bogey hole

[wull]

the home course thread got me thinking.....

what's your least favourite hole at your course and why?pics would be an added bonus.

@ killin it's the 4th hole for me,and then again the 2nd time round (13th) from a different tee which is even more of a pain.

it's a 370 yrd par 4 that is aptly named "the gully"....

it's a blind tee shot to the fairway with tree's lining the right handside from the tee upto the top of the hill.if you shape the ball right to left you've pretty much had it so it definately suits the slicers and mid to high handicappers.they seem to play it ok.

once you get over the hill there is a slight down slope but it slopes left to right so if your ball hugs the left hand side and stays there you've got a hellish "ball below feet" shot.the left hand rough is a massive banking which is left to grow a bit.so it's a 50/50 chance that your ball can come back down onto the fairway but if not you're struggling to advance it any further.

because of my right to left shape i'm constantly worried about going there and many times it's got me.the 2nd shot is also blind to the green,it's not so bad in and around the green with 2 bunkers but if you are short and left there is gorsh bushes and the same way right.

the 2nd time round the tee is further over to the right and a straight line from the tee(missing the tree's on the right) takes you out towards the big sloping bank in the left rough....

definately my least favourite

 

[connor]

the 18th. Its only a par 3 but i have never hit the green. Theres a full length greenside bunker either side and also a road on the right. Problem is there is traffic lights there due to the railway bridge and always cars there waiting. Ive been lucky so far when i have hit the road i have bounced it over a car.
Dont know what it is about this hole but i have a real mental block with it. I dont really dred any hole but im happy to walk off with a bogey here.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Our 6th. Only a 178 yard par 3. OB tight right and waiting left. Actually opens up if you are a little right but get it above the tree line. SI 14 too so no shot. I always take a 4 and move on but usually its a 5 and recently a batch of 6's (three off the tee usally). Should be a nothing hole but a bit of a sleeper in terms of damaging a good card

 

[G1BB0]

our 5th, absolutely hate it, massive dogleg left (like 90 degree's), tiny green, OOB if long on approach and 2 bunkers at the front... its a mare!

 

[bluetoon]

Our 9th 460 yard of the whites Par4.
Plenty of room at 230yard, but then the fairway narrows and is really tight.

A par is a fine score, but typically bogey for me.

 

[Imurg]

On APGC I reckon most peoples bogey hole is the 4th.
459 yards, par 4 SI 1.
Dogleg right. Huge Tree on the right edge of the fairway about 190-200 from the tee. Real deep African Jungle type rough all the way down the right side, most of the way down the left to about 300 when trees take over.
Bunker front left of the green which slopes back to front.
A good drive still leaves you best part of 200 from the green - ok it's slightly downhill but not much. The wind is often across which makes it even trickier.

I par it about once every 4 rounds. Maximum. Worst I've had is an 8 but I know that double figures is achieved regularly

 

[Gazboy]

The 17th of Wycombe Heights - 487 off the yellows. OOB on the left, fairly steep bank with very thick rough on the right, the fairway slopes like the brim of a hat as it follows around the hill. It's the 5th photo here but I have never seen it look that neat or the rough so short, normaly you could hide a tiger in that grass!

http://www.wycombeheightsgc.co.uk/gallery-golf.asp

I'd rip your hand off for a triple bogey.

 

[stef92]

Without doubt the 18th for me!

430 odd yards… INTO THE WIND! Par 4

Off the tee, a very well struck drive will enter a dip, which because you still have roughly 200 yards left if problematical due to the the ridge you have to hit 3-iron/fairway over!

That is off course if you hit a good one and find the fairway… 3 bunkers in exactly the right places guard the fairway which if you find them is a LW out, nothing else… Then if you stray further, thick rough/heather. Then 15 yards off the fairway, OOB left, thick gorse right!

Then, the green is protected by 5 deep bunkers, and a steep rise at the front, gorse short left & right, putting green long left, pro shop long, and the only bailout long right…!

Last time I played we were doing a team stroke play better ball, my score contributed with a +3 7! And everyone else was a Cat 1. golfer…

Here are a few dated pics… The course is tougher and in better condition than in those pics due to the Walker Cup too!

 

[Robobum]

the home course thread got me thinking.....

what's your least favourite hole at your course and why?pics would be an added bonus.

@ killin it's the 4th hole for me,and then again the 2nd time round (13th) from a different tee which is even more of a pain.

it's a 370 yrd par 4 that is aptly named "the gully"....

it's a blind tee shot to the fairway with tree's lining the right handside from the tee upto the top of the hill.if you shape the ball right to left you've pretty much had it so it definately suits the slicers and mid to high handicappers.they seem to play it ok.

once you get over the hill there is a slight down slope but it slopes left to right so if your ball hugs the left hand side and stays there you've got a hellish "ball below feet" shot.the left hand rough is a massive banking which is left to grow a bit.so it's a 50/50 chance that your ball can come back down onto the fairway but if not you're struggling to advance it any further.

because of my right to left shape i'm constantly worried about going there and many times it's got me.the 2nd shot is also blind to the green,it's not so bad in and around the green with 2 bunkers but if you are short and left there is gorsh bushes and the same way right.

the 2nd time round the tee is further over to the right and a straight line from the tee(missing the tree's on the right) takes you out towards the big sloping bank in the left rough....

definately my least favourite

Why don't you just drive it on the front edge?? ;-)

 

[wull]

Why don't you just drive it on the front edge?? ;-)

yawn i'm no timygolf so stop picking on me,i never ever blew my trumpet with regards to yardages so stop it please

being serious though there's no point taking driver becasue it lands where the 2nd hill is so a 3 wood or 3 iron goes almost as far.the 3 iron takes you to the bottom of the hill and leaves you with a better lie,i usually take a 4 or 5 iron from the tee.

