Truist’s 6 most critical shots

The PGA Tour returned to the Philadelphia area for the first time in three years, without much better environment.

The Wissahickon course at Philadelphia Cricket Club will host the Truist Champion of the PGA Tour this week as a week-long tournament for Quail Hollow Club, which will host next week’s PGA Championship. Philadelphia cricket offers a few opportunities to best showcase Aw Tillinghast’s work.

The course is not familiar to most PGA Tours and global golf audiences today. The Golden Age track in 1922 experienced Keith Foster’s 2014 restoration work, and has since held several Marquee events, including the 2015 PGA Professional Championship, the 2016 Senior Player in 2016 and the 2024 American Amateur Four Goals. Cricket Club has three courses within its scope and even held two American Opens (1907 and 1910) in its original course, the Now-9-Hole St. Martins courses in the Chestnut Hill community.

I’ve been a member of Philadelphia cricket for 14 years and I’ve cycled hundreds of times on Wissahickon Field and played from almost every place.

With cricket preparing for global golf ball for the first time in over 100 years, that’s what I think will be the six most critical shots in this week’s TRUIST Championship.

Tee shot on No. 8 (Punch 3, 240 yards)

In its usual layout, I describe Wissahickon as six holes in the gut, followed by six No-BS (aka the holes you need to score), and knocked in the gut with six holes.

The tournament organizers have chosen to re-enter Brut Philly Cricket for Truist, though, meaning players will start on points-free holes and then tied to boots in this round. While holes 6 and 7 (members 13 and 14) are not cake walks, the gloves will indeed start in 8 strokes of 3.

No. 8 is a radar (Redan) that will challenge the player to hit anything from long iron to fairway wood, using green left and right balls to get the ball close. A huge left bunker that players can’t see green will attract most of the attention, but the right side of the green is the important side. The small slope of green is short and can be holed to the right bunker, and any shot from that side will be difficult to stop while the green runs.

Tee shot on No. 10 (449 yards) (449 yards)

I think this is one of the two toughest tees in the course. This is the left.

The two bunkers on the left should not be a factor for longer players, as they brought them the wind of the campaign to help the right shoulder. However, the shape here is important because the right side of the fairway starts to bend at 261 yards and it is difficult to bend along the tree on the left. Starting a little too far from the right, you’ll run straight through the fairway.

Methods for No. 11 (487 codes)

After shooting on another tee, tilt to the left shape. Unless the fairway is strong and windy (usually tailwind), most players will kick a second ball from the top of the mountain (pictured above). Their approach would ignore the clubhouse and the run of Lorriane, the only water hazard in the entire property. This hole is the 18th hole in a regular game.

The severely sloping green is clearly defined in both layers, with its knobs running along the ridgeline. Regardless of where the pin is, a prudent game is aiming at the knob and getting along with any direction the ball drops.

The most dangerous flag is the left middle pin on the higher floor, as any short side miss (including the left bunker) will prove up and down hard.

The shot was about seven yards downhill from the top of the mountain.

Method for No. 15 (5 pole, 553 yards)

For almost everyone in the field, both par-5s can be split into two, but the second will all be second.

Tillinghast’s “Great Danger” (a piece of bunker collage) will break the fairway collage within 340 yards of two yards from Tee – but only works if someone misses the court.

Despite the 32-yard deep in green, anyone who wants an eagle putt must reach the height of the green. Short term is better than length because green falls. The former bunker is not a bad lady. There is a lot of action expected for the sand this week.

Tee shot on No. 16 (Player 3, 215 yards)

The last pole of the course will be the last hole in which Lorriane’s run comes into play. However, the real danger here is the severity of the slant green.

The latter three bunkers are deadly, and you don’t want to stand out in the left or right bunkers either.

Two shelves define this green on the back and the rear right. I would be shocked if the pins were not used on either rack.

Tee shot on No. 17 (4, 498 yards)

No. 17 is one of the most magnificent holes on the card, and it is not easy in itself. The second-long 4-shot game is usually a disadvantage, but that’s everything you’re after.

The right bunker requires 292 yards of carry, while the front of the left bunker is 305. A t-shirt moving from left to right helps expand the corridor, but pushes it too far and you bring the old abandoned Reading Railroad Trestle into the game.

A common miss (at least one mortal) is pulling to the left side of the left bunker, but plays a very awkward angle on the green herd.

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