Lakes Course

# 1 / Hole #1

Par: 4

Yardage by Tee:

GOLD 378

BLUE 359

WHITE 336

SILVER 279

BRONZE 279

Pro Tips

A big hitter can reach this short, downhill hole, but this hole isn’t as easy as it looks. There is out of bounds on the left, a penalty area on the right, fairway bunkers guarding the right rough and a steep slope dividing a shallow but elongated green.

# 2 / Hole #2

Par: 3

Yardage by Tee:

GOLD 205

BLUE 185

WHITE 153

SILVER 100

BRONZE 100

Pro Tips

The green is big, which is good because there’s no place good to miss it. A stream and a marshy area guards the front, so it’s all carry. Right and short of the green is a penalty area. Left is a hillside that allows for bank shots but makes for difficult chipping. There is little room behind the green as well. The putting surface slopes dramatically from left to right, making it the toughest two-putt on this nine.

# 3 / Hole #3

Par: 4

Yardage by Tee:

GOLD 374

BLUE 347

WHITE 319

SILVER 272

BRONZE 272

Pro Tips

This is a short but narrow uphill hole through a valley flanked by trouble and out of bounds on both sides. A deep bunker fronts the middle of the green, requiring a precise second shot to the elevated green.

# 4 / Hole #4

Par: 4

Yardage by Tee:

GOLD 356

BLUE 319

WHITE 309

SILVER 232

BRONZE 232

Pro Tips

You’ve got options on how to play this short hole. A stream guards the left side, cutting in front of the green, and two fairway bunkers guard the right. Lay up short of the bunkers for a short-iron in or hit a wood past them for a pitch shot in over the greenside bunkers. The hole location on the green, which is angled from back left to front right, may decide your strategy from the tee.

# 5 / Hole #5

Par: 5

Yardage by Tee:

GOLD 545

BLUE 516

WHITE 487

SILVER 422

BRONZE 422

Pro Tips

Finally, a roomy fairway to drive to on a true-risk reward hole, but with a penalty area left and out of bounds right, a well-placed tee shot determines your approach. A stream and a small ravine lie in wait short of the green’s left side, a bunker guards the middle, demanding a precise shot for those who dare to go for it in two. Those who lay up must first navigate the left fairway bunker then hit into a shallow but long (and sloped) green, not an easy shot.

# 6 / Hole #6

Par: 3

Yardage by Tee:

GOLD 210

BLUE 180

WHITE 130

SILVER 115

BRONZE 90

Pro Tips

The danger on this pretty hole is obvious. The tee shot must carry a reservoir and a deep bunker guards the right front portion of a sloping green. For those who find the water, the pitch from the drop zone, 40 yards right of the green, is no bargain either.

# 7 / Hole #7

Par: 4

Yardage by Tee:

GOLD 398

BLUE 385

WHITE 327

SILVER 257

BRONZE 207

Pro Tips

Two good shots are needed on this risk-reward dogleg left. The drive must carry a lake and two fairway bunkers on the other side to reach the fairway. Shorter hitters will play right of the bunkers and have a mid-iron to the green but a longer carry is left of the bunkers and leaves a short-iron approach. The lake is still in play left of the green on the second shot, as is a bunker, and the steep slope on this green (tilted toward the front left) means you don’t want to putt from above the hole.

# 8 / Hole #8

Par: 4

Yardage by Tee:

GOLD 442

BLUE 419

WHITE 357

SILVER 312

BRONZE 312

Pro Tips

This long and demanding dogleg right requires a long, straight tee shot to get past the trees along the right side to the corner but avoid the two bunkers on the left. From there, it’s a mid or long-iron into a green over a ravine short and left of the green, two greenside bunkers in front, and a third on the left.

# 9 / Hole #9

Par: 5

Yardage by Tee:

GOLD 575

BLUE 558

WHITE 505

SILVER 415

BRONZE 415

Pro Tips

While the entire right side here is mostly unplayable penalty area, well-placed bunkers are the real issue. They frame the fairway right and left on the tee shot and the left side of the landing area for the second shot. Two more are left of and behind the green, and a big one lies in wait in a hollow 20 yards short of the green. Three good shots are called for on this hole and beware the false front on the green.