At the 10 th hole, for example, the player with enough length to attempt the green must hit a precise shot or pay the price by going OB or down into the most difficult greenside bunker on the course. Or, he can choose to forfeit his advantage and play wedges against his shorter opponent, who must take the safer route along the left off the tee. And as we all know, those short players tend to have strong wedge games when compared to the 'Big Putchagaloupies,' as Brian calls the long hitters. On many modern courses, everyone is required to play down the same hallway- at Black Creek, there are many different paths to the hole. Once you have started off on the wrong path, it is difficult to recover without an excellent shot.
Some courses are all about shots, and ignore the plan.
It s always frustrated me to see designs with the 250 slice bunker and the 270 hook bunker off the tee, and no other fairway bunkering to create fabric for the course. A serious mishit often winds up in better shape than a slight mistake bunkers in such predictable positions are almost too well thought out. And in a bunker would go. Another admirable feature of the well positioned bunkering is that, true to Raynor, the bunkers are flat bottomed. Gone are the wimpy, turned up sand faces that help golfers get out of even the shallowest bunkers on other modern courses.