Hole 18 – Home

492 yards

As your round at CCC reaches its climax, you turn homeward toward the hillside and the clubhouse. Raynor originally designed this long par 4 with a diagonal hazard, which his drawings depicted as either a ditch or a pipe with an accompanying bunker. For nearly 70 years, a diagonal ditch cut across the prime landing zone and dictated strategy. Over the past three decades, that feature disappeared, and with it much of the hole’s original character.

Given the modern drainage improvements in the 18th fairway and the severity of the original ditch penalty, Kyle Franz has chosen to recreate the diagonal hazard with three bunkers instead of restoring the ditch itself. A bold drive that carries the left bunker earns the ideal angle into the green. Approaching the green from the right side of the fairway brings the right greenside bunker and the left and back-left greenside bunkers more into play.

The green has been restored using LaFoy’s elevations and multiple 1930s photographs from the Tournament of the Gardens, which reveal two slightly staggered spines separating the front and back halves of the putting surface. Approaches and putts that finish on the wrong side of those spines will make closing out a good round anything but simple.