Nemesis holes that always hinder your round!

[cookelad]

2nd at Shooters there's basically no miss with your approach and I just can't seem to hit the damn thing! The green is about 15ft+ below the 2nd shot and it drops away long-left, long and right, it's annoying as it's probably the flattest green on the course so if you hit it chances are its a par at worst!

 

[Region3]

My therapist says I shouldn't talk about it any more.

 

[CMAC]

18th at my old place.

3 medals in a row was standing on the par 5 18th tee at +1, level and +3

shot an 11, a 12 and a 9

partners all said if they see me take driver next time they will break it.........but wheres the fun

 

[AllyLodge]

4th at my club atm. 455 par 4 but usually plays around 420. the first 240 yards is all downhill to a river, so it's always a lay up. this usually leaves a 200 yard second shot (assuming you've hit the fairway !). i just play it as a par 5, but may start trying to drive over the river in the summer.

also the 7th is one that i can never do well on. 150 yard par 3, relatively simple, and it's the hole i play the most as it's 300 yards from my house. but it's being played off an artificial tee at the moment, and for some reason i always choose the wrong club !

 

[mcbroon]

18th at my old place.

3 medals in a row was standing on the par 5 18th tee at +1, level and +3

shot an 11, a 12 and a 9

partners all said if they see me take driver next time they will break it.........but wheres the fun

That's the spirit DV :thup:

At mine, the trouble is left, right and long, and the pin is usually up the back. The safe shot is to play for the large landing area short of the green and try to get up and down. Even a chip and 2 putts from there would be better than my normal score but I always try and rip a 5 wood to the back of the green, even though it increases the chances of going somewhere unpleasant. No fun otherwise :fore:

 

[gdc]

Every year there is always one hole that gets me.
Last year it was the 7th a Par 5 about 540 yards where I averaged over 6 on it without ever being in any serious trouble.

This year one comp in and already 3 jabbed it for a 6.
What's worse is that I know it's all in my head and I bring it on myself.

 

[mikee247]

the 10th on mine which is now the first due to a course change around.... its 620 ish off the back pegs and now has a SI of 8 instead of the 1 it used to have! OB all down the left with overhanging trees and with bunkers protecting the right. Its a total mental hole with a big oak tree sat in the middle of the fairway that just attracts you ball on the second shot if you can get there. Early summer its tough to hit GIR as you need to be long off the tea to make this happen with a strong accurate second giving ideally 120 ish in either side of the tree. Then 2 deep bunkers and a huge raised green awaits your 3 putt!. A total card wrecker which we have had a mixed relationship with in medal rounds. Take a 6 all day long on here and walk on

 

[EuanRoss]

18 at Newburgh is always a real toughie. 550 yd par 5, dogleg to left (I play with a fade), bunkers on the right at driving distance, bushes left and right, water hazard in left about 100yds out, bottleneck at 50 yds, elevated green with trouble left and right.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I have several. The simple 320 yard 4th. Easy 3 wood leaves a wedge. Always seem to find