10 at Riviera. Is it as glamorous as the media puts on?

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Its a gimmicky hole but it works. Trouble everywhere near the green and the layup isn't an easy shot either. I watched a bit of the featured groups earlier and pretty much everyone made a mess of the hole. The common strategy is to just blast it near the green and hope to get lucky.

Having played the hole, it's like trying to land your approach shot on a dining room table. The green is fairly segmented and there are multiple levels and everything slopes away toward the bunkers, a la Pinehurst #2.

The tee shot isn't a gimme either.

francisco molinari explains the hole strategy

"Players" consider it one of the greatest par 4s in all of golf

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Players" consider it one of the greatest par 4s in all of golf

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I love easy birdies too

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10 at Riviera. Is it as glamorous as the media puts on?

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As a short par 4, its withstood the test of time of the longer hitters. Lots of other great holes in golf had to be adjusted because you could drive post the hazards.

There was a piece this week that it’s become too short and the green is too extreme now, so there’s zero benefit to laying up. The idea used to be that you chose to go for it but if you didn’t pull it off, you likely were making bogey or worse. Or you laid up and had a relatively easy wedge shot for your second. But the green has shrunk and they stimp it out to 13 and you can’t spin a 60 yard wedge enough to hold the green unless you hit it to the absolute perfect spot.

They’ve done the “Sabermetrics” on it and like OP said, the play is to the front left of the green cause that your best statistical chance to make birdie. Even if you go in the front bunker or long left, you’ve got a better chance for a four than from the layup zone