Streamsong Blue

Streamsong Blue was Tom Doak's first look at the old phosphate mine site, and he found his own signature hole almost by accident—landing near the 7th tee by helicopter in 2009 and discovering an 80-foot drop into a 30-acre lake on the far side of a dune he hadn't expected to be there.

Doak and Bill Coore actually walked the whole 36-hole property together before splitting it into Red and Blue, so the two courses share the same DNA of mined-out lagoons and stacked sand dunes—Blue just leans harder into the drama.

The par-3 everyone photographs

The hole Doak found by helicopter

Tom Doak first landed near here by helicopter in 2009 and found a sand dune with an 80-foot drop into a 30-acre lake on the far side—so he built the course's famous par-3 around exactly that view: a shot across the old strip-mine water to a green boxed in by towering dune walls. It's called the most photographed hole in American golf, and Doak has joked more than once about just running a zip line across the pond instead.