LOS ANGELES Golf course architecture is a selective art. One players perfection is anothers pasture, but of the 900 holes played on the PGA Tour there is one that has no equal.The drivable par-4 10th hole at Riviera Country Club isnt the toughest (it actually ranked as the 700th hardest frame last season with a 3.87 scoring average) and its certainly not the most scenic, but from a pure strategic viewpoint it stands above all others at golfs highest level.The 10th is a thinking mans hole, often played based on a wide variety of factors, from where the pin is located to the wind direction, and to even more varied results.On Thursday at the Genesis Open, the 309-yard gem proved yet again why longer is not better when it comes to architecture.Of the 144 players who took their turns on No. 10 on Day 1, 91 attempted to drive the green. Only two actually ended up on the putting surface.Of those 91 bold souls who went for the green off the tee, 17 made birdie compared with five birdies from those who laid up; but then the subtle genius of the hole is that scoring isnt necessarily the ultimate arbiter.Consider the days marquee threesome of Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas. Woods and Thomas hit irons off the tee, leaving themselves roughly 85-yard approach shots to a pin cut in the back-right portion of the green. McIlroy hit a fairway wood just short of the green. All three made birdie, albeit via completely different routes.
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It was a high-profile example of why theres no right way to play the hole, only your way.I just try to hit it just anywhere short left or long left of the green, figured Dustin Johnson, the games preeminent bomber of the golf ball. It's a tough hole, but I just try to play it down the left side and hopefully my ball ends up in a decent spot.Others, like Woods, adhere to a more calculated approach.I have done both, I've gone for it and laid up and I've been very unsuccessful both ways, Woods laughed. It's a tossup, it really is.Most players will base their decision on where the pin is located, figuring that anything on the right side is worth trying to drive the green since the best miss is left. Any hole location left of center, however, creates a question and, more importantly, doubt.Its the sign of a well-designed hole that there is no standard answer because as a rule players would rather not make a game-time decision. In fact, it seems players who have resigned themselves to a single plan are the ones who seem to have the most success on the 10th hole.Smash it, every time, Paul Casey smiled when asked his blueprint for the hole. In fact, the Englishman didnt even seem interested in the odds or the concept of a good miss, like Johnson, Right at the pin is the best option.There are plenty of very good golf holes on Tour from the 13th at Augusta National to the seventh at Pebble Beach but none require as much thought as No. 10 which is, quite simply, the most interesting and entertaining 309 yards on Tour.
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