Stone Creek Golf Club

Stone Creek Golf Club sits in Oregon City, Oregon, where the front nine plays across largely open ground. With few trees to frame the fairways, the opening stretch has an exposed, links-like character, and wind can be a real factor on shots — particularly at the second, a 182-yard par 3 that ranks as the longest short hole on the course and has no bunkering around its green.

The routing makes use of the site's rolling terrain and ridges. The opening par 4 of 407 yards bends to the right, with the tee shot climbing to a hilltop that looks down on a round green; a single large bunker left of the putting surface, shared with the eighth green, is shaped to appear as several. The third, a 396-yard par 4, doglegs left over a ridge to a semi-blind landing area, leaving a short approach to a green protected front-left by a deep bunker and falling away sharply into heavy rough beyond.