If you follow the “National” with the “Player” nine hole course, and even if you start with the Player, your fun has just begun. After possibly the most severe plateau on the whole layout awaiting your approach to the green on Player #1, you’ve got to make possibly your most important on-course decision at the driveable par-4 second. The second-best risk/reward hole on the course (to the Weed’s signature #6), Player #2 is only 294 yards from the tips, with the prevailing southerly wind at your back. The smart play is your longest controllable iron to the narrow but flat “runway” and then a short pitch to the green, but imagine the story you’ll tell about driving the green and holing the eagle putt!

The par-5 sixth also requires that you know your game and its limitations. The sharp dogleg right is reachable in two, IF you can cut the corner off the tee and IF you can carry a pond right in front of the green. IF you can, birdie (or better) is yours. IF you can’t? Then there’s the par-3 eighth, which you can play from 125-175 yards, depending on which of SEVEN different tee positions you choose, but all of it is over water.