Golfing Magazine put together its 2009 Long Island Dream Golf Club in its recent Fall issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes, the Dream Golf Club is a 7,219-yard par-73. With holes like the blind-carry 16th at Lido and the split-fairway sixth at Harbor Links, the 2009 Dream Club demands smart strategy and precise execution from the public golfer.
Every Monday through the winter, Golf On Long Island will feature one public hole from the Dream Golf Club along with commentary from Golfing Magazine editors. Photographs are provided by Golf On Long Island where available. To view the Dream Club's 18-hole lineup, re-visit the original post here.
And to review Golfing Magazine's 2008 edition of the Dream Club, click here.
GOLFING MAGAZINE'S 2009 DREAM GOLF CLUB
GREAT ROCK GOLF CLUB -- HOLE #1
489 / 460 / 416 yards
Designed by William (Buddy) Johnson
"The length of this starting hole isn't scary, but the hazards are: a lake in front of the tee box plus bunkers at the corner of this dogleg-right fairway. If you can't fly it 240, then play left to set up a second shot toward bunkers set at the 100-yard marker. Fly those bunkers for a short pitch into the green, or lay up to a full wedge. The left side of the fairway leaves a tough approach -- the green is narrow from that angle, and well bunkered. Play it deep into the green and you'll face a hard slope back to front."
Golf On Long Island provided a flyover of the course in July 2009:
"Great Rock rises and falls like a roller coaster, slowly ascending through the woods toward an elevated first green, not to return again until the final descent of the 18th. ... The opening par-5 can be reached in two, but its green, sloping down from the center, can easily steal a stroke."
To read more about Great Rock, check out the course flyover.
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