Finley Hole 2
July 9, 2012 | Finley Golf Club
UNC Finley Tour
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Hole #2 Par 4
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In honor of: Darryl E. Unruh |
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This is a short one. When I first played it I said this is going to be an easy hole, but actually, it's so easy, it's hard. This is an unbelievable golf hole. The more I play it, the more I like it.
The long hitters can pull out a driver and just nail it and take it down over that little swale on the right, but the safe way to play the shot is to hit either a long iron or a fairway wood. The fairway's only about thirty yards wide.
You've got to be careful off the tee. I've seen tee shots with just a little left to right ball flight kick down into the sand bunkers on the right-hand side of the fairway. There's a subtle little left-to-right slope that's hard to see.
Most of the time you'll be going into the green with a short iron. You can bump it into the green on the left, but not on the right side.
This is not a very deep green from front to back, but it's very wide from left to right. Tom Fazio did that because the green is accepting a shot from a short iron.
The green has a wide variety of pin placements. There's also some subtle undulations on the green that are hard to see. There's severe undulation around this green, just as with number one.
The shorter holes at Finley consistently have more undulation around the greens than do the longer holes. You pay a price for the shorter yardage.
The sand bunker in the right front of the green really comes into play. It's a tough bunker shot if you get in there.
This is a really fun hole. Fazio did a good job here of setting the flow for the day.
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