Hardest Par 3 Starting Hole

[Tommo21]

Winterfield in Dunbar, about 230 yards across the sea!

S&A is harder than Royal Lytham, green has bunkers and rough covered mounds all round it.

100%...........

 

[evahakool]

peacehaven ,its an absolute bugger of a hole.

Agree with that,played there a couple of times and it's not the easiest to start with.

 

[evahakool]

Not played many with a par 3 start but Falkirk Tryst was a difficult start.

 

[Smiffy]

Hardest I've played is at Homer's place.
Played it twice and yet to get the putter out.......1 quality blob and 1 chip in..

Yeah, but you're useless

 

[bobmac]

Yeah, but you're useless

At least he's got a proper handicap. :smirk:

 

[StrangelyBrown]

Winterfield in Dunbar, about 230 yards across the sea!

Fun, innit?

 

[Fyldewhite]

First at Royal Lytham..... Let's play it off the champ tees they said..... Cue 200+ yards into a relatively small green surrounded by bunkers.... There is also a nice bench where the locals sit and watch you tee off, just adds to the ambience!

Yep, probably the hardest I've played which isn't many.

Seem to remember one at Bradford?? (think the course has gone now). It was over 200 downhill and about SI 5. Our opponents on the day started with a 2 nett 0 for 5!

 

[Deleted member 17920]

First at Royal Lytham..... Let's play it off the champ tees they said..... Cue 200+ yards into a relatively small green surrounded by bunkers.... There is also a nice bench where the locals sit and watch you tee off, just adds to the ambience!

Easy par though isn't it if you get up and down from the bunker

 

[Vardon11LDN]

My home course is the Addington, we start on a 162 yard par 3, whilst not being that long it is uphill and definately not an easy start

 

[patricks148]

Ive not played many with a par 3 start, so has to be Boat of Garten, but i think they have made it easier in the last few years. nothing that tricky about it its just you are hitting 4 iron first up, which is never a good thing if you don't warm up

 

[Crazyface]

The first at Bala, North Wales has been described as the toughest par 3 in the world by some but more of a lottery for me. From what I remember it's like playing up the side of Snowdon and it you don't get it on the green it comes all the way back down.

Same at Church Stretton. We stood on the first trying to figure out where the first was. Luckilly a member came strolling over off the 18th, which I thought must have been 1st green, and he kindly pointed to the 1st. My response was unprintable (on here). I went for it. Lost ball.

 

[duncan mackie]

There's tricky, there's long, there's water and there's a lot of other trouble associated with par 3s....then there's the first at Merrick....in a class of its own IMO.

 

[Trini swinger]

Mullion's first in Cornwall. 199 yds of the pegs, normally into a stiff breeze coming of the sea, green that you can barely see, slopes away from you and to the right, apart from last 12 feet. Par always feels like a birdie.