Triple Crown Country Club

Triple Crown Country Club in Union, Kentucky, plays over a course credited to architect Bates, with strategy demanded from the opening tee shot.

The first is a dogleg bordered by out of bounds on the right and a penalty area on the left, with a fairway bunker to carry or lay back from and a well-protected green that bold hitters sometimes try to reach over the trees. A short par 3 follows, playing slightly downhill across a lake to a long but shallow green divided by a ridge, where wind and club selection matter as much as avoiding a long miss. Another dogleg tempts longer players to challenge a fairway bunker, with out of bounds down the left and an ash tree guarding the approach from the left side of the fairway; putts there tend to break toward the front middle of the green.