When you reach the first tee at The Preserve, you’ll pick your tee. Maybe your back is a little tight, so you play forward today. Maybe your swing feels sharp, so you walk back to the tips.
Six sets of tees sit between roughly 5,000 and just over 7,200 yards, and the choice is yours to make every time you show up.
Let’s say you start wide. The first tee opens onto a fairway with plenty of room, and you spend the next few holes settling into your swing.
By the time you reach the fifth hole, the course hands you its best birdie chance. The fairway stays wide, no water sits in play, and a solid approach gets rewarded on a green ready to accept a good shot.
Then, you walk to the sixth tee, and bunkers guard the left side of the fairway, a stream runs along the right, and your approach, often a third shot if you laid up, lands on one of the toughest greens you'll face all day.
Two par 5s back to back, and you make two completely different decisions standing over the ball.
Coming off six, the course keeps testing you at a different pace.
The forced carries stay limited to three holes total, so most of your tee shots leave you with choices and not one narrow path to the fairway.
Greens sit guarded by bunkers set at depths you can escape, so a missed shot costs you strokes, but not your whole hole.
By the time you're walking up eighteen, you've played a round that built gradually from an easy opener to a demanding middle stretch and never once repeated itself.
You could play this course every day for a season and never settle into a rut.
Start on the forward tees while you find your form and move back once your swing sharpens. The same eighteen holes give you a new test every time.
That's the appeal for a member who's serious about the game. The course stays put. How you play it never has to.