#31 Cog Hill #4 (Dubsdread)
"The nickname "DUBSDREAD" is derived from the idea that a "dub" or poor golfer should beware and served as a warning of the challenges forthcoming."
This course was the site of the Western Open from 1991-2006, and 4 times a FedEx Cup playoff venue. The 2008 redesign by Rees Jones removed 40 or so bunkers ("only" 82 remain), but the removed ones must have been quite redundant, because those still around are very much in play, most of the large greens having 2-3 guarding the approach, and most of the fairways having one or both sides bunkered to frame the tee shot.
There was a fair amount of water, too, including some subtle ones. A stream crosses 4 of the front 9 fairways, but is underground in the actual fairway, only surfacing as a small pit in the rough on both sides of the landing area, usually under a bridge carrying the cart path. Reachable, and in play if your drive isn't straight. On the back 9 the water hazards were large, with some forced carries, although not always visible from the tee.
It was political season, and one of the names caught my eye.
No, not that Luis Arroyo.
And the GPS was quite impressive.
More pictures.
This course was the site of the Western Open from 1991-2006, and 4 times a FedEx Cup playoff venue. The 2008 redesign by Rees Jones removed 40 or so bunkers ("only" 82 remain), but the removed ones must have been quite redundant, because those still around are very much in play, most of the large greens having 2-3 guarding the approach, and most of the fairways having one or both sides bunkered to frame the tee shot.
There was a fair amount of water, too, including some subtle ones. A stream crosses 4 of the front 9 fairways, but is underground in the actual fairway, only surfacing as a small pit in the rough on both sides of the landing area, usually under a bridge carrying the cart path. Reachable, and in play if your drive isn't straight. On the back 9 the water hazards were large, with some forced carries, although not always visible from the tee.
It was political season, and one of the names caught my eye.
No, not that Luis Arroyo.
And the GPS was quite impressive.
More pictures.
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