Ohio Golf Journal February 2020

in The Quarry. It has been chosen as one of America’s Greatest Courses’ by Golf Digest for 20 years. He punctuated a nice rolling terrain of 13 fun holes with five dynamic gems, starting at the 13th par 3, a 184-yard shot to a tiny green hugging the 80-foot cliffs on the right and a ravine to clear on the tee shot. This quintet of closing holes will give you as much trepidation as you have ever felt. Before teeing off at the short par 5 14th, it would be wise to locate where the green is. Once in the right side of the fairway, where most golfers play safe to avoid the left side which careens dramatically, you cannot see the green. From there I recommend a layup to about 100 yards so you can stop your third shot on the green, or ‘arrivederci baby.’ Teeing off from an elevated green at No. 15, a par 4, to a fairway at the bottom of the quarry, I really enjoyed this hole with the limestone walls as the backdrop to the green hugging a sparkling turquoise pond along the left. Two good shots and you can be walking away with a birdie. You climb out of the quarry to what I consider one of the toughest holes, the 429-yard par 4, 16th with trouble looming all the way down the left as the fairway narrows approaching the green overlooking the big hole in the ground. Your last challenge is another par 3 at 218 yards hitting into a ravine with a two-tiered narrow Ohio Golf Journal