C3 approach back into the green.
Lots of tee boxes here, from the side to the back, will give you many challenging looks. Here’s a 9-iron from the side that caught a nice bounce into the hole. This one was well-played to a left-center pin.
This one was well-played from behind the hole, and so was this one. And this shot found the cup from the back left box.
From the front-left box, a wood can easily clear the trees right at the green. This high-teed 4-wood found the cup. You don’t even need a tee if the distance works out for you and you need to retain backspin — this medium-teed driver went at it just fine. If you are so inclined, here’s a driver around the side with backspin that caught the cup.
From the back-right box, a high-teed 3-wood can curve right over the top to the green. A high-teed driver will find the leaves on the tallest parts of the trees, but this one curved left of them and found the hole! You can also rotate right another click and play a high-teed C2-ish driver towards the green, especially with a headwind — it can still get there since it carries a bit downhill, and it will clear the two right-most trees in its path. This medium-teed driver used backspin and some great bounces to find the hole for an amazing ace!
From the back-left box, this high-teed 3-wood was played beautifully and found the hole. This medium-teed driver with backspin was also a gorgeous shot. Sometimes from here with a bad wind, it could appear really difficult to drive, but it may still be the right move to try to drive it anyway — just miss short and right to give yourself a chip. Or if you are not comfortable, the fairway is still there — here’s a hole-out from there.
