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2012 OPEN FIELD

*Names of participants indicated in bold are residents or former residents of Farragut. Bullet points Indicate PGA Tour players. Parenthesis indicate number of PGA Tour wins: (Majors/Non-Majors)*This list is for informational purposes only. Field is subject to change. Player can contact PGA Tour Headquarters for their alternate status.

FD FD Rd. 1 Rd. 2 TEE 1 10TEE 7:30 12:30 Paul Claxton Michael Connell Brian Stuard

Sea Island, GA Austin, TX Jackson, MI 7:40 12:40 Derek Fathauer Jeff Gove • Neal Lancaster (0/1)

Jupiter, FL San Diego, CA Smithfield, NC7:50 12:50 Nick Flanagan Doug Barron • Guy Boros

New Castle, Australia Memphis, TN Pompano Beach, FL 8:00 1:00 Erik Flores • Robert Damron (0/1) • Len Mattiace (0/2)

Grass Valley, CA Orlando, FL Jacksonville, FL 8:10 1:10 • Danny Lee • Patrick Sheehan • Steven Bowditch

Rotorua, New Zealand Warwick, RI Australia 8:20 1:20 • Garrett Willis (0/1) Aaron Goldberg Tim Wilkinson

Knoxville, TN Encinitas, CA Palmerston North, New Zealand 8:30 1:30 Kevin Johnson Matt Davidson • Alexandre Rocha

Palm Bch Gardens, FL Greenville, SC Sao Paulo, Brazil 8:40 1:40 Doug LaBelle II • Joey Snyder III Brad Elder

Mt. Pleasant, MI Scottsdale, AZ Dallas, TX 8:50 1:50 • Marco Dawson • Kyle Thompson Scott Sterling

Lakeland, FL Greenville, SC Baton Rouge, LA 9:00 2:00 • Sung Kang Justin Bolli • Matt Jones

Jeju Island, South Korea Greenville, SC Sydney, Australia9:10 2:10 Diego Velasquez James Love Brent Delahoussaye

Bogota, Colombia Calgary, AB, Canada Greenville, SC 9:20 2:20 Jeff Corr Tom Hoge Fernando Mechereffe

Longwood, FL Fargo, ND Pelotas, Brazil 9:30 2:30 Brice Garnett Adam Long David Skinns

Gallatin, MO Lake St. Louis, MO Lincoln, England FD FD Rd. 1 Rd. 2 TEE 10 1TEE 7:30 12:30 James Hahn Andrew Buckle Robert Streb

Alameda, CA Australia Edmond, OK 7:40 12:40 Matt Hendrix Travis Hampshire • Omar Uresti

Greenville, SC Tampa, FL Austin, TX 7:50 12:50 D.J. Brigman Brad Fritsch Reid Edstrom

Albuquerque, NM Ottawa, Ont., Canada Auburn, AL 8:00 1:00 Mathew Goggin Brad Adamonis Bubba Dickerson

Hobart, Australia Cumberland, RI Hilliard, FL8:10 1:10 • Scott Brown • Glen Day (0/1) Steve Allan

North Augusta, SC Alotian, AR Melbourne, Australia 8:20 1:20 • John Daly (2/5) • Lee Janzen (2/8) Casey Wittenberg

Dardanelle, AR Orlando, FL Memphis, TN 8:30 1:30 • Gavin Coles Will Wilcox Darron Stiles

Bathurst, Australia Ashville, AL Pinehurst, NC 8:40 1:40 Philip Pettitt, Jr. Josh Broadaway • Joe Durant (0/4)

Murfreesboro, TN Dothan, AL Gulf Breeze, FL 8:50 1:50 • Tommy Biershenk • Will MacKenzie (0/1) • Daniel Chopra

Boiling Springs, SC Greenville, NC Falun, Sweden 9:00 2:00 Luke List • Brett Wetterich (0/1) Andres Gonzales

Jupiter, FL Jupiter, FL Olympia, WA9:10 2:10 Andy Bare Rahil Gangjee Alex Coe

West End, NC Calcutta, India La Quinta, CA 9:20 2:20 Bryan DeCorso Richard Scott Jin Park

