Courses with 'silly' holes

[spongebob59]

Austin Lodge has what I describe as some 'Silly holes'

Namely
4th- Hitting into long but narrow green with a long iron ?
5th - Anything right of fairway rolls into a fence
6th -Anything of fairway rolls down a hill.
7th - Downhill par 3, if you don't make the gap your stuffed, can you ever hold the green if you hit it ?
11th - Blind uphill par 3, narrow target, miss left and you're stuffed.
12th - Never managed to hold the fairway, always runs down to the path on the right.
17th - Long and boring
18th - Tiger line over left hand hill but a blind shot, anything right rolls down into the rough.

Only the 16th is a memorable hole on this course.

There are also 2 at Westerham but I can't remember the numbers at the mo.

Any others you'd like to name and shame ?

 

[USER1999]

Sandy Lodge. Short par 3, about 70 yards. Green slopes hugely, left to right. Almost impossible to hold the ball on. Good 17 hole course, loads of land, why could they not have found space for one more proper golf hole?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Castle Stuart - you get away with murder off the tee. After all - we don't want all those visitors paying all that money coming away having had a mare of a round. Much better if they can play to, or better than, their handicap so they can big up to their mates about it (I'm only joking - kind of...)

 

[Twire]

Oakhampton, the 12th is a 98 yard par 3 but the green is about 30-40 yards below the tee, even a 56 wedge off the tee can be to much. With OOB and a river behind, it's a bit of a Micky Mouse hole.

 

[upsidedown]

Oakhampton, the 12th is a 98 yard par 3 but the green is about 30-40 yards below the tee, even a 56 wedge off the tee can be to much. With OOB and a river behind, it's a bit of a Micky Mouse hole.

Remember playing that one in the foursomes comp it shares with Crediton. Not a good day as had just told my brother I was emigrating and he had a right old huff on him.

 

[Neil20]

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.

 

[spongebob59]

The two @ Westerham are the 6th and 17th.
Driving into two longish par 4's that dogleg and the camber in the fairway goes the other way !!!

 

[Deleted member 1418]

The 5th at my place - Bushey Hall. Quite possibly the most idiotic par 5 you will ever play. Here's the pro's description of it

http://www.busheyhallgolfclub.co.uk/tour/hole5.htm

Don't be fooled by the 'small' pond and bunkers pictures - they cover the entire width of the fairway and there is no room left or right of them. And there is also an 8ft high mound beyond the pond! The tee is now more to the right, right up against the tree line so you have a semi-blind tee shot to find the fairway. If you can carry your driver at least 280 with 30-40 yards of slice then you might have a chance of clearing bunkers, pond and mound!

 

[PhilTheFragger]

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.

Agree with this one, The hill is massive also when you get to the top its a call through hole, Thats fair enough, but the 9th hole tees off over the 8th green, so you have balls coming at you from 2 directions.

Another course with a funny hole is Temple. near Marlow Bucks. The 10th, another par 3 and long at 235 yards, the green is in a big hole, so flag position is a lottery and there is a bunker in it, its a hit and hope hole, same as chiltern Forest

Fragger

 

[patricks148]

Castle Stuart - you get away with murder off the tee. After all - we don't want all those visitors paying all that money coming away having had a mare of a round. Much better if they can play to, or better than, their handicap so they can big up to their mates about it (I'm only joking - kind of...)

Don't agree in the slightest.

I've been playing the course a fair bit lately and though some are on the wide side if you miss the fairways on a few holes you are still in trouble esp off the back tee's.

 

[Matty]

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.

Blackburn has a hole a little like this. The 16th, you can see the top of the flag from the tee and there are bunkers front and left with a bank at the back. Better to play long that short provided it's not too wet and you get a plugged ball in that banking!!

 

[GreiginFife]

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.

6th on the Lyndoch course at Murrayshall in Perth. Similar 96 yards off the yellows up a hill about 100ft to a green that can't be seen (nor the pin) and clag down either side so wild I think there might be pygmy tribe villages in there.

 

[Dodger]

That par 5 at Murrayshall that you hit 8 iron off...........stop the thread we have a winner.

Then again there is the 6th at the Bamburgh.

 

[duncan mackie]

The two @ Westerham are the 6th and 17th.
Driving into two longish par 4's that dogleg and the camber in the fairway goes the other way !!!

whilst not a huge fan of these 2, or the 7th, I feel they are appropriate risk reward holes in most conditions. However, when the ground is 'hard & bouncy' they just become silly.

however, they are not alone in that and there are many holes that fall into that category (Crowborough has a few and you have listed some at AL too.

 

[joma1108]

What about two holes back to back
Carluke golf course
11th hole, you walk from the 10th Green to the tee box and say...wheres the hole as there is nothing but a sheer drop in front, go tentatively to the edge and there is the hole around 100 feet below you and only around 120 yards away, junk all in the front and the green feeds away from you cant go long, cant go short and bunkers the ball will plug, land on the green and it might hold....bonkers

then after you get past that you go to the 11th and if you thought that was bonkers
Elevated tee to the same elevation as the green which is 238 yards away... the kicker is it is all carry over a ravine around yes you guessed it 100 feet ABOVE you and if you go short and it sticks on the hill then you need a mountain goat to help you, locals play a 6 iron and a wedge, when i played i took driver and shot through the green and nearly out of bounds.

i played a provisional as we didnt see where the first ball went and GPS said i was 18 yards from the hole i needed an 8 iron to get up

two holes totally bonkers...would i play them again...absolutely although they are crazy they just draw you back in.

 

[JustOne]

Only ever played 1 course that doesn't have a rubbish hole on it - East Sussex National (East Course).

Would be far more interesting to find courses that DON'T have silly holes and that actually might be worth playing.

 

[Khamelion]

Rather than pick a specific hole, I'll just generalise with any hole that has the green adjacent to the plate glass windows of the club house, or is adjacent to the car park.

 

[Bratty]

The two @ Westerham are the 6th and 17th.
Driving into two longish par 4's that dogleg and the camber in the fairway goes the other way !!!

Have to disagree with you, mate. Frustrating, yes. Testing, yes. But not silly. However, in the height of summer (haha) you can be really unlucky with the bounces even on a perfect drive, but still not sure they're "silly".

The most ridiculous hole in Kent is 14th on the Spitfire at West Malling. Ditch about 180 yards away, thick rough either side of a 15 yard-wide fairway. Massive tree on left about 220 distance, massive tree on right about 260 distance. If you hit a good drive down the very middle, you then have a huge slope to get up - it's got to be 50 foot minimum to a green with bunkers, bumps and hollows surrounding it.

 

[6inchcup]

stupid par6 at CHIRK not a bad track but pray the wind is blowing the stench from the timber factory away from the course.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Anyone played Painswick (in the Cotswolds). A brillant but crazy little track perched high on the hills on common land - but you've got to get up there first. And so the first four holes are mountain goat stuff - and then you reach the par 3 fifth. All of 114yds off the whites; not far you think until you stand on the tee and you look way up the hill in front of you and realise the green is up there somewhere - completely out of site. So here is the view from above and behind the green - yes - you are seeing the tops of very tall trees that are down by the tee.

http://www.painswickgolf.com/pgc_05_025.htm

If you are in the vicinity you just must play it - just for the experience - a bit like playing Shiskine in Arran. Describing these little courses as memorable is a bit of an understatement.