This is 15th green from a side 
view (in the picture right) and you can see how well the entrance is guarded to any kind of run up shot.

Davis Love had it in the rough off the tee here and bogied the hole in a very up and down back nine on Friday.

Once you've negotiated the wind and the rough into these greens there's a lot of work to finish on the correct side of the pin to get the job done.  


And this green is no exception with deep bunkering surrounding and the surface typically mounded as well.

This is the 15th green from behind the green and looking back down the narrow bunkered fairway towards the tee in the distance.  

It's 31 yards deep with the green falling off to the right.  Depending on your lie and where the pin is will help determine whether you must run it along the ground, 'links style', or play a pitch more into the air.

There is an area you can run your ball through and most professional misses will be short and right, unless the pin for that day is over there. 

Here's the 163 yard par three 16th green from behind the green looking back to the tee shot -(Pix right).

Although it's relatively short in yardage, both the tee and the green sit up and are totally exposed to the day's wind.  

So far this week it's blown 15 to 30 mph and this hole has played into that wind.  

I watched Tiger Wood's play a beautiful low punch 5 iron here on Friday to make birdie, and Love a high 6 iron right at it, to a deep right hand pin in less wind for his par three.

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