(above) Cypress Point takes one on a journey through distinct ecologies— dunes land, maritime forest and ocean-front bluffs.
(right) Donald Ross built his masterpiece at Pinehurst’s #2 course.
tee and offers a complex array of options where, to invoke a phrase befi tting clas- sic design, if you miss it a little you’ve missed it a lot. The Redan falls away from front to
back, with a steep bunker left cast at a diagonal that seems to invite bold play. But hit the approach a bit strong and the ball will roll over; pull it a tad and you’ve short-sided yourself. As if that weren’t enough, the Redan also allows you the option of landing it short and running it in, but only if you judge the approach just right and hit well short of the green onto the down slope; if you are careless with your approach and land it just in front of the green, it could snag on the upslope and stop. And while you have a seemingly safe bail-out option to the right, this also holds trouble if you hit it just a tad too far right, because then it will catch the brow of the down slope and be propelled into bunkering on that side as well. The beauty of this design was that
you had options and golfers could choose to play a hole any one of several ways. Bunkers weren’t placed at some formulaic point, say 230 yards left and right of a central landing area, as in
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