PRESIDENTS CUP
HOLE 14 400 YARDS, PAR 4 Four blowout matches ended on the 14th hole in 2007, including an impressive 5-and-4 win by Vijay Singh and Stu- art Appleby over Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk in Friday’s fourballs. Studious viewers might recognise the Blue’s 14th as a mirror image of another popular Dick Wilson hole, the 18th at Bay Hill. A lake extends the length of the fairway on the left beginning at 250 yards and continues up to the front of a shallow green that hooks left around the water. The landing area is just 25 yards across, so most players will hit less than driver for safety and approach the green with 9-irons or wedges. New front tees were created during the remodel and could be used to make a 310-yard hole that coaxes desperate teams into attempts to drive the green.
HOLE 15 448 YARDS, PAR 4
If the 14th is reminiscent of the closing hole at Bay Hill, the 15th fol- lows a similar strategic construct
of another classic Wilson finisher, the 18th at Doral’s Blue Monster. A decision must be made on the tee: Lay up to the wide section of the fairway at the 250-yard mark leaving a long approach into a deep, skinny green bracketed by bunkers or push further down the hole by carving a drive around trees to an ever-narrowing landing zone with a lake cutting in from the left. Any drive hit too straight or too far left will be in the water. The green used to be set just beyond the water but was pushed back 40 yards to give members safe harbour short, and the putting surface is cut into distinct pinning sections by prominent steps and swales.
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