If you hook the ball at Tiffany Greens, you're in for a long day. That also describes the par-4 fifth hole, and the par-4 seventh, and the par-4 eighth, the par-5 11th and the par-4 14th. The par-4 second has a tree-lined creek to the left and a huge bunker reaching into the fairway from the right. With the exception of the opening hole, a zigzag par-5 over a lake that plays so short with the prevailing south wind that even I was able to reach the green with a driver and a 4-iron, the bulk of the course is a succession of straight lookalike golf holes. The routing is spread out to maximize housing lot frontage (and to avoid some of those power-line easements). Tiffany Greens, which opened in 1998, is simply one of RTJ II's less imaginative designs. The magic they captured there did not transfer to this site. The two corporate giants had previously collaborated on the far superior Highland Springs Country Club in Springfield, Missouri a decade earlier. Hammons and the course architect was Robert Trent Jones Jr. At the far right end of the driving range is a large electrical substation, a very unattractive sight to view. Worse yet, its property crisscrossed with electrical towers and high voltage electrical lines. For starters, the course was built primarily to push the sales of homesites in an area where you'd never otherwise think of living: In former farm fields directly beneath the path of traffic flying into and out of Kansas City International Airport a mile away. I've never much cared for Tiffany Greens Golf Club in Kansas City, mainly because I've felt it represented a lot of what was wrong with golf course architecture in the boom years of the 1990s. From Golf Digest Architecture Editor emeritus Ron Whitten:
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