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
PINE RIDGE GOLF CLUB — HOLE #2
471 / 428 / 331 yards
Designed by Ron Forse/Don Bachus
"All you need here is a 270-yard tee ball between towering pines. If you can't do that, you'll have lots of work left. This dogleg-right hole will have to be an up-and-down par attempt unless you can stripe a long approach across the marshland creeping in on the right, just short of the front bunker. Even with a lay-up, the green is protected against your wedge: there's water long and right, while bunkers sit short and left. The green is 50 paces deep, so three putts are definitely possible."
Golf On Long Island provided a flyover of the course in August 2009:
"Pine Ridge digs deep inside its bag of tricks early on with four par-4s
of varying styles. The opener is a relatively short 341-yarder with a
deep green offset from the fairway by a pork-chop bunker. A lengthy
428-yard second hole (471 from the black tees) fades toward a huge green
with water right and deep."
To read more about Pine Ridge, check out the course flyover.