bobmac
Major Champion
Given the choice, would you like the last hole at your home course to be tough or easy?
How would you like your 18th?
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Doc
Head Pro
Tough, a proper card wrecker par 5 about SI4 and certainly not a par 3.
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HickoryShaft
Tour Rookie
Birdie opportunity for the good players, nett birdie for the likes of me - ie easy hole 
Gives you a risk / reward type hole for finishing off a round - more drama at the end and a real chance to make a difference in a matchplay or comp.
Gives you a risk / reward type hole for finishing off a round - more drama at the end and a real chance to make a difference in a matchplay or comp.
JustOne
Ryder Cup Winner
Something with a 240yrd carry to keep the duffers at bay.
StrangelyBrown
Tour Winner
Exactly like ours is, a fair test.
300ish yards, par 4, well bunkered fairway, well bunkered green, oob long, trees left and right of the fairway. The last two times I've played it i've made a 6 and a 3, so it rewards good shots and punishes poor ones.
300ish yards, par 4, well bunkered fairway, well bunkered green, oob long, trees left and right of the fairway. The last two times I've played it i've made a 6 and a 3, so it rewards good shots and punishes poor ones.
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
Keep it as it is, a risk/reward dog leg par 5.
Get a good drive away, and it is reachable in two (although with a back left pin, par can still be a good score), get a mediocre drive away, bogey is a good score, muff up the drive, and you can get a 9 very easily.
Stroke index 6, so no push over.
Get a good drive away, and it is reachable in two (although with a back left pin, par can still be a good score), get a mediocre drive away, bogey is a good score, muff up the drive, and you can get a 9 very easily.
Stroke index 6, so no push over.
SirSliceAlot
Club Champion
I like the 18th at the Forest of Arden, very intimidating 200+ yard par 3 over water. Sorts the men out from the boys!
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
Hate finishing on a par 3.
DaveM
Tour Winner
Nearer to the 19th?
CallawayKid
Q-School Graduate
St Pierre's 18th is fantastic! Although a par 3 it is over 200 yards and over water with a well bunkered green.
Ours is a short par 4 (Drivable with wind behind), OOB left and long and a few bunkers up the left. Think I prefer St. Pierre's!!
CK
Ours is a short par 4 (Drivable with wind behind), OOB left and long and a few bunkers up the left. Think I prefer St. Pierre's!!
CK
ADB
Journeyman Pro
Never liked a Par 3 to finish - albeit it gives something to keep you interested until the end if you are in the 2's club.
Give me a Par 5 where there is adequate risk and reward - I loved the 18th at Wentworth West pre the recent changes. Fantastic finishing hole.
Give me a Par 5 where there is adequate risk and reward - I loved the 18th at Wentworth West pre the recent changes. Fantastic finishing hole.
bladeplayer
Money List Winner
aaaaaaaagh .. Playing there on the 13th oct , sounds a tough finisher , i think risk & reward is a good finishing hole ,2 great shots get you your eagle putt, 2 good ones sets up a chip for a birdie chance, but very bogeyable or worse also
User 105
Journeyman Pro
I'd probably like ours a bit tougher.
It's SI18, although it's definitely not the easiest hole on the course.
360y Par4, Straight with OOB down the right, although it's up a bank so you have to hit a shocker to go out. One fairway bunker up the right at about 200 yards to catch any wayward teeshots. Only a few small trees. No real rough to speak of.
It has a long green, so three putts are easily possible, has bunkers left, right and at the back.
It usually plays into the wind and if they stick the flag at the back it probably plays more like 400-430. Wind behind, which is rare, and the green is drivable.
I'd probably like a bit more trouble up the left as you can just bail out over there and take OOB and the bunker out of play and still get a good line into the green anyway.
It's SI18, although it's definitely not the easiest hole on the course.
360y Par4, Straight with OOB down the right, although it's up a bank so you have to hit a shocker to go out. One fairway bunker up the right at about 200 yards to catch any wayward teeshots. Only a few small trees. No real rough to speak of.
It has a long green, so three putts are easily possible, has bunkers left, right and at the back.
It usually plays into the wind and if they stick the flag at the back it probably plays more like 400-430. Wind behind, which is rare, and the green is drivable.
I'd probably like a bit more trouble up the left as you can just bail out over there and take OOB and the bunker out of play and still get a good line into the green anyway.
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
Something with a lot of trees tight down the right hand side. Keep the stack 'n tilters at bay.
FaldosJumper
Challenge Tour Pro
I'd keep mine the way it is. Par 5, certainly birdyable but OB all the way down the right, copses of trees to the left. A perfect driver off the tee will give a ball below the feet lie for your second any thing less than perfect a blind shot over a mound and longish 3rd... All in all a good finish!
Aztecs27
Money List Winner
Ours is a nice long par 5, up hill and usually into the wind. Ditch at around 280-290 yards, and very slight dogleg left with a green protected well by bunkers.
Not my favourite hole, I have to say, but I wouldn't change it.
I do love the par 3 18th at St. Pierre though! over 200 yards and far from being an easy hole!
Not my favourite hole, I have to say, but I wouldn't change it.
I do love the par 3 18th at St. Pierre though! over 200 yards and far from being an easy hole!
thegogg
Head Pro
Ours is an uphill 168 yd par 3 over a ditch with a slopping mackenzie green from back to front so if your above the pin in summer your in big trouble trying to keep the ball on the green! It can be anything from a 7 iron to a 3 rescue dependant on the wind direction and can be a real card wrecker 
bernix
Challenge Tour Pro
Ours is the perfect finishing hole. A short, reachable par 5. You have to take a decision on your tee shot. Take the direct route, the short narrow left fairway, or the long route to the right where reaching the green in two is almost impossible. If you go for the green you'd better get it right because on the right of the green there is a lake and on the left deep bunkers. Long isn't good either because that leaves you with a difficult chip back from the rough onto a raised green that falls from back to front.
richart
Major Champion
Happy with our 18th, par four 400 yards uphill, OB left and long around the green, and a small drop off the right.
chris661
Money List Winner
Ours is a par 4 about 400 yards or so needing a decent drive to get over the covered walkway then leaving a tough shot to the green that is all carry as there is a stream running in front of it. Decent enough par chance if you get a good drive away but easy to make six, even from the middle of the fairway.
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