How would you like your 18th?

[elliottlale]

http://www.bathgolfclub.org.uk/hole.php?hole=18

theres mine! usually a 6, sometimes a 5, never (for me!!) a 4!! normally into the wind and elevated tee, with fairway sloping down.trees to the right, thick rough and trees to the left, bunkers in middle of the fairway, sloping green.....its a toughie. SI6

 

[slugger]

elliottlale, that course looks lovely!

I'd like the last hole to be a challenge... most holes are a challenge anyway and the feeling of playing that last hole well can give you tonnes of confidence to take into the next round.

 

[Hobbit]

We have a 500yds par 5, definite risk and reward hole with a tight run into the green. Usually downwind.

 

[Imurg]

Fairly tough 420-odd yard par 4 SI 6. Although it can play downwind it's around the green that things get tricky. Assuming you get a good drive away you could still have a longish shot to the green that slopes back to front. There are hollows and hillocks all around the green so if you're not straight you could be in trouble. Make the green and you could still be faced with a 20 yard putt.
I like it. I generally par it for 3 points. I'd like to keep it please.

 

[Junior]

This is ours, nice elevated tee shot and lots of choices.

http://www.lymm-golf-club.co.uk/course/hole18.htm

You can lay up between the two water hazards with a 6i or 5i and make it a genuine 3 shotter, but that brings into play the narrowing fairway and fairway bunker for your 2nd. Or a good drive and 3 wood/rescue will give you a chance of a birdie. Thats if the pin isnt tucked behind the front bunker, which for medals is often the case !! Hook your drive and its a gonner, slice and get out of position and par is tough to make.

 

[timchump]

burnham and berrow has to have one of the best card wreckings 18th's
a 440 yard dog leg par 4 over a cluster of dunes

 

[Mr_T]

My perfect finishing hole would be a short drivable par 4 about 260-270 yards with risk/reward very much the theme, the green would have a lake to the right and bunkers to the left, so you could either go for the green in one but face the consequences if you get it wrong, or lay up to give you an easy approach shot (assuming you don't duff it!) oh and OB down the right of the fairway thrown in for good measure

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Ours is a par 5 usually into the wind with a pond eating into the front right of the green. Not really reachable for me as there's a ditch around 260 yards from the tee which I can just about roll into without any breeze but certainly can't clear. Get a good drive and second away and its only a short iron in but into the wind you can hit two good shots and still have 150+ yards left. Not a huge challenge for the real big hitters but for the likes of me needing par to win or at best get a cut it can be a squeaky bum hole.

I'd prefer a reasonable challenge as opposed to an easy closer. It makes you work for your score all the way. I thought the 18th at St Pierre was a doddle. Neck a 3 wood 40 yards short and right, wait for the GM editorial staff and cameraman to assemble and pitch it to a foot for a tap in par. The 18th at the Forest of Arden on the other hand sounds a bit more of a brute

 

[sev112]

ours is 437 off whites
slight dog leg right, OB right, rough and quarry on left
275 down to ditch and pond
so if you can hit a 250yd fade, (or a draw above the shrubs and along the OoB line, and you still have 185 yards uphill to go from off a downhill lie, to a flat green with OoB through the back and to the left

Dont see many Pars, and Birdie is an EXTREMELY rare beast.

But the lower handicappers love it if there's match on the line because there are a lot of 6 7 8 9 and 10s racked up


For the ladies its a Par 5, but its just as hard for them as they generally cant get over teh pond/ditch in 2 leaving them, the 180 yd uphill for their third

 

[PPE]

Plenty of booze and women! But as I passed 18 21yrs ago I was perfectly happy with the way it went thanks!



Ah, just read OP, wellllll ours has everything, almost:-
*Exposed to wind
*Fairway and greenside bunkers
*Water
*OOB down left

 

[TonyN]

My last course was a decent finish. Par 4, up hill, tight tee shot, tight fairway. High tree's all down the left, usually blocked out right, BUT... Reachable or there about with the driver. Real risk reward.

What makes it better is the 2 tier McKenzie green. 2 putt ANYWHERE on that, and you have done well.

It's not mighty hard, but a par feels good. Birdie feels real good.

 

[chrisd]

For us, a slightly uphill par 3, 194 yards, bunkers front, left, right and back with OOB all round the back of the hole.

Can be a card wrecker


Chris