Crazy Tee Positions

[Deleted member 21258]

After playing Nefyn in Wales and having to tee off from a Coast guards watch tower. Which I thought was fairly unusual.

Also Austin Lodge had a par 3 that the tee was miles above the green.

What other unusual tees have you come across on golf courses ?

 

[Dando]

I used to love playing Austin Lodge when it was open and that hole was good value. I would hit anything from a wedge to 3 wood depending on the wind.

 

[need_my_wedge]

After playing Nefyn in Wales and having to tee off from a Coast guards watch tower. Which I thought was fairly unusual.

Also Austin Lodge had a par 3 that the tee was miles above the green.

What other unusual tees have you come across on golf courses ?

I'd argue that there is a more crazy tee position at Nefyn on that back 9, notably the one with the completely blind tee shot to the fairway with the path full of walkers running through the fairway heading down to the pub. That is just plain insane.

Played at El Rompido in southern Spain the other week. Playing off the whites on I think the 7th hole (South Course), the white tee is about 30 odd yards right of the yellow tee, this means that your drive has to play directly over the OB directly in front of you. The OB runs all the way down the right side of the fairway, and there is a very large tree completely blocking your line and the line of sight from the tee over / through the OB to the fairway. It is just a complete guess, and totally crazy/ stupid.

 

[upsidedown]

At Dieppe you play off an old gun bunker , the 10th at Belmont was also massively downhill as the 7th? at the Wrekin.

 

[shortgame]

I think that one wins!

Only other ones I can think of are at places like Halesowen where you tee off over greens etc

 

[Roops]

I'd argue that there is a more crazy tee position at Nefyn on that back 9, notably the one with the completely blind tee shot to the fairway with the path full of walkers running through the fairway heading down to the pub. That is just plain insane.

Played at El Rompido in southern Spain the other week. Playing off the whites on I think the 7th hole (South Course), the white tee is about 30 odd yards right of the yellow tee, this means that your dive has to play directly over the OB directly in front of you. The OB runs all the way down the right side of teh fairway, and there is a very large tree completely blocking any line of sight from the tee over / through the OB to the fairway. It is just a complete guess, and totally crazy/ stupid.

At Nefyn, is that the one with the cliffs and sea on the right near the end of the round. I thought that was mental. You are going to aim left, right were the walking path is....... I liked Nefyn, but thought that hole was a shocker.

 

[rksquire]

The one this weekend at the Turkish Open from the top of the villa.

Tee boxes behind trees are the ones that get me - there's a par 5 at Gramacho(sp?) that if the tee markers are positioned to the right leave you teeing from behind mature trees about 20ft away! You're forced to go left - fine if you fade the ball - and even straight takes you to water along the left of the fairway. There's one like that at Armagh Golf Club as well - if you draw the ball, forget about it!

 

[NorwichBanana]

Hunstanton, par 3 and I believe it to be the 14th. Totally blind tee shot no sight of the green. Just aim at a marker post in the distance.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

I would say the 18th at Woodlands Manor. A par 3 from a tee box cut into a hill to a green below, for which a public single track road runs in front of it. Just seems nuts with the public road there.

 

[shortgame]

IIRC Machynlleth also has a hole where you tee off across a road

 

[Deleted member 18588]

The 5th at Kirby Muxloe is a 290 yard par 4 with the tee in a field about 90 yards from the rest of the course.

Until a couple of years ago only the teeing ground was in bounds but when hosting an England Golf event it was amended to include the approach to the tee (approx 12 yards wide) to be included

 

[Tongo]

The line from the 8th / 17th tee at Gosport and Stokes Bay goes across the high wire fence of neighbouring Fort Monkton (an MOD property). Not a shot to lose to the right!

Tis a reverse camber fairway as well.

 

[Pathetic Shark]

One of the par-3s at Prestwick where you play over a huge mound and aim at the one of the three targets on the hill based on a sign on the tee.

 

[Pathetic Shark]

Oh what the hell - the 10th at Horton Park in Epsom. It's about 60 yards too far back for the size of the island green.

 

[patricks148]

course not finished yet, but the new Torvean has a great big tree right in front of the back tee on the 2nd...

 

[Bazzatron]

I think that one wins!

Only other ones I can think of are at places like Halesowen where you tee off over greens etc

The 5th, nightmare hole for me.

 

[backwoodsman]

The 1st at Strathpeffer - I understand it to be the biggest drop between tee & green in the UK. Ok it's only a slope, but it feels like teeing off over a cliff.

 

[Capella]

I encountered a weird one at Bad Münstereifel earlier this year. It is a very hilly course and the 14th is a par 3 off a rather high and steep hill. That is not the crazy part, though. The crazy part is that you hit your tee shot on 14, then climb down the hill about a third of the way, then hit your tee shot for the 15th (also still from a relaitve high vantage point and a bit blind because there is a lot of brush and low trees you have to hit over to get to the fairway) and then you climb all the way down to play out hole 14 and afterwards you cross over to 15 and try to find your tee shot. It is pretty important that you do it that way, because otherwise you'd have to climb all the way back up to hit your tee shot on 15 and you would hold up play for everyone behind you. But it feels very weird to hit two of those hit and hope downhill tee shots in direct succession. Also, I played it in the height of summer, when the ground was so hard baked that you had very little control over where you ball would end up, even on a good shot. They just bounced and rolled down that hill like crazy.

You can find a picture of it here:
https://golfbadmuenstereifel.de/images/course/impression/plus/loch14a.jpg

(viewed from above the 14th ladies tee, 14th green to the right, tee 15 to the left, it looks a lot steeper and crazier from the backward tees)

 

[clubchamp98]

One of the par-3s at Prestwick where you play over a huge mound and aim at the one of the three targets on the hill based on a sign on the tee.

Is that the one with railway sleepers end on end in the hill?

What a course though the first tee is on the railway platform almost.

 

[clubchamp98]

I encountered a weird one at Bad Münstereifel earlier this year. It is a very hilly course and the 14th is a par 3 off a rather high and steep hill. That is not the crazy part, though. The crazy part is that you hit your tee shot on 14, then climb down the hill about a third of the way, then hit your tee shot for the 15th (also still from a relaitve high vantage point and a bit blind because there is a lot of brush and low trees you have to hit over to get to the fairway) and then you climb all the way down to play out hole 14 and afterwards you cross over to 15 and try to find your tee shot. It is pretty important that you do it that way, because otherwise you'd have to climb all the way back up to hit your tee shot on 15 and you would hold up play for everyone behind you. But it feels very weird to hit two of those hit and hope downhill tee shots in direct succession. Also, I played it in the height of summer, when the ground was so hard baked that you had very little control over where you ball would end up, even on a good shot. They just bounced and rolled down that hill like crazy.

You can find a picture of it here:
https://golfbadmuenstereifel.de/images/course/impression/plus/loch14a.jpg

(viewed from above the 14th ladies tee, 14th green to the right, tee 15 to the left, it looks a lot steeper and crazier from the backward tees)

That looks really nice.
Is that allowed in a comp?
We do it in the sweep at our place but not in the comps.