A helping breeze

A helping breeze
A helping breeze will often "shorten" the smallest par 5 hole on the course, but it is still a good distance from tee to green, and the tee shot can be intimidating with only a thin strip of fairway showing at the landing area. Drives straying right will finish among the desert shrubbery and trees hugging the so tee shots must be placed with care. The green presents a good target, but is almost entirely ringed by sand and all approach shots need height. There are enough problems on this hole to ruin a good card(ishiner).

Getting the perfect drive away will still leave a long and challenging approach shot to the elevated green, with the fairway falling away on both sides. A par here may well seem like a birdie.

This is a challenging par five, requiring a long and accurate drive to create an opportunity to go for the low-lying green in two , at the risk of finding water on the right of the green. With the fairway turning into a left-hand dog-leg, tee shots can easily drift out to the right, or fall into the stretch of desert to the left. A protective bunker virtually dismisses the possibility of chasing a shot onto the green from a fairway that dips sharply towards the target area.