Official hole guide · Verbatim course-site wording · user-supplied
The course begins with a medium-length par four with a very wide fairway. Avoid the lagoon along the right side and you will have a short approach to a green protected by bunkers on the front left. The green’s prominent ridge on the right will help feed balls toward left hole locations.
Hit the tee shot 225-235 yards from Blue to center the widest mapped first-shot window—approximately 36 yards across, leaving roughly 140 yards to green center.
Recon cue
Use the width, but finish left of the right-side water. Center green is the clean start.
Primary danger
Lagoon right · front-left sand
Love397
Blue · playing tee370
White343
Gold332
The plan
Hole 1, from above.
AIM 225-235Window ≈36 yds wide
Water right · in play through 255
Water left · from 205 through 370
Bunker left · reach 340, through 355
Bunker right · reach 350, through 370
Aim 225-235 · leaves ~140 to center
Imagery: Google Earth · Airbus / Maxar / Landsat-Copernicus. Carry and reach numbers are map-measured planning references calibrated to the official Blue yardage — the strip is a schematic scale, not a GPS readout.
Hole-specific video
See Hole 1 move.
Atlantic Dunes · Hole 1 · Mark Crossfield on-course seriesWatch on YouTube ↗