Windermere, FL St. Simons Island, GA Phoenix, AZ 9:30 2:30 Jonathan Randolph Chase Carroll Scott Moran

Brandon, MS Knoxville, TN Knoxville, TN

FD FD Rd. 1 Rd. 2 TEE 1 10TEE 12:30 7:30 • Peter Tomasulo Charles Warren Shawn Stefani

Long Beach, CA Greenville, SC Houston, TX 12:40 7:40 Steve Friesen Jason Schultz Brenden Pappas

Scottsdale, AZ Dallas, TX McKinney, TX 12:50 7:50 James Nitties • Scott Dunlap • Kent Jones

Sydney, Australia Duluth, GA Albuquerque, NM 1:00 8:00 Chris Wilson Scott Parel Brian Anderson

Dublin, OH Augusta, GA Jupiter, FL1:10 8:10 Aaron Watkins Craig Bowden Fabian Gomez

Mesa, AZ Bloomington, IN Chaco, Argentina 1:20 8:20 Ryan Armour Nicholas Thompson Steven Alker

Silver Lake, OH Coral Springs, FL Hamilton, New Zealand 1:30 8:30 Tag Ridings Ron Whittaker Joseph Bramlett

Keller, TX Little Rock, AR Saratoga, CA1:40 8:40 Alex Aragon • Chris Riley (0/1) Ben Briscoe

Cardiff, CA San Diego, CA Old Colwyn, Wales 1:50 8:50 • Skip Kendall Jim Renner Chad Collins

Windermere, FL Orlando, FL Cloverdale, IN 2:00 9:00 • Edward Loar Cliff Kresge • Michael Putnam

Dallas, TX Heathrow, FL Tacoma, WA 2:10 9:10 Bio Kim Christopher DeForest Nate Smith

South Korea Cottekill, NY Santa Cruz, CA 2:20 9:20 Adam Hadwin Sam Saunders Kevin Foley

Abbotsford, BC, Canada Orlando, FL Stuart, FL 2:30 9:30 Hunter Hamrick Audie Johnson Mark Silvers

Troy, AL Lebanon, TN Savannah, GA FD FD Rd. 1 Rd. 2 TEE 10 1TEE 12:30 7:30 Russell Henley • Tim Petrovic (0/1) James Sacheck

Macon, GA Austin, TX Fort Worth, TX12:40 7:40 David Lingmerth Camilo Benedetti Jim Herman

Tranas, Sweden Medellin, Colombia Palm City, FL 12:50 7:50 • Nathan Green (0/1) Cameron Percy Mathias Gronberg

Newcastle, NSW, Australia Melbourne, Australia Sweden 1:00 8:00 John Kimbell B.J. Staten Jamie Lovemark

San Antonio, TX Cottonwood Hts., UT Jupiter, FL1:10 8:10 • Shane Bertsch Hudson Swafford • Chris Smith (0/1)

Denver, CO Tallahassee, FL Peru, IN1:20 8:20 • Kevin Kisner Alistair Presnell Aron Price

Aiken, SC Melbourne, Australia Sydney, Australia1:30 8:30 • Russell Knox Rob Oppenheim Alex Prugh

Inverness, Scotland Andover, MA Spokane, WA 1:40 8:40 • Peter Lonard Michael Letzig Steve LeBrun

Sydney, Australia Kansas City, MO West Palm Beach, FL 1:50 8:50 Lee Williams Matt Weibring Oscar Serna

Alexander City, AL Dallas, TX Leon, Mexico2:00 9:00 Bronson La'Cassie Andy Pope Andy Winings

Brisbane, Australia Glen Ellyn, IL Brownsburg, IN 2:10 9:10 Ben Martin Tyrone Van Aswegen • Jerod Turner

Greenwood, SC Johannesburg, South Africa Colleyville, TX2:20 9:20 Martin Piller Jeff Curl Wes Roach

Dallas, TX Birmingham, AL Knoxville, TN 2:30 9:30 Scott Gardiner Dawie van der Walt Louis de Jager

Coolangatta, Qld, Australia Kingwood, TX Pretoria, South Africa

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Heavy summer precipitation, which hasgrown the rough on Fox Den County Club’scourse to thickness and levels not experi-enced by Knoxville Open pros in recentyears, plus a new look at hole No. 1 await23rd annual News Sentinel Open present-ed by Pilot.

