Most Bizarre course you've played

Think it has to be the Whinhill, on top of the hill behind Greenock bordering a very rough council estate. Few blind tee shots where you drive over a hill and you don't see your ball again until some kid comes up to you with a carrier bag full of balls and tries to sell it back to you. They usually have a pretty ugly minder with them as well :mad:
 
dewsweeper said:
Nefyn for me,only played it once .The penisular stretch is great to look at but on a sunny summer day you are playing a hole or two with locals marching next to you on the path to the beach!
Nice to play once .
Seascale also a little odd playing out towards the nuclear power station,dominates the scenery.
Dewsweeper
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Nefyn for me as well - flamin mental in parts! Especially when parents stop their kids to "watch the nice golfer man" not realising that your waving at them to move as you're about to hit a very hard little white ball in their general direction.
 
I wouldn't put nefyn down as weird as a course but very odd with people just wandering about. One of my favs.

Played bulwell forest, small and compact. A shared fairway, inside a housing estate. Felt like playing in a hard hat! Bloody balls landing near you all the time!
 
Played Alhurin when it must have just opened about 16 years ago and hated it, tighter than 2 coats of paint in parts, considering Seve was the designer i think it was a bit unfair as he was one for spraying it about.
 
Lyndoch course at Murrayshall. Effectively a giant 18 hole crazy golf course. Two par 3s up steep (and I mean STEEP) hills, not slopes, full on hills. You wind your way up the hill to the 15th and then you are back down in one very big drop.
A few raised and banked fairways that dogleg meaning going off the side results in being 20 feet down a steep bank.

Bonkers but I actually quite enjoyed it because it was so crazy.
 
Not so much a course, but bizarre holes:-

Aintree 9 holer - you play over "Beecher's brook" inside the grand national course.

Pleasington - 7th - Par 5 into a "chute" of a fairway that takes the ball to the fairway that is 80 foot lower. A driver can overshoot the chute, a hybrid can mean you don't make it.

Moffat - a par 3 well above your head, be careful when taking your 7 iron that the RAF don't deflect it whilst they come down the valley.

Mold - a par 5 with a 70 foot cliff, 50 yard in front of you meaning you cant go with a driver. 3 marker posts on the hole. One on the cliff, one more on the fairway, one more to show where the green is in the dip.

I also fancy Church Stretton.
 
Villa golf near Tunbridge Wells - it's a 9 holer built in a farmer's field. Very short but has a couple of truly bizarre holes - one in particular has a raised green with trees in front of it, but it's only 250 yards...

Austin Lodge was a strange course. Enjoyable but a lot of quirky holes. I think I liked some of the scenery more than the course! It's gone now, a shame but equally I'm not sure I'd have gone back in the future anyway.
 
dewsweeper said:
Nefyn for me,only played it once .The penisular stretch is great to look at but on a sunny summer day you are playing a hole or two with locals marching next to you on the path to the beach!
Nice to play once .
Seascale also a little odd playing out towards the nuclear power station,dominates the scenery.
Dewsweeper
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Nefyn includes rocky outcrops as obstructions (can't remember if they are integral parts of the course or immovable obstructions), but is otherwise a rather nice cliff-top course. :)
 
Strathpeffer a bit topside of Inverness. The first hole is (I believe) the par 4 with the longest drop in UK between tee and green. Then after that, it gets hilly. Nice countryside, barmy course.
 
dewsweeper said:
Nefyn for me,only played it once .The penisular stretch is great to look at but on a sunny summer day you are playing a hole or two with locals marching next to you on the path to the beach!
Nice to play once .
Seascale also a little odd playing out towards the nuclear power station,dominates the scenery.
Dewsweeper
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I'll go with Nefyn too. A lovely scenic course with some stunning cliff top drives and views, but I think bizarre describes the decision to allow people and cars to wander through the back nine on the peninsular on such a grande scale. If not bizarre, downright scary, can't remember which number hole, but I think it was the second hole heading out on the peninsular, a blind drive, and a second blind shot into the green with the path running parallel to the hole before cutting 90 degrees right across the front of the green. I was way too scared to hit the drive, let alone the second shot to the green with hundreds of people trundling backwards and forwards in front. The cars going to the pub and back too, can't see them on the blind shots.....
 
Ramsey in Cambridgeshire has some quirky holes especially the 18th but my nomination is Shishkine on the isle of Arran. There's a par 3 where you have to aim your tee shot at a cliff, if you aim at the green the wind will take your ball about 100 yards left of it. Then there's a ridiculous par 3 where you can't see the green, let alone the pin. You wait for a railway signal to tell you the green is clear then you tee off over a hill and hope you've got the line and length vaguely correct. I was told that many of the lady members use a putter to set the ball off down the adjacent footpath leaving themselves a chip onto the green. Bonkers hole which is only missing a windmill.
 
Liverbirdie said:
Moffat - a par 3 well above your head, be careful when taking your 7 iron that the RAF don't deflect it whilst they come down the valley.

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Yep played it and gosh it is mental. had strong headwind and went for hybrid only for it to bounce of the green and roll right back down the hill again grrrrrrr :) Think I scored a 5 at least maybe more lol
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