| Baxter Spann, Golf Course Architect: The first of the course’s dramatic par 3’s is set in a “badlands” area at the far southeast corner of the layout. Teeing areas here provide a tremendous variety of play, with the green tucked behind a native peak laced with pot bunkers. To be right is wrong here! Short and right of the green is a fourteen-foot deep arroyo bottom, and over the ridge well right of the green is total oblivion in an even deeper ravine. There is more room to left than is apparent, with a mowed chipping area hidden behind the forward peak. The putting surface is well contoured with several subtle swales and ridges for the golfer to negotiate. |
