Hole #10 - The King
Only 135 yards separates the golfer from a putt for birdie at ten. But the hole is exemplary of Tillinghast’s greenside defenses. From the tee, the golfer is confronted with a narrow target. The green sits above substantial bunkers that flank it left and right. These bunkers are designed to collect shots that err slightly – like those that kick off the side of the green – or, especially on the right, those that waiver substantially off course because of the presence of mounds that will thrust the offending shot into the sand from the other direction. Being long isn’t the alternative of choice, either. Arnold Palmer, who bogeyed the hole more than once in the 1987 U.S. Senior Open, referred to it “as one of the great short par fours in golf.”