 

[CMAC]

not my course but the 2nd at Glasgow Golf club is a dog leg PAR 3

from the left tee there is an enormous old tree between you and the green, going over it would take a driver as its 241 from the whites, 230 from the yellows, so a long draw is really the only way to the green, 99% I'm sure play up and go for a chip and putt.

Any other dog leg par 3's out there?

 

[wull]

not my course but the 2nd at Glasgow Golf club is a dog leg PAR 3

from the left tee there is an enormous old tree between you and the green, going over it would take a driver as its 241 from the whites, 230 from the yellows, so a long draw is really the only way to the green, 99% I'm sure play up and go for a chip and putt.

Any other dog leg par 3's out there?

i wonder has anyone ever played bridge of allan golf club?

the first is a par 3,not a dogleg but it's 230yrds from the whites but straight up hill with a dyke in front of the green and to make it play even further than the 230yrds straight up hill it has a raised green

they reckon it plays 260 yrds and most people play driver.what a starting hole and with it being a 9 hole course you play it twice.i played there for the first time this year in a team match and put it in the bushes over on the right...and second time round i made a 4.very tough!!!

 

[Oddsocks]

Our 13th, nothing majorly hard about it, straight par 4, around 400 yards long off the whites, loads of room out to the right but densely tree lined down the left. You tee off through a tunnel of trees for about the first 100ft of flight, then it opens right up to the right side. Only hazzards on the hole are a small oak tree around 20ft high middle/right side of the fairway at about 260 yards., green has loads of room to the left, small bank to teh right which kicks you off into so dense tree's, and a smallish bunker front right,

An ideal tee shot is a soft fade off the tee, but the grounds rolls away to the right so straight is ok, and leaves an 8-6iron into the green depending on wind. for some reason i can be driving like a demon, get to the hole and out of no-where... BOOOOM SNAP HOOK into the deep woods, whats funny is i always par it with my provisional.

Seriously - if you took all the balls ive lost on my course, 90% of them would be on this bloody hole!

 

[DaveM]

The worst hole for me was the 5th at heaton park. Should have been easy really. But it had a raised tee about 30ft to the left of the fairway. Water and bog down the left, out of bounds 8ft off the fairway all down the right. The way the tee was set up in made you aim towards the oob's. So you often wound up aiming to far left and splash. In the end i use to take a 6 iron off the tee to make sure I did not reach either of them. Mind it is stroke index 2.

 

[NWJocko]

The worst hole for me was the 5th at heaton park. Should have been easy really. But it had a raised tee about 30ft to the left of the fairway. Water and bog down the left, out of bounds 8ft off the fairway all down the right. The way the tee was set up in made you aim towards the oob's. So you often wound up aiming to far left and splash. In the end i use to take a 6 iron off the tee to make sure I did not reach either of them. Mind it is stroke index 2.

Know the hole well, always end up with an "anything but right" swing with the driver and on the 7th fairway!

Really enjoy playing Heaton Park, played it 4 or 5 times and a great little course. A while since I've played it but the greens were always in great shape aswell.

On my course it's the 1st. Simple par 4 maybe 370 off the whites. Dogleg to the left near the green, the green sits at an angle to the fairway and a bunker right in front. I struggle to hit a fade so have to draw it over the bunker with mixed results. Have started playing for the lower tier of the green regardless of pin position but can be a difficult 2 putt from there (for me at least!)

Only ever birdied it once and normally walk off with a regulation bogey!

 

[patricks148]

Don't have one at Nairn but the 5th at Tain is def it for me.

175-185 off the whites to a raised green with deep pot bunkers left and right and anything short gathers into those. always miss left and right, and its stroke index 18 as well

 

[harvey4banger]

The 10th at Mill ride gets me everytime Par 5 525 from yellows 551 of the white, down hill all the way to the lake, then your shot choice is a 100 to 150 yard wedge lay up, of a 220 + yard wood from a down hill lie, to an up hill green with loads of crap on either side, hate it

 

[USER1999]

Either the annoying 125 yard par 5 9th, or the par 9 18th to finish with.

 

[Robobum]

The 9th at our place. A par 3 of 211yds, with an OOB wall running the length of the hole down the left hand side no more than 7yds from the left hand side of the green.
The prevailing winds are off the left so you are usually forced to flirt with a reload to get it on the green, especially with a long iron or a bit of timber in your hands. Usually results in the bail out right which either leaves a shot from sand or a tricky chip over the bunker onto a downslope. Par is hard earned if you miss this green right.

 

[thecraw]

not my course but the 2nd at Glasgow Golf club is a dog leg PAR 3

from the left tee there is an enormous old tree between you and the green, going over it would take a driver as its 241 from the whites, 230 from the yellows, so a long draw is really the only way to the green, 99% I'm sure play up and go for a chip and putt.

Any other dog leg par 3's out there?

Ahhh, Killermont Golf Club. Don't know what your getting your knickers in a twist for. Its easy, only played it once, nailed a 3 wood, slight draw to an inch, tap in birdie. Guys in front said it hit the flag, wedged between the cup and pin and popped out. They didn't know how it didn't drop. Thankful though as it would have been costly it was a work championship team event!