Hole 6 | Index |
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Hole Number 6, par 5, 466 yards, straight away. The broad landing area for the drive is downhill from the tee and a long sand trap runs most of the length of the fairway on the left along the base of a steep hill covered with unmown rough vegetation. The second shot is blind up the side of a steep hill with a large cliff to the ocean on the right. This is the beginning of what is said to be the most difficult 5 holes at Pebble Beach. The wind was blowing right to left on this hole.
Erv hit a beautiful drive (driver) straight down the left side of the fairway. He tried to keep his second shot left with a 4-iron away from the cliff and pulled it too far to the left and it landed in the front edge of a fairway bunker that was invisible from below the hill. His sand wedge out of the bunker was 40 feet short of the green. A chip shot to the left side of the green with a pitching wedge left a difficult downhill putt. The first putt went about 3 feet to the left of the hole; he made the short second putt for a bogey 6. Ben hit a high drive that faded left with the wind and carried into the tall rough to the left of the fairway sand trap. Luckily, we found his ball but it was a terrible lie in tall grass. He shanked a 3-iron right into the fairway bunker and barely got it out with a sand wedge. He then pulled a 4- iron way left over the hill in front of the 8th tee. He made a good recovery with a pitching wedge to the green and 2 putted for a double bogey 7. |
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