Nemesis holes that always hinder your round!

[MendieGK]

This weekend i was cruising along, +1 through 13 holes and unlucky not to be a few under. Then i get to THAT hole! a short 143yd par 3 with no real danger except for bunkers around the green.

Its a 9 iron, nothing more, nothing less. I hit it good and end up just through the back, i end up walking off with a 5!

this may seem like just a small blip to the round, but this is a regular occurance, I birdie the short par 5 before it and then mess up this short par 3.

I just cant play that hole! Its in my head, i know its coming!

Iwondered if anyone else has a hole at their course that they just cant score on? DRIVES ME CRAZY!

 

[SyR]

Any dog leg right hole with trees on the right, they don't suit my natural draw/snap hook!

 

[HawkeyeMS]

The 1st. 229yd par 3. At the moment it seems to be a double bogey every week. I can't remember the last time I made par.

 

[dotty001]

any hole numbered between 1-18

 

[garyinderry]

there was a few at my old course that i would take a bogey at the tee and walk to the next hole. sometimes i might get up and down from laying up. if they are into the wind then it was just too much of a risk going for the green from so far out.

 

[dufferman]

Where I play regularly there is a regular length par 4, dog leg right about 100yards in, of which a rather large tree sits blocking the right hand corner. This means you either lay up and face a long 2nd shot in or hit a huge high drive to get over the tree - or a great left to right drive, but I can't do that!!

The 2nd shot faces a green which isn't too wide but long, and has bushed on the right, a drop to trees and shrubs left, and a bunker protecting the left edge. Tough shot if you're 120 yards away - if you layup from the tee you're nearer 200 yards away!

That always gets me and my regular lot - a double bogey 6 is a good score!

 

[Lump]

Very much the same atm. Made it to the turn on saturday at -1 gross. Did the usual stop at the half way hut for a chocolate bar and a flirt with the charming young lady behind the counter.
Stepped onto the 10th, a very short par3 at 115yrds... walked off with a 5!!. Killed my mindset and my whole round. Finished at +9 for the round! 1 par on the whole back 9. A happy chappy I was not.

Going to head upto the club this week and play the back 9 a few times to exercise the demons.

 

[Curls]

Tom Watson once said, "It takes courage to lay up on a par 3. But it might be the smartest play for the situation." Billy Casper won the 1959 U.S. Open at Winged Foot, and part of the credit goes to his ability to think outside the box on a tough par 3. At the 217-yard third hole, with a steeply sloping green framed by deep bunkers, Casper - to the bewilderment of his fellow competitors - laid up in front of the green all four rounds. He made par every time on his way to winning by a stroke over the late Bob Rosburg.

I know your par 3 isn't as treacherous as this one, but I guess what I'm saying is if you keep trying the same tactic over and over and getting the same result maybe trying something different (no matter how unlikely) might be worth a shot.

 

[road2ruin]

For me it's the 13th at ours.

396yrds Par 4. It's has a slight dogleg right with out of bounds running down the left and right making it a very tight tee shot especially if you take a driver. It then has a small dip about 30yrds short of the green which has a stream running along the bottom of it. It can be very easy to hit your second shot and get dragged into this area. The back of the green is also OOB.

I tend to play it as a Par 5 as I'd take that every time! Still manages to ruin a fair few of my cards regardless of how carefully/sensibly it's played.

 

[Birchy]

The 1st at my course is a par 3 161 yards with a steeply sloping green from back to front and surrounded by bunkers. Its tightly tree lined and green is very thin with a bunker even 30 yards short to make a lay up difficult. If you dont hit the green then your in trouble. Its killed many rounds before theyve even started.

 

[FairwayDodger]

18th at mine, sadly. Par 4 that plays longish due mainly to being uphill all the way. Fairly tight tee shot and you need a good, longish drive on the fairway to have much chance of hitting the green.

New season started on Saturday and the 18th started where it left off...... I'd just about salvaged my round from a poor start playing 9 through 17 in level par but could only manage a double bogey 6.

 

[Shanks McHookington]

11th at my place for me.
Dog Leg left, O.B all down the left side but if the wind is right the green can be driven.
Every week, my wind reading skills and course management let me down here...
Even when I just decide to lay up with a 6 iron I have been known to let it drift into the O.B
My playing partner now enjoys reminding me of my issue's with this hole on a weekly basis.
"Good Scorecard going...dont wreck it on the 11th now!"

 

[Bucket92]

Downhill par 3 4th, 232 yards from the white pegs to a small green with a large tree just to right of it, if your ball hits that tree it could go anywhere, I've parred it only once in recent memory, a nasty hole.

 

[GMAC88]

The last 4 at bellshill! Just bottle it, every time I've hot something good going, it's undone here!

 

[Shiny]

5th at mine, a par 3 of about 155 yards. All uphill with the green being much longer left to right (about 40 feet) than front to back (about 15 feet). Bunkers on the right and short, OOB on the left which you almost have to go over to get to the green. The back of the green is a severe slope up and away from the green that the ball would not even stick to if fired by a howitzer. Oh, forgot to add the joy of a stream between the bunkers and the green on two sides. Its a 9 hole course so this must be played twice as well.

Horrible.

 

[mcbroon]

17th, par 3, 203 yards into the prevailing wind, narrow green and two large bunkers either side. I parred it last time out for the first time in over a year. Usually, I make 5.

 

[Imurg]

This year it's been our 18th.
Best part of 430 yards and, for all this year so far, into the wind
Virtually unreachable in 2 so rely on a pitch'n'putt for a par which has failed more than it's suceeded.....

 

[gripitripit]

The 3rd par 3 at Wyboston Lakes. Only about 120 yards but with for some reason I normally find the wet stuff. The first 2 holes I (on a good day) par but end up dropping some on this hole and sometimes find it hard to recover.

 

[SaintHacker]

The 6th at my place. 180 yard par 3 forest down the left, ditch 20 yards in front, bunkers front left, trees to the right. Small bit of 'fairway' between ditch and front of green. Pin is always behind the bunker on a sunday. I'm more than happy to lay up on this one and try and get up and down, failing that going in the trees on the right isn't a disaster, anything else and you might as well go home...

 

[Wayman]

See a pattern here most people are saying par3

For me at second club it's the 11th always seem to knock a ball out of bounds right