"WINNING COLOURS" HOLE 2 / 500 YARDS / PAR 4 Much of the first nine is constructed to look like rambling Midwestern prairie with the holes switching over former agricultural fields. The second hole occupies a separate environment, levelled into the wooded hillside on the far side of Floyd’s Fork and bending left around a sunken wetland. Members play the double dogleg as a par 5, but it’s a monstrous par 4 for the PGA Championship, one that registered as the most difficult hole in 2014 with a stroke average of 4.36. Drives must try to push as far into a narrow neck of fairway as they dare while hewing towards the hazard to shorten the approach into a green set over an embankment that falls steeply into a stream.
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MAY 2024
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