Hole 1
Par 4 | Handicap 5
“It is easy to enter Avernus,” begins Dante’s Inferno, and so might the description of number one at Crumpin- Fox begin.
Truly the first of eighteen great finishing holes, the green is invisible from the tee on this sharp dogleg right. The lone pine on the mound to the right beckons the ambitious player.
The prudent player assays a route down the center of the fairway leaving an uncontested mid- iron shot to an elevated green flanked by two cavernous bunkers.
| Tee | Distance |
| BLACK | 414 |
| BLUE | 386 |
| GOLD | 363 |
| RED | 323 |
Hole 2
Par 4 | Handicap 13
As the soaring eagle looks down on all it surveys, so does the elevated green of number two, affording a breathtaking panorama of the wide ascending fairway. A judicious tee ball is struck to the right center of the fairway, leaving a relatively level stance for the short approach shot. The long, narrow green is faced with one daunting bunker running its full length. A natural amphitheater is created by the sloping hillside guarding the left side of the green, offering the prospect of projecting mishit shots to the putting surface or clutching them to its unrelenting bosom.
| Tee |
Distance |
| BLACK |
362 |
| BLUE |
338 |
| GOLD |
323 |
| GREEN |
290 |
| RED |
290 |
Hole 3
Par 3 | Handicap 17
The swirling winds of Huckle Hill make this long downhill par three a contradiction to all who attempt to select the proper club. Facing the golfer in the shape of a child’s bicycle seat, the green is flanked by two severe bunkers at entry point. The dual tiered green terminates in an unruly sloping hillside falling away from the green’s end. Only a foolhardy golfer hurriedly selects his club, since assuredly to overplay the putting surface is to fly in the face of destruction.
| Tee |
Distance |
| BLACK |
193 |
| BLUE |
165 |
| GOLD |
146 |
| GREEN |
133 |
| RED |
133 |
Hole 4
Par 4 | Handicap 11
One looks uphill to the saddle- shaped landing area of this modest par four, with hillside to the left and deep bunkers to the right, and a bit of Prestwick can be inferred. Like Prestwick, the penalties which are not visible are severe indeed. An overly strong tee shot to the left will run through the fairway, down a slope, into a heavily wooded area. The proper tee shot comes to rest in the center of the saddle, and gives a clear view of the green with its vortex contours. An errant approach leaves the golfer with a myriad of plays, none of them desirable.
| Tee |
Distance |
| BLACK |
392 |
| BLUE |
345 |
| GOLD |
315 |
| GREEN |
263 |
| RED |
263 |
Hole 5
Par 5 | Handicap 7
The serpentine view of this rustic golf hole flows downward toward spectacle bunkers framing the left hand side of the landing area. The fairway doglegs upward in a gentle fashion towards the rolling swales in front of the elevated green, replete, as it were, with bunkers. The tee ball must be accurate to avoid the spectacle bunkers left and the brook and OB right. The second shot appears wide open. However, a firm, spinning pitch will only be possible from the fairway. Surely a par here is a good, though not noble score.
| Tee |
Distance |
| BLACK |
528 |
| BLUE |
501 |
| GOLD |
481 |
| GREEN |
424 |
| RED |
424 |
Hole 6
Par 4 | Handicap 3
Whatever may be gained at the fifth can quickly be lost on this mighty par four. A powerful drive struck to the right center of the long descending fairway leaves a relatively straight, uphill shot with a mid to long iron toward the left bunkered, wood armored green. An errant tee shot requires that the golfer play his second shot short of the green and toward the right slope. A birdie here reflects the mettle of the man, as well as his skill.
| Tee |
Distance |
| BLACK |
448 |
| BLUE |
402 |
| GOLD |
379 |
| GREEN |
350 |
| RED |
350 |
Hole 7
Par 4 | Handicap 9
Nowhere, save perhaps for the twelfth hole, is there a more lyrical par four. The tee ball must be struck just past the end of the phalanx of bunkers protecting the left corner of the fairway, where it breaks sharply to the watery grave protecting the putting surface. The strong player may opt (at some peril) to play over the bunkers, but with little recompense. The second shot must avoid the bunker right, a hillside beyond, and water in front of the green which, when fairly reached, reveals little of itself to the reader.
| Tee |
Distance |
| BLACK |
387 |
| BLUE |
353 |
| GOLD |
325 |
| GREEN |
308 |
| RED |
308 |
Hole 8
Par 8 | Handicap 1
Many a golfer’s ashes will be scattered over this hole, but well before they had intended to leave this vale of toil and sin. From the elevated tee the golfer may stand awestruck as he contemplates negotiating the enormous expanse of fairway flanked the entire distance on the left by the lake. After finding the fairway with the tee shot, the golfer has the option of laying up shot, leaving a mid to long iron to the green, or playing a heroic second shot longer and into a narrowing fairway, leaving a short iron to the green. Thence a fiendish shot over a lake to a green offering a variety of challenging pin locations. Discretion here is the better part of valor.
| Tee |
Distance |
| BLACK |
592 |
| BLUE |
568 |
| GOLD |
528 |
| GREEN |
472 |
| RED |
472 |
Hole 9
Par 3 | Handicap 15
It would appear here that the green has been misplaced, since surely that thin diagonal ribbon in the distance fronted by the creek, the bank, and the bunker cannot be a viable target. A glance downward to the flat reveals that the challenge is exactly as it appears, and calls for a tee shot struck to the left center of the green. Many a short putt will be misread on this mysterious surface.
| Tee | Distance |
| BLACK | 204 |
| BLUE | 177 |
| GOLD | 160 |
| GREEN | 120 |
| RED | 120 |
