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
HARBOR LINKS - CHAMPIONSHIP COURSE -- HOLE #6
515 / 493 / 448 yards
Designed by Michael Hurdzan
"A classic risk-reward hole with great views of the rest of the course, this one offers a split fairway. The right fork is narrower and slopes toward hilly rough separating the fairways, but hitting this top tier gives you a chance to get home in two. The lower tier is easier to hit, but the hole runs uphill from there and requires three shots. Any short approach shot is trouble; the hill fronting the green is deep rough, with a bunker left. The green slopes hard from back to front."
Golf On Long Island provided a flyover of the course in July 2009:
"Tee shots on the 493-yard sixth must carry, depending on the tees, close to 200 yards to reach either of the two fairways on this par-5. Attack the hole by bombing a drive to the high fairway on the right, but know that shots lost to the right are in danger of flying out of bounds. ... On the low side, hitting the green in two won't often be a consideration, so the focus is on laying up effectively. Heavy rough separates the fairways from the layup area and covers an uphill slope in front of the green. Ideally, this rough will be avoided, because once you're in it, it takes a supreme effort to get back out and score as intended."
To read more about Harbor Links, check out the course flyover.
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