Lee Janzen, two-time U.S. Open champ(1993, 1998) joins John Daly, 1991 PGAand 1995 British Open winner, as two of45 PGA Tour players — 17 of whom havewon at least on ePGA Tour event — amonga web.com Tour field of 156, in addition to10 alternates, for this four-day annual pil-grimage to Farragut, Thursday, Aug. 23-Sunday, Aug. 26.

Former Knoxville Open champs JeffGove (1999), Darron Stiles (2002) andKevin Johnson (2009) are among the field.

In addition to most of web.com Tour’stop 25 money list, the field includes localparticipants Garrett Willis, 2001 PGA TourTuscon Open champ and Farragut High

state champ from the early 1990s; WesRoach, former Webb School of Knoxvillestar and web.com Tour player, and ex-Bearden High School star Chase Carroll.

With theKnoxville Openat FDCC for a14th consecutiveyear, “For thetournament thisyear is the bestcondition I’veseen this golfcourse,” saidScott Moran,FDCC head pro-fessional whoearned hisway into the Knoxville Open field for afourth year by winning TennesseePGA Sectional Championship, a 54-holequalifying tournament at Fox Den in July.

“The golf course is as green as it’s everbeen this time of year,” he added.

Coming off of several renovations goinginto last year’s Knoxville Open, such as

new “Augusta” sand for bunkers, grass-faced bunkers and improved Bermuda fair-way grass, “The pros raved about thechanges,” Moran said.

Meanwhile, playersteeing off at No. 1Thursday will find apar 4,482-yard hole.

Until this year, No.1 played as a par 5,521 yard hole, which“I believe, played asthe easiest hole onthe golf course,”Moran said. “Therewas a lot of waiting.Everyone could get to

the green in two[shots], pretty much.

“It was a situation of making itmore difficult to make birdie,” Moranadded.

Also, “Moving that tee forward” hasallowed club and Tour officials to “put anew grandstand on the tee-box where theyused to play from,” Moran said.

“Spectators can get behind the players onthe tee. … They’re going to introduce theelement of having people there now, beingable to cheer the players on as they teeoff,” he added.

One of the past dilemmas encounteredby club and Tour officials, Moran said, wasmaking No. 1 more spectator friendly.

“There’s not very many courses wherethe first tee you can’t get people around it.And our first tee, you can’t,” he added.

As for new obstacles, “For the first timein a while, the pros are going to have todeal with the rough,” Moran said abouteffects from above average rain. “The mois-ture has been getting to those areas wherewe aren’t able to irrigate all the time.”

With Moran FDCC’s head pro since 2006,“This is as wet as I’ve ever seen it … we’regoing on almost a month where we’ve hadan abnormally large amount of rain,” hesaid. “And that’s fueled the rough … therough is thicker and taller.”

Purse is $500,000, with $90,000 going to

Course ‘best condition,’ Moran toutsFrom thick rough to changes at No. 1, 23rd Knoxville Open offers unique challenges

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the winner. Tournament director leading more than

300 volunteers is Patrick Nichol. Head ofsecurity is Ben Harkins, retired KnoxCounty Sheriff’s Office captain working inconcert with KCSO.

Basic spectatorinformation includes:general admission is$10 per day or $25 forthe entire tourna-ment. Tickets can bepurchased at the gate,by calling 865-966-7693 or [email protected]

Parking is $5 in thefield along SmithRoad about one-fourthmile north of intersection with KingstonPike. Shuttle buses continuously run toand from FDCC starting one hour beforefirst tee times until one hour after roundsare completed.

Copper Cellar 19th Hole Pass is $125 perday, includes admission, a prime view ofNo. 18 hole from the grandstand andunlimited food and beverages.

Heineken House on 16 Pass is $50 perday, includes admission and provides aprime view at No. 16 with full hospitalityprivileges.

Birdie for 30 allowsall spectators to buy$1 cups of beer for 30minutes followingeach birdie at the par3 No. 16.

