177 yards / par 3 3.11 average in 2018 french open

NINTH-MOST DIFFICULT

▶ It plays mostly downwind. I can recall hitting a 9-iron off the tee, but it will probably play a little longer than that, even if it’ll be a short iron for most guys.

There are some really difficult pin placements. Not only near the water, but toward the back-left portion of the green. I know they have the pin there at least one day during the French Open. Then they run the other pins along the water—front right, middle right, back right.

Like 15, short and right is dead in the water, and the miss is long and left. I’m reminded of the holes we play at PGA National. I’d much prefer to see the pins there placed along the water so that guys can bail out in the bunker and still get up and down. The pin close to the bunker is the most difficult.

This green is a little wider than those at PGA National, but it still runs away from the left bunker pretty significantly. It looks to me that there is a really tough pin maybe 13 yards on and five from the left. There’s a little shelf up there. Both teams will be very aware of the general areas where pins will be placed.

Sometimes you get two guys at the top of their games getting extremely aggressive in the Ryder Cup. In those cases, the fear of water is diminished. You can only lose one hole, so you see amazing shots.