Todd Bramwell
Raleigh, N.C.
We chose the winner after
first narrowing the number of entries to three
finalists, including
Todd Bramwell, who places most of the hole’s challenge on
the tee shot,
which has to avoid two sets of bunkers on either side of the
fairway
and encroaching on the line of play.
From the fairway, the
approach offers a more straightforward shot to the large, kidney-shaped
green, which is guarded chiefly by a bunker in front.
Darwin Webb
Issaquah, Wash.
As a landscape
designer, Dar Webb knows plenty about making eye-pleasing
scenes. He
combined his vocation with his love of golf to design a hole with
plenty of aesthetics, strategy and difficulties.
Dar’s hole has
a center
bunker that asks players to make a decision off the tee: left
or right. Due to
the angle of the green and the placement of the
greenside bunker, the right
side of the fairway is preferable but
presents a much smaller target
than the left side.