Moran evaluatesthe remaining 17FDCC holes challeng-ing Tour players:

No. 2 (Par 3,193): MORAN SAYS:“It’s kind of a peanut-shaped green, angles from front-right toback-left, guarded by the bunker, front-left. When the hole is right or middle, it’saccessible.

“When the hole position is left, over thebunker — and the greens firm up at all it’svirtually an impossible hole location to getto, so everything’s always played to theright. If you hit it left side and it’s firm or

it’s downwind, it’s very difficult to hold thegreen. Water will come into play along theleft.”

(Moran’s best estimate on No. 2 holeplacement) “I’d say the first two daysthey’ll keep it middle to the right of thegreen. … Probably front-right, which iswide open.

“And on the weekend they’ll probablystart edging itover towardsthe left side ofthe green a lit-tle bit.

“That’s whyyou generallysee a lot of good,low scores thefirst two days.And then on theweekend you’llsee some low

scores. “There’s a ridge that runs from the mid-

dle of the back bunker to the middle of thefront bunker at a diagonal, and then itslopes to the left of the green off of that.”

No. 3 (PAR 4, 409): MORAN SAYS:“No. 3 is a hole that in the memberships’eyes plays much more difficult than it hadbefore the reconstruction (mid-2000s).

“It used to play about 390, now it’s 409.… The green used to be a vast sea of a put-ting surface. Now it’s guarded by a very

large bunker. “ P r o b a b l y

only a third to ahalf of the greenis accessible bya ball that rollsup into the put-ting surface. …The green isnarrower fromfront to back,and it’s wide leftto right. … It’s

uphill, so whenthe ball hits the green it doesn’t stop asquickly.

“The pros, as long as they drive the ballwell of this hole, won’t have much of anissue with it. They’re all long enough offthe tee that they’ll get it up there … andthey’ll have anywhere from an eight-iron toa pitching wedge in their hand.

“If you hit it too far to the right you’ve

got trees in your way. The error side is left,but you don’t want to go too left because ifit hits the cart path left of the rough thenit can bounce up into the trees.”

No.4 (PAR 4, 436): MORAN SAYS:“This hole has been increased in difficultyby the addition of another pond that is bythe green.

“The tee ball is pretty important. If itplays into thewind, some play-ers may have tohit driver for themost part. I’ve hitthree wood off ofthis tee to get itdown to basically160 yards fromthe green. This isone of the holesyou try and put agood swing on it.

“Get through thishole, because par on this hole is not a badscore. The green on this hole is a littlesneaky, ’cause it actually does slope awayand to the left once you get to the middleof the green.

“A lot of players mis-read that. This isone of the holes out here where you’ve gotto hit a good tee ball to get it down past thecorner ’cause it’s a dogleg right. And thenyou have to hit a good, solid shot onto thegreen and just try and get away with yourpar.

“Very fewbirdies are madeon this hole,probably lessthan any otherpar 4 except formaybe No. 17,which is thelongest par 4 onthe golf course.Two good shotscan reward youwith a birdie ifhole location is very accessible. Just likejust about every other hole on this golfcourse, you’ve got out of bounds right andleft off the tee.

“From the center of the fairway thegreen comes out quite a bit to the right,probably almost to the edge of where theright side of the fairway runs up to thegreen. There’s still a lot of putting surface

straight up through the fairway and avoid-ing the water.”

No. 5 (PAR 5, 533): MORAN SAYS:“This is, in my opinion, for all but thelongest players on tour, a three-shot hole.Bunker is straight away, it’s a dogleg rightoff the tee.

“Driver can put you into the bunkerstraight away through the fairway, so a lot

of players will hit aNo. 1 or No. 2 hybrid,which would be likea 2-iron. Or hit a 3-wood off of the tee. Iusually hit 3-wood offthe tee to keep itfrom going into thebunkers off the teestraight.

“From there youhave an option to hitabout a 170-yard lay-

up short of approachbunkers and hit your third shot from about130 or 140 up to the green — it’s an elevat-ed green.

“When you get into the second and thirdshot, the hole actually doglegs back to theleft.

“For those who might be a little bit moreaggressive on their second shot, they canchoose to hit a little longer club and getover the fairway bunker, the approachbunker.

