Daft Holes

[thecraw]

Blind par 3s are just bonkers - what's the point?

Go over to Shiskine on the Isle of Arran and you'll change your mind about blind par 3's. They are simply magnificent and such good fun you'll want to go back out and play again.

If you don't like blind par 3's don't come to my course and play our 16th. Dr Ray, aka Bunkers very kindly described it as the "marmite hole".


:rofl:

 

[FairwayDodger]

In fairness, blind par 3s (and holes with any blind shots for that matter) grow on you the more you play them.

I hate turning up on a course for the first time and having to basically guess what sort of shot I'm playing but when you've played them a few times you do get to know the layout even if you can't actually see it from the tee.

Thinking about it there's a blind par 3 at New Galloway, where I played a lot when I was younger, that's a lot of fun. Very short and with the green a long way below the tee with a small green. If you overhit you're in trouble but come down short and it's liable to hit the down slope and bounce through.

 

[Shiny]

We have a hole like that on Willow Valley near us. Its a par 5 but you can only hit a mid iron off the tee as the hole doglegs right. You cannot cut the corner as water then becomes involved. It gets a lot of moaning from most people who have played it.

 

[beggsy]

3rd hole par5 hit a 7 iron off tee to dog leg right then hit 8 iron straight to a 90 degree left then pw to green trees too height to even try cutting any corner it's a joke and it's at willow valley gc

 

[FairwayDodger]

3rd hole par5 hit a 7 iron off tee to dog leg right then hit 8 iron straight to a 90 degree left then pw to green trees too height to even try cutting any corner it's a joke and it's at willow valley gc

That might be the winner!

 

[Dodger]

The 6th at Bamburgh.An uphill 224 yard par 3 that has a windmill as a pin and a clowns mooth to putt through.

It wins this contest hands down.

 

[Shiny]

That might be the winner!

Thats the one I was trying to describe, I knew a Yorkshire golfer would be along soon to mention it.

 

[North Mimms]

Not keen on 15th at Grims Dyke
205 yds from red tees up a big old slope, it's 190 to front of green which then proceeds to slope wildly all over the place.

 

[GreiginFife]

6th hole Lyndoch course at Murrayshall. 96yards from the yellows and it's all uphill, when I say hill I mean mountain. It's almost 45 degrees uphill to a green you can't see and a pin that's "up there somewhere". You miss the green short and likelihood is that you will roll back further than where you started.

 

[North Mimms]

Sounds like The Badger at Chlitern Forest.
Ladies tee 58 yards! But there is a sheer wall of a bank about 5 yards in front of tee so it's like playing over a wall.
Mens no better... 160 yards, with another hole's fairway crossing on front of you, then up this daft wall at the end.
Several fairways cross on other holes which is bonkers.

That said, it's a lovely course with some beautiful views.

 

[DaveM]

I can think of 2 holes. 1 is the 18 at Aston-under-lyne. It really is cardiac hill. The fairway must slope nearly 45* upwards from the tee, for 200yrds. If you don't get the ball up there. It can and does roll back to your feet. The most stupid hole I have ever seen. The other is a blind par3 at Heaton park. Its more or less 200yrds, depending on which tee. Just before the green it drops 50/60 foot straight down. OOB right at the back of the green. You have to hit the ball to land short at the top and hope it just rolls slowly over the top to stand any chance, of getting it on the green.

 

[marinemac]

I am at a loss as to why on our course the winter tee for the 18th is behind all other tees how's that for daft?