Black Mesa Golf Club

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11th Hole

Par 3 172 155 136 97 97 yards
Baxter Spann, Golf Course Architect: "A unique green site is the main feature of this slightly uphill par three. The setting is a deep draw between high ridges, with the putting surface hard against a vertical sandstone rise to the left. The approach is relatively open beyond a cross bunker short right, with a deep swale between it and the green. A saving bunker behind the green is intended to keep overshots from continuing on to a harsher penalty in the rocky valley beyond."

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Tom’s Tips

The 11th hole is one of my favorite holes on the course because it presents so many challenges from the tee shot to recovery shots to putting on the green.

The hole is a par 3 that stretches from 102 yards off the front tees to 172 yards from the back and it could be one of the most memorable par 3’s in the Southwest.

I enjoy the routing because the hole seems to unfold as you drive up to the green. The green is higher than the tee and your eyes are drawn into the box canyon where the green sits like a saddle between two hills. The tees sit at an almost right angle to the green so you can see all the trouble immediately.

With a bunker guarding the front left and a sheer bluff rising about 30 feet above the left side of the green will subconsciously force you to try and play it safe to the right.

But what a mistake this can be! A bunker positioned very short of the green and a hollow that from the tee seems very benign actually presents a difficult recovery.

The green slopes from back to front with a shelf on the top right that is protected by the hollow and a steep hill. The target for pins cut top right is very small and requires a very high shot.

Beware of hitting over the green where your ball will find a water collection area that will force you to hit to a green that is above you and sloping away.

If the pin is cut in the lower front of the green a well placed shot to the middle of the green will result in the ball collecting towards the lower front. Pins cut short left also present a small target, but chips from short of the green are very straight forward.

Putting on the green from back to front is fast with a capital FAST. The top right shelf has a slight right to left slope, but is relatively level. But the shelf's edge runs at an angle and drops some eight feet to the middle of the green creating large breaking putts. Before making a lag putt, be sure to look at the green from a few angles and take the slope into account so that your putt will not only end up in the direction you want, but relatively close to the hole as well.