Daft Holes

Mold golf club in Wales (par 5).

You are in a dip, so most can't take a 3 wood or driver, as a cliff face is facing you about 120-150 yards away, so most play a rescue wood/5 wood at a marker post on the hill.

When on the hill there is another marker post to show the fairway at approx the 300-400 yard distance.

After your second there is a 3rd marker post for the green which is in a dip.

TBH it is a quirky hole, but not being able to take a driver on a par 5 would displease some, 3 marker posts on one hole, even more, and the green can't be seen for your 3rd shot most times.
 
GreiginFife said:
9th on Arndean course at Muckhart... Ladies tee is 60 yards further back than the gents casual.
195 yards for ladies, 135 for gents. (gents white tee is 205 so again, still not a huge improvement)
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That was unusual but at least it gave us a laugh and, as I said, I was glad we weren't playing for money.
 
14th at Hounslow Heath - no hitting over the corner of the dog-leg because of the pikey encampment there. Then again, that whole course is a sh*thole.

Most of the holes at Leatherhead where they have trees in the fairway, trees in the clubhouse and probably trees in the middle of the ladies' locker room.

And apparently there is this old course in Fife where you have to hit it over the corner of a hotel - ridiculous ....
 
For me I can deal with most things but its really only holes that have greens so sloped they should be made into two tiers, but are not!
 
Paul_Stewart said:
And apparently there is this old course in Fife where you have to hit it over the corner of a hotel - ridiculous ....
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You don't HAVE to hit it over the O of 'Hotel' but, when you have the opportunity, why wouldn't you!

There's another Chalk Pit, like the one at Temple, at West Herts but you get to check where pin is on the way down the previous hole and, like Temple, there's a marker post to indicate where pin is. Fun holes!
 
Region3 said:
I can't remember the hole number, but a par 5 at The Addington where anything over about 180yds off the tee takes a gamble of finishing in one of a few patches of heather in the middle of the fairway that you can't see from the tee.
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A good answer - definitely a daft hole
 
BLAM said:
I played the very short Tunbridge Wells golf Club on a society day a couple of weeks back and was perplexed by the "junction" box of shared fairways where two different groups ended up playing blind shots into the same area of the course (5th and 8th) at the same while the a third group stood on another (2nd) tee only a few yards away and well within range from both of the other tees.

Thinking back the 9th was also a 190 yard blind shot to a green with the 1st tee right next to it and again easily in reach of anything hit slightly left.
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In old home town, but only played it two or three times. Once worked out that there was one point (just beyond the 1st green I think) where you could in theory be hit by balls from about 4 or 5 different holes. And quite how many balls must go into the gardens of the houses flanking the 7th (I think) is beyond me. Definitely not a good place to leave the kids playing in the garden!
 
HomerJSimpson said:
This http://www.templegolfclub.co.uk/Course/holetenth.aspx Blind par 3 with a bunker you don't see and no idea where the flag is. Given the length means you are hitting a longish club in there as well. Mickey mouse
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Again agreed, although Mike liked this hole. Problem is, if you come up short you have virtually no chance of getting it inside 25ft with the next shot due to the slope from what I remember. Good short par 4 though!
 
FairwayDodger said:
Blind par 3s are just bonkers - what's the point?
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Would agree with that. Remember playing The Glen in North Berwick where they regard their blind par 3 13th as their signature hole and I thought it was pretty silly on two counts - 1) it would be much better visually if you could see what you were doing and 2) if you get down there and find your ball has gone long (which you wouldn't be able to see from the tee) but can't find it, you've got to trek all the way back up to the tee to play another
 
Foxholer said:
You don't HAVE to hit it over the O of 'Hotel' but, when you have the opportunity, why wouldn't you!
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Played that tee shot six times now and found the fairway five times. The other time I hit a 3-wood into the left rough because it was peeing down and I was just trying to hang on to the club. It's not actually that hard a shot from the regular tees. From the new pro tee over the road, it's a real mother.
 
You have to be confident to play the driveable short par four 1st at Puttenham in Surrey.
You play sharply uphill over a disused sand pit to find a huge oak tree that is just about carryable. Trees and heather to the left and the village bowling green and graveyard to the right.

St Neots has a crazy right angle dog leg, 6 iron off the tee towards a large field then a 3 wood to the green.

The old course at New Forrest has a cracking blind par three. First time I played it I took good advice from a friend and hit a perfect two iron. Popped over the hill to see my ball 6 feet from the pin, ten yards from the stream at the back of the green and 5 feet away from a ruddy big pony.
 
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