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Architect of the golf courseRees Jones has created or redesigned about 150 courses around the world, including its resuscitation of Bethpage's black route, which hosted the US Open 2009. We asked Jones to sleep for us the nine holes that forced a player to make serious choices . "These are all holes where you can play in a way to handle and just go with your turn"Jones Explains: "or if you need make up, you can take calculated risks to make birds." So read and good luck! And if you are an eager golfer, do not miss these5 smart tips that will stimulate your golf game.

To have a picture of reaching the green in two, you must hit a long trip that pulls around the left Dogleg left. But even more than the strategy, what makes this hole so great is the way it suits the landscape so perfectly. The fairway uses in the same way that you try to hit the ball (right to the left) and Rae's Creek is used for maximum effect. And these azaleas behind the green are beautiful.

The TEE for this hole is sitting on a high dune and plays through a valley to a green that is at the top of another dune with the Atlantic Ocean getting fucked behind it. A bunker protects fiercely the front of the green. In addition to being one of the most pretty contexts imaginable, what makes this old links style hole so interesting is that it changes day by day and sometimes hour on time, depending on Backing winds. And if you want to look stylish while you're on the links, check these30 Timeless style upgrades.

The green on this long by 5 is an island in the middle of a giant salt swamp that is on the left of a long right fairway. If you are long from the tee, you can try to reach it in half, but it requires a second perfect shot. You can lengthen instead, but pay attention to a group of trees than blocking the green.

It says it wasBen HoganThe preferred hole of the Pine Valley. The Fairway is on the left, so the t-shirt here tested you to hit the left side to shorten the distance. If you fall for this song of Siren, the Fairway in left slope enter your bullet into the rough and the trees will block the green. Instead, you must hit correctly, making the hole even longer than its marked interpretation.

Like many other well-designed surfaces, it contains several mini-green in a larger, and it is protected on three sides by two bunkers and a deep canyon. If your drive is at least less than ideal, you must shoot the lower and deeper green medium. From there, it's a two-put ax on the tray and Bogey is never out of the picture.

You do not just need to hit the green, which is sitting at the summit of the fairway as a slope crown on the head of a king, but you must also hit the good part of it because it lightely filled with back at the front and left. If you get rid of the spindle, pay attention, because the slightest overtaking can return your cascading ball on the fairway.

In addition to being a peninsula that stands in the water, the green is diagonal at the fairway, making it a shallow target. Added an insult to an injury, it is divided by a roll that effectively divides it into two separate and smaller surfaces. If you land on the wrong side of the bulge, Birdie is out of the question, and the pair will be difficult.

A good example of how a hole is not necessary to be difficult. It is possible to cut the corner on this slight Dogogle on the left with a driver. But if you go in the rough, you are a goner, most players play a TEE iron. This leaves a second climb quite long in a small multi-level green that makes it imperative to judge the distance.

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A classic redan hole (which means one by 3 with a diagonal pité). This one uses from right to left and has front bunkers and back. The key to playback of a Redan lands the bullet running flag and uses the slope to get it closely. However, the outline of this one is sufficiently constant that you can shoot a placement on the left side if you need birdie. And for more golf, read The 15 celebrity golfers who are definitely better than you.

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This article originally appeared at the issue of the best spring / summer 2004 life of the best life.