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
EISENHOWER PARK, RED COURSE — HOLE #15
454 / 402 / 307 yards
Designed by Devereux Emmet / Robert Trent Jones
"The [former] host of a Champions Tour event, the course's 15th hole always makes the home stretch interesting. There's nothing daunting off the tee, but stress builds with the approach shot. Short hitters must contend with water that crosses the fairway 20 yards before the green. For bombers, the water's not a factor, but they face a downhill lie to an elevated green. Bunkers wrap the whole right side of the green, plus part of the left side too. A ridge running diagonally through this big green makes three putts possible."
Golf On Long Island provided a flyover of the course in July 2009:
"Its serenity is matched by its history. Eisenhower Red
was originally the #4 course at the Salisbury Golf Club, a five-course
complex that was once dubbed the "Sports Center of America." Famed
architect Devereux Emmet designed the course in 1914, and 12 years
later, it hosted a PGA Championship won by the legendary Walter Hagen.
It was the only original Salisbury course to survive the club's
downturn after the Depression and World War II, and was later joined by
the new White and Blue Courses in the 1950s."
To read more about Eisenhower Red, check out the course flyover.