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'''Par 4, 361 yards.''' The uphill tee shot may look tight at first, but the sixth hole in fact is one of the easiest driving holes on the course. Both fairway bunkers are out of play for the good player, just 200 yards off the tee, and many tee shots will end up within only pitching or sand wedge distance. However, now the approach is with a spinning club to perhaps the best green on the course: a large false front, a hump on the middle right, and a tongue extending to form the back left portion of the surface. A shot finishing anywhere above the hole will require perfect touch just to keep the subsequent putt on the green. Many seasoned Taconic members will lay up short of a front pin even with a wedge and rely on chipping to produce a 4. In a 2004 Massachusetts Amateur match, Frank Vana and Jim Renner (who recently lost to Michelle Wie in the PubLinks) halved the hole with bogeys after both being 100 yards from the green with their drives. Commented Renner to Vana, “I don’t "I don't know how to hit a shot into that green!”"