Par 4 – 283 yards
A.W. Tillinghast designed three separate 9-hole sides at Ridgewood CC and members play the sides accordingly: East Center; Center West; West East.
When Ridgewood was chosen to host a FedEx Cup playoff event they created a composite championship routing that utilizes holes on all three sides so the 6th hole on center is the 12th on the championship course but its affectionately known as 5 and dime or nickel and dime since you might make a 5 or a 10 on this devilish uphill drivable par 4. Tillinghast originally named the hole “Scoonie”. I’ve played the hole hundreds of times in my life and I still marvel at its genius. Tilly expertly used the tilt of the land to create the hole and its pitch playing up and left to right is a significant element to its challenge. The hole is drivable for elite players with even less than driver but a left miss above the hole leaves a brutal short pitch to the green running away and the width of the green is so modest you feel like you could broad jump from one side to the other. A right miss leaves you in gnarly rough pitch blind over the well bunkered right side to the green pitched toward you, which can be helpful, but slightly long puts you in a bunker playing a shot that is virtually impossible to hold the green. Its why shots accumulate so quickly on the hole. The most practical approach is an iron or hybrid to the right center of the fairway to play a pitch to the elevated green but with the full depth of the green available to you but it is two tiered. This is one of the most interesting and provocative holes ever built by Tillinghast and it will always challenge your belief in how you chose to play it.