Par 4 – 397 yards
Picking your favorite hole at Pine Valley is a ridiculous embarrassment of riches to choose from but since my first walk there 40 years ago as a 17-year-old the 11th hole has owned my affections. It was a “found” hole and truly one of the most naturally conceived and constructed holes ever. The land allows for the flow down slightly from tee to fairway and gathering from right to left as well as the return “up” to the putting surface. The look from the tee gives you a completely accurate vision of how the hole moves. It’s also not overly intimidating unlike some of the other holes before and after the 11th. Choices from the tee as the right side is more confining than the left, but the left side runs out with any tee shot even slightly pulled from a right-hander. The green is severely pitched from back to front and is bowl shaped like the valley it sits in. The cross bunker 50 yards short of the green adds thought to any lay-up and the green side bunkers left and right get a lot of action. Nature helped make this, with a minimalist approach, one of the finest holes in the world.