Golf

Bluegrass

Hole Description

The opening hole is a downhill, medium-length par 4. Out of bounds and a deep bunker guard the left of the fairway. A well struck tee shot will settle at the bottom of the hill, leaving a short iron to the green.

Bluegrass

Hole Description

The par 5 second demands a precise tee shot to avoid a deep bunker on the right and out of bounds on the left. Longer hitters will be able to reach this green in two shots. The layup shot must be placed between, or beyond, two fairway bunkers that flank a right to left sloping fairway.

Bluegrass

Hole Description

The green is well guarded by a deep bunker in the front/left portion of the green as well as another to the right side. The green slopes from left to right and shots placed to the right side of the green have a good chance of running off the surface and into the rough.

Bluegrass

Hole Description

The fourth hole is a dogleg right around a beautiful lake. Longer hitters can cut the corner and fly the lake leaving a short iron into the green. Most players should place their tee shot between the water on the right and the fairway bunkers on the left leaving a middle iron into a green with an open entrance on the left and a bunker on the right.

Bluegrass

Hole Description

This hole features a red penalty area up the left side and a deep fairway bunker on the right of the first landing zone. Playing close to the left bunker in the second landing area provides the best angle into the green. Fairway approaches wrap around both sides of the front-left bunker, creating a variety of challenging hole locations.

Bluegrass

Hole Description

The 6th is longest par 4 on the property. A good tee shot is required to reach this hole in regulation. Stray tee shots will need to negotiate a pond that is short and left of the green. Par is always a good score here.

Bluegrass

Hole Description

This hole features a deep bunker short/left of the green as well as bunkers on the right. The green is severely sloped from back to front, so keeping the tee shot below the hole is the smart play.

Bluegrass

Hole Description

This long par 4 requires a tee shot that needs to carry the left cross bunkers, or fit between them and the and rough and trees on the right. The green is guarded by a deep, front/right bunker.

Bluegrass

Hole Description

One of the toughest holes at Old Westbury, this hole plays significantly up hill. The tee shot must avoid the left fairway bunker. The green features a false front and a strong, back to front slope.

Overlook

Hole Description

This opening hole is a downhill, slight dogleg left. Longer hitters can carry the left fairway bunkers leaving a short iron to the green and a good birdie opportunity.

Overlook

Hole Description

A long, straight, uphill par 4. Approach shots tend to release when hitting the right to left sloped green and can easily run off the back left. The green is protected by deep bunkers on the left and right.

Overlook

Hole Description

Any tee shot up the right side of the hole, if not hit long enough, will be blocked by a big tree. Layups must avoid the fairway bunkers on the right side. Approach shots are difficult, as this shallow green features a false front as well as a pronounced, back to front surface.

Overlook

Hole Description

Water comes into to play on the right side of both the tee and approach shots. Long tee shots must also negotiate a set of fairway bunkers on the left. Approach shots into this elevated green are tough to hold. An errant approach shot miss the green to the right, will most likely find the water.

Overlook

Hole Description

This scenic and challenging par 3 features water lining the entire right side of the hole. A deep bunker on the left leaves a very difficult recovery shot for players that bail out left.

Overlook

Hole Description

This uphill hole plays significantly longer than its yardage. Players must thread the tee shot between offset fairway bunkers to create any opportunity of reaching this green in two. The elevated green features a severely sloped, crescent-shaped tier that demands approach shots be hit to the proper cupping area, or face else getting down in two putts is extremely difficult.

Overlook

Hole Description

This long, dogleg left par 4 is framed by well-placed bunkers up the right side of the fairway and a strong slope and dense trees up the left. The green is guarded by two deep bunkers on the left.

Overlook

Hole Description

This medium/long par 3 features a green protected by multiple bunkers. Players missing left will face a difficult recovery shot, as the green slopes from left to right.

Overlook

Hole Description

This dogleg left hole plays uphill, with trees guarding the entire left side of the fairway. The difficult approach shot must carry the green’s false front, or risk having the ball roll back off the green and down the fairway. The green features the most severe back to front slope on the course. Par is always a good score on number 9.

Woods

Hole Description

This scenic, short, downhill par 5 can yield many birdie opportunities after a well struck tee shot. Players must avoid a deep, blind bunker on the left side of the first landing area. The approach shot is downhill with water guarding the front and right of the green and bunkers on the left. The green slopes to the right-rear, so expect shots to run to the back when landing on the green and especially when going for this green in two.

Woods

Hole Description

This long, straight hole has the only blind tee shot on the course. There are no bunkers on either side of the tree-lined fairway. The green runs sharply from left to right. Approach shots that miss left will have difficulty chipping it close.

Woods

Hole Description

A medium length par 4 that features a deep cross bunker angling into the left side of the fairway. Longer hitters can carry the bunker, leaving a short iron into the green. Shots that don’t carry onto the elevated green risk rolling down the false front and back down the fairway.

Woods

Hole Description

A medium length par 4 that features a deep cross bunker angling into the left side of the fairway. Longer hitters can carry the bunker, leaving a short iron into the green. Shots that don’t carry onto the elevated green risk rolling down the false front and back down the fairway.

Woods

Hole Description

Perhaps Old Westbury’s most difficult par 3. The hole is long and significantly uphill, with bunkers guarding the front and left of a green that is sloped from back to front. Par is a great score here.

Woods

Hole Description

This hole is a 90 degree dogleg to the right. The green is fairly small, with a steep run-off on the left and a bunker on the right.

Woods

Hole Description

This par 5 requires most players to lay up on their second shot, just short of the penal bunker complex that crosses the fairway. The green is angled diagonally from right to left, with a lake long and right of the green.

Woods

Hole Description

This long par 3 offers a two-tiered green with a deep bunker on the right. There is a run-off and chipping area left of the green, from where saving par is difficult left.

Woods

Hole Description

This uphill par 4 plays much longer than its yardage. Players not avoiding the fairway bunkers on the left may have to lay up short of the pond that guards the green. Long or left approach shots face a significant challenge to get the chip shot close to the hole.