Courses with 'silly' holes

[North Mimms]

http://www.chilternforest.co.uk/8th.htm

Par 3, tee off (probably with a hyrbid or wood despite the short distance) across another fairway, up a gigantic hill to a green you can't see.

And The Badger is no better from the ladies tee...
you don't need to cross someone else's fairway, as the tee is half way up the gigantic hill.
It's like trying to hit over a 20 ft wall 8 feet in front of you

 

[monktonhallgc1882]

http://www.chilternforest.co.uk/8th.htm

Par 3, tee off (probably with a hyrbid or wood despite the short distance) across another fairway, up a gigantic hill to a green you can't see.

Ladies tee 58 yards LOL

 

[North Mimms]

Ladies tee 58 yards LOL

see my post above!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Spot on - that hole is a bloody joke. If they shortened it to 120-130 yards, it would be a fantastic short signature hole. As it is, everyone there lays up. Then again, the whole course is crap and just a bunch of cow fields put together.

It would give Lydd a run. It is a shocker. Not been there for donkeys but it use to start with a short par 3 and you knew it was going to be a fun round when the group in front too 5 to reach the green

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Absoutely nothing can beat the 18th hole at Girvan.
Blind tee shot over a clump of 60 foot high trees that are about 30 yards in front of an elevated tee.
Plays from 9 iron to 6 iron.
The hole before is a bit of a shocker too.

16the at North Berwick West because of it's daft double green with a 6 foot swale in the middle of two elevated 30sqm putting surfaces.

 

[wrighty1874]

13th hole at Hellidon Lakes, par 3, not even a full sand wedge.

 

[Val]

1st at Craigmillar Park.

16th at my course.

1st at Erskine

11th at Largs

Every hole at Port Bannatyne

Every hole at Blairmore & Strone

And the 15th at yours, really odd hole. I don't fancy that 16th of yours with a score going. Dreadful hole.

 

[SyR]

The 18th at Dibden Golf Centre is the most pointless hole I've played. It's like they've run out of space. It's a 306 yard par 4 with the tee up high so plays short. You play down to a fairway that slopes left to right with no chance to hold so you end up in the right rough. You then have to chip up a huge hill to a narrow green that has the clubhouse directly behind. I normally just try blast one over the trees to the green from the tee as I find the hole futile.. (even if I end up in the woods).

 

[thecraw]

And the 15th at yours, really odd hole. I don't fancy that 16th of yours with a score going. Dreadful hole.

Behave yourself, the 15th is a cracking hole. The 16th just requires bottle.

 

[viscount17]

Luton Hoo - that's the 13th, and the big tree is on the left, mound and smaller tree front right and lots of cabbage further right - I know, I've been in or behind all of them

Brampton - really don't like that 16th. it's not that long but it's a 90 deg dog-leg left, and you have to be well up to sight the green

Stockwood Park, Luton - 18th - really stupid hole. tee is crammed up against the hedge round the driving range; tee shot is straight ahead but you have to get the distance right (no help in the stroke saver) as you have to turn almost back on yourself for the second, and very narrow lines between the trees too.

Oundle, nr Peterboro' has to take the prizes - 2nd tee is elevated and plays over the approach to the 14th green but you also have the 11th tee on your left playing up the fairway it shares with the 14th. 9th nice downhill par 3 - or would be except it shares the green with the 16th, the 17th tee is right behind the green (and I mean right behind) with the 10th tee directly in line with that. 12th and 13th also share a fairway played in opposite directions. add in a couple of completely blind tees and I won't be going back.

 

[Gazboy]

Quite a few holes at Hazelmere are just an utter mystery, the 9th and 18th may as well be on the club house patio. It looks fairly straight forward on google earth to plot your way around the course but when you are in a four ball and never played before every other question is "where's the pin?" "which pin? I can see two!" "where's the next tee?" In the end we loaded HGC onto a range finder phone app just to use as a map, then all became clear. I'm sure now we've seen it we would laugh at ourselves.

 

[srixon 1]

The second at Bridgenorth, whatever you hit off the tee the ball ends up in virtually the same place on the fairway. And the 18th at the same course, completely blind second shot to the last hole is a joke.

 

[spawn_ukuk]

Just the 1 hole at my local course
Par 3, 175 yards Slight uphill you can just see the top of the flag
Problem is its Tiny green with slopes so much from left to right,
Out of the hundreds of times ive played the hole ive hit the green 3 or 4 times

 

[Bratty]

The 13th at Silverdale is "silly" but in a good way. In fact, it's a quirky course, and I don't think quirky = silly.

If the 14th at West Malling was like this, then it would be a great hole. But it's not. It's cack! {Can you tell I've never played the 14th well?}

 

[Fader]

14th Hole, on the Spitfire course at West Malling. Played it for the first time recently in a jolly boys away day. Tee shot not a problem downhill to a pretty wide fairway. Approach shot up a hill that make the eiger look like a speed bump to a flag you can't see over an old oak tree that almost points you in the wrong direction. Not aided by the fact the 14th green sits beside the 17th green. The amount of us that played to the wrong green as it was the only one we could see from the fairway was a joke

Edit, other than that absolutely loved the course and layout.

 

[Bratty]

14th Hole, on the Spitfire course at West Malling.

Glad it's not just me!!!

 

[dufferman]

That place used to be a great course. Then they destroyed three of the best holes, 1st, 9th and 18th, to make a dreadful driving range and ruined it. And that 10th hole is just pathetic. The only thing missing are a bunch of pikeys with their caravans on the "fairway".

Agreed!

 

[Fader]

Glad it's not just me!!!

Glad i've found a kindred spirit on that one, as even the guys I played with said it wasn't all that bad. I made a failry respectable bogey on the hole but even just thinking about it, I don't get the point of that hole at all.

 

[RGDave]

The second at Bridgenorth

As in "Bridgnorth", Shropshire.

If you think that's mad, try Church Stretton.

or the last 2 holes at mine.

Bonkers, plain insanity.

 

[Yer Maw]

Burntisland has 2 daft ones. A Par 4 with a blind uphill drive to a plateau, then blind second seriously downhill to a bucket green with a run-off at the back to a wall!! Then the 17th a Par 3 where you can only just see the top of the flag to another bucket green. The rest are very good and still like playing there.
Forrester park has some poor holes with massive valleys in them but it is still a good challenging course.