Hole 18
Gold
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434
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Blue
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428
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White
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347
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Red
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340
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Number 18 - Par 4 - HCP 4 - Buckle your seat belts for a bumpy ride. The home hole is the longest par four on the course and certainly the most difficult. The uphill tee shot almost always plays into the wind and the rough is as thick as anyplace on the course. A new pot bunker has been added on the right tight against the fairway. Also, a bunker at 280 yards on the left has seen a lot of action in the past two MIC tournaments. The second shot is generally a long iron from an awkward uphill-sidehill lie to a two tiered green over 100 feet in length. Donald Ross was noted for his contoured greens and mounded approaches which he explains “makes possible an infinite variety of nasty short shots that no other form of hazard can call for”. A two tiered green, a swale that runs diagonally through the middle of the green, bunkers left and long and a combination of gentle and severe mounding at every turn make the 18th green at Monroe a Ross classic.