“The only problemwith that, the closeryou get to the green,hitting to an elevat-

ed green, the moredifficulty someonemay have in gettingthe ball to stop wherethey want it to, espe-cially if the hole loca-tion is in the front.The closer you are tothe green, the more

difficult it is to get theball right there in the front of the green.

“If the pin’s back, someone may try toget closer to the green with a shorter sec-ond shot where they can hit something tothe middle and let it release.

“But if the pin is short, everyone’s bestbet is to lay up short of the approach

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bunker and have that 130-yard shot, whichis a little bit more full shot, easier to stopor spin back on this green. … Pretty mucha slope from the back of the green to thefront of the green. It’s much smaller thanit used to play.

“Has bunkers to the right of the green. Ifyou hit it through the green there’s a largecollection area back there that someonewill either have to chip or putt backthrough onto the green. If you’re trying tohit the hole in two, that might be the areathey look for.

“Probably one of the two true three-shotpar 5s here on the golf course.”

No. 6 (PAR 3, 198): MORAN SAYS:“Downhill par 3.Usually playsabout 15 yardsshorter of whatthe scorecardsays because ofthe severitydownhill.

“The slope isvery flat fromthe middle ofthe green tothe right of thegreen. To theleft of the center of the green it will startto work downhill into a bowl.

“The one thing that makes this hole dif-

ficult is elevation change — it’s downhill,so any missed shot can be accentuated bythe time it gets down to the surface of thegreen.

“And the otherthing is the wind,more-so than anyother hole on thisgolf course. Youmay feel the windin one direction,but it may bedoing somethingelse up above thetrees. Wind willcome into big-time effect on theflight of the golf ball.

(Moran said that although laser-measur-ing devices are illegal to use during any

PGA-related event,including web.comTour, pros will use themduring practice roundsat FDCC leading up toKnoxville Open andrecord the informa-tion). “They now have’em with a slope meteron ’em,” Moran said ofthe device that will fig-ure slope angle andhow far the hole actual-

ly plays as a result.No. 7 (PAR 4, 422): MORAN SAYS:

“Dogleg left par 4 that most players will hit

a hybrid or 3-wood off of to put ’em in a150[-yard] range up to the flag. Tee ball isdownhill, second shot is uphill.

“Hole has beenmade a little moredifficult sincereconstruction by

putting fairwaybunkers to the rightof the fairway, whichin line-sight straightoff the tee are inplay. You’ve got toreally try to work theball from right toleft off the tee to

keep the ball in thefairway.

“But if you overdo it, you’ve got a cartpath left in the rough and there’s out-of-bounds quick left tothe left of the cartpaths. The holesets up for a draw,a ball that goesright to left.

“Some of theshorter hitters, orsome of the oneswho have a lot ofconfidence in theirdrivers, maychoose to hit driverjust so they can get ashorter club in their hands. Some of thelonger hitters who may hit driver will defi-

nitely have 100 yards or less into thisgreen. But most players playing back offthe tee hitting a 3-wood or hybrid will have150 to 160 to the green.

“Pretty big green, it’s guarded by abunker short-left. The right side of thegreen pinches in a little bit. It’s narroweron the right side of the green. It’s deeperon the left side of the green.

“If your ball releases through the greenon the right side there’s a collection areathat’s shaven down and the ball just gath-ers behind the green, and you’ve got topitch back onto the green. The green isfairly flat.

“The right side of the green, where itpinches down and gets real shallow fromfront-to-back, works off of a slope thatcomes back into the center of the green.There’s not a whole lot of slope on this

green.”No. 8 (PAR 4,

400): MORANSAYS: “Hole 8 canbe played a coupledifferent ways.Some of the longhitters, [and oth-ers] if it’s down-wind, can carry thefairway bunkerthat’s on the rightside. “Most players will

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hit a 3-wood off the tee to play short of thefairway bunker. From there you don’t haveanything more than a 9-iron or 8-iron intothis green.

“This green isdifferent than allthe other ones inthe sense that it islong and narrow,where a lot of thegreens up to nowhave been verywide and shallowor round. This oneactually is narrowfrom right-to-leftbut fairly long fromfront to back.

“Depending on hole location, therecould be a three-club difference betweenthe front of the green to the back of thegreen. Tee ball’s a critical part. If youchoose to be aggressive and hit it longyou’ve got to hit it straight. That’s why a lotof players hit hybrids and 3-woods off thetee.

“This green’s kinda got a ridge that runsfrom the back-left to the front-right. Butonce you’re away from those ridges thegreen’s fairly flat.”

No. 9 (PAR 4, 421): MORAN SAYS:“Most players will hit driver off this hole.The bunker is reachable with a driver. A 3-wood short is the favorable play.

“This second shot is steeply uphill, andthe further you get down into the fairwaytoward the beginning of the upslope theshorter shotyou’ll have andthe easier you’llbe able to holdthe green. Justa dogleg left,uphill secondshot.

“The severitywith this hole isactually theg r e e n - s i d eb u n k e r s .There’s two verylarge bunkers to the right of the green.And this is one of the greens from thechanges and the reconstruction that we’veadded hole locations where it’s actually

tucked behind the bunker. “Whereas before this green was just a

big, round oval with a couple of bunkersaround it. Now you’ve actually got a little

nook-and-cranny to the back-right of thegreen that is protected by

all those bunkers. “It’s very, very

difficult to get tounless you driveyour ball very fardown the fairway soyou have a shortiron in your handsto get to. The greenis flat in the back,and about the cen-ter of the green itstarts to slope back

down toward thefront of the green.

“Just like a lot of the holes out here, ifthe pin’s in the back of the green, back inthat nook-and-cranny, back-right, you obvi-ously want a shorter club in your hands soyou may be more aggressive off the tee. Ifthe pin’s in the front of the green, it’s a lit-tle bit more accessible with a longer ironbecause it’s open in front of the green.

“But if you have a short iron in yourhand and you’re hitting to the front holelocation, it is possible that the ball willspin backwards and go off the green.”

No. 10 (PAR 5, 561): MORAN SAYS:“This is a reachable par 4 for probably halfthe field. We’ve got two fairway bunkers,one short-left, one long-right. A straightdrive into the fairway will get into [long-right] bunker.

“With a reasonably straight fairway shot,you’ve got 240, 250

yards, and that’s thedecision that a prowill have to make. Ifthey’ve got their ballin the left side of thefairway, they’ll have ashot to the green overthe corner of thetress.

“But if you hit theball on the right sideof the fairway, most

players wouldn’t beable to get a three up over the trees thathigh so they’ll probably take the option oflaying up. A lay-up on this hole is maybe a7-iron and a sand wedge to the green.

“It’s not that difficult as far as the lay-up. A lot of the longer hitters will be ableto hit it over the left fairway bunker andhave basically about 200 yards, and that’sreally, ideally, where you’d want to be ifyou’re a longer player.

“Green com-plex is muchmore difficultthan it used tobe. Used to bevery flat, just anormal green.Now it runsaway from you,it’s narrowfrom left toright, [slope]kinda goesaway from front-left to back-right at an angle. If you missthe ball to the right of the green at all,whether it’s the front of the green or theback of the green, there’s a large collec-tion area now.

“The green’s kinda elevated with a falseright front, so if the ball is short or spinsoff the green it’ll collect in that area andrun down maybe five to 10 paces from thegreen and you’ll have to chip out. You’vegot to keep it left. … But there’s a largepot bunker front-left of the green.

“That pot bunker really only comes intoplay for those guys trying to get to thegreen in two.”

No. 11 (PAR 4, 413): MORAN SAYS:“Placement hole off the tee, 90-degreedogleg left. Basically you have to hit a teeball anywhere from 230 to 250 yards, whichfor most players is going to be either a 3-wood or a hybrid.

“It’s not onewhere you try toget aggressive.The more youtry to bite offthe corner themore the treesand out-of-bounds comeinto play. Out-of-bounds isright and left,but the one onthe left side of the hole is the one that real-ly comes into play on the inside of the dog-leg.

“Most players won’t hit it too far through

the fairway off the tee, they know theyhave to hit it a certain distance off the tee... 140 to 170 depending if they’re on theleft side or the right side.

“The green slopes severely from theback to the front; and from the middle it’ll

slope to the left. Theleft side of the green,the front and in backare protected by

bunkers. So anytimethe flag position is leftit brings into play thebunker that’s short-leftof the green and long-left of the green.

“If the pin’s on theright, the only thingthat’ll come into play

is missing the green tothe right, [where] there is rough, the ballwon’t run very far.”

No. 12 (PAR 4, 373): MORAN SAYS:“Hole 12 continues a series of par 4s thatreally are placement holes off the teewhere you have to hit the ball X-distanceoff the tee. Just be careful if you get it tothe left side or the right side of the fairwaybecause there is trouble long on all those[placement] holes.

“And they’re all slight doglegs, 12 is aslight dogleg to the right. … Biggestattraction at 12 is the large pond thatfronts the green, and [also] to the right. Itactually starts about 110 yards out fromthe green. The second shot is almost atotal carry of the water.

“Off the tee there’s a large tree to theright of the landing area that you have tobe careful of. Place your tee ball to the left

of the tree. And there’salso a bunker to theleft side of that fair-way.

“But if you keepyour ball short of thatbunker the landingarea is very, very gen-erous and you’ll haveprobably 140, 150yards to the green. Ifyou thread the needleand get it up between

the bunker and the treeyou’ve got about 120.

“But the difference in 20 yards, especial-

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ly to a tour pro — especially when you’vegot a short club inyour hand —isn’t that muchof a difference.You’ll see a lot ofguys hitting 8-irons and 9-ironsto this green.

“The green isguarded by abunker left, abunker short.Actually is a pret-ty severe green. Thegreen works off of both bunkers with itsundulations working into the center of thegreen, then everything slopes down to theright side of the green. … If you didn’t getthe ball on the green where you wanted to,sometimes it can be a difficult two-putt.

“A short par 4, but like most of the par 4sat Fox Den it’s about placement — how faryou’re going to hit it off the tee. … If youmiss your second shot to the green it’sgoing to be a difficult two-putt.”

No. 13 (PAR 3, 166): MORAN SAYS:“Hole 13 in my opinion and other people’sopinion is the biggest change in the recon-struction. The water, which is to the rightof the green coming off of 12 green, neverused to be in play.

“The green was very large, there was a

fairly flat area between the green and thewater, so if you missed the ball to the rightit would not go in the water very much.Fairly flat from the tee box all the way to

the green, so a ballshort would run intothe green.

“Now the green iswhat you might call aclassic saddleback inthe sense that the highpoints are in the backof the green and thefront of the green isthe low points in themiddle of the green.

“There’s also ashelf on the back-left of

the green that a hole location can be set. Avery small, small area if you’re short orright. The ball will come back or roll off tothe right side of the green, where once a10-foot putt turns into a 20-foot putt.

This green is alittle bit larger[than otherFDCC par 3s]because of theseverity of thewater and thebunkers thatguard it. Butthe severity ofthe green iswhat protectsthe hole and

keeps from giving up a lot of birdies.”No. 14 (PAR 4, 368): MORAN SAYS:

“A position hole [where] some long driverswill send it to the right of the fairway overthe fairwaybunkers and leavethemselves withabout 60, 70 yardsto the green.

“But dependingon hole locations itcan be an aggressiveplay or very smartplay. The play iseither a 3-wood orhybrid to the left ofthe fairway bunkersthat guard the rightside of the fairway. Very generous fairway.

“From there it’s about a 130-140-yard shotslightly uphill to a green, which, again, is longfront-to-back, narrow right-to-left, and has avery large bunker to the left side — a slope

works off of that bunkerinto the center of thegreen that separatesthe front and back of

the green. “The [green’s] high

point is middle-left,sloping to the rightand then it slopes tothe back and down tothe front as well. Fairlysimple hole. As long asyou make an aggres-

sive swing with a club that isn’t going to getyou in trouble, you’re left with a fairly sim-ple second shot.”

No. 15 (PAR 4, 427): MORAN SAYS:“In my opinion thelast of the position-ing holes. ... and themost difficult.

“You can be a lit-tle bit aggressive onthis hole, taking itdown the right sideof the fairway closeto the cart path.Again the play hereis either a hybrid ora 3-wood off the tee

to put it down there inthe 60-yard range. Pretty wide fairway.

“But the further down you get toward thebend in the fairway, dogleg right, it starts tonarrow up and there’s some tall pines thatcome into play on the right. There is a pondthat’s left of the green that comes intoward the front of the green that, if youdon’t have a good tee ball, you’re having tohit a shot you’re not very comfortable with.

“You’ve always got the danger of missingit left of the green and into the water. Thebailout is to the right, there’s a lot of roomto the right, you’ll see a lot of golf balls hitover there.

“Longest of all the [placement hole] sec-ond shots. It’s just a straightforward shot

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No. 16 (PAR 3, 214): MORAN SAYS:“Sixteen always plays as one of the more dif-ficult holes on the golf course.

“Total carry overwater. Very, verylarge green to tryand accept theshots from thatfar away. Thegreen is a littleshallower fromback to front, butthey made it verywide from right toleft. There’s aslope in the greenthat goes from thebunker that guardsthe green front-right, to about the middle ofthe green. There’s a small ridge there.

“Most of the slope in the green is fromthe back to the front, which is appropriate-ly done to try to accept the long shots from210 yards to keep the ball on the green.

“This is one of the holes that they’llprobably move up to the next set of teeboxes and play about 187 depending onwind. … probably one or two days out of

the tournament. … If the wind is from theright and into you, the hole plays very, verydifficult. So it is one of the par 3s thatthey’d probably move up.

“For some of the shorter players, if it wereinto the wind there would easily be someplayers that would have to hit a 3-wood here.I don’t ever like to hit 3-wood on par 3s. If thewind’s helping, I’ll hit a 4-iron probably fromthe 214-marker. If the wind is just normal I’llprobably hit my No. 3-hybrid.”

(Moran says this is thesecond part of a “toughstretch” that beginswith the second shoton No. 15).

“Most players willprobably miss it leftand long. … If you’rereally long, your pitchis back down the hilltoward the water, soyou’ll end up being alittle tentative on that.

“Really, a decentmiss no matter where the

hole location is would probably be thefront-right bunker, as long as it lies decentand it doesn’t plug in the sand. … tourpros can control how the ball comes out ofthat sand real easily.”

No. 17 (PAR 4, 458): MORAN SAYS:“Unless you have a different weather pat-tern, the hole always plays into the wind,which makes it play longer.

“The fairway’s kinda saddle-shaped, every-

thing kinda feeds to the middle of the fairway,which is good off the tee. It is a slight doglegto the left, with a fairway bunker guardingthe right side of the fairway.

“Important is your tee ball; you have toget it up towards the fairway bunker on theright, which is probably in the range of 260to 270 from the tee.

“Being into the wind you want to be able tohave a shorter iron in your hands so you cancontrol the distance and the trajectory. Mostplayers will hit driver offof 17 to get them-selves closer to thehole.

“The green is ele-vated a little bit,the second shotwill be uphillslightly. There’s alarge bunker short-left of the greenand there is abunker to the rightof the green.

“Fairly friendly green,similar to some of the holes on the back-nine. The high point of the green is in theback.

“The front of the green is fairly high, andit kinda funnels to the center of the green.… Shots to the back of the green may stopquicker because of the slope.”

No. 18 (PAR 5, 597): MORAN SAYS:“There may be just a couple of players inthe field that’ll be able to get home in two.

“Everyone will probably hit either a driv-er or a 3-wood off the tee. Driver is not nec-essary because it is a three-shot par 5 foreverybody. Main thing off the tee, about280 yards out on the left side of the fair-way, is a fairway bunker.

“Most players will choose a club thatleaves them short of that fairway bunker,and then they’ll hit either a hybrid or along iron down the fairway.

“Basically choose a club for their secondshot that puts ’em at a

yardage to wherethey have an idealthird shot into thegreen.

“The green,through recon-struction, has beenchanged dramati-cally. Used to bevery player-friend-ly, the water didn’treally come intoplay that much.

The green was very flat,including the areas around the greens.

“Now it’s short and right to the green,it’s sloped off into the water so any shortshots that missed the green to the right inthe rough will bound down into the water.

“Also, the fairway bunker left of thegreen works some slope into the green, aridge that runs into the left side of thegreen makes your club selection verycrucial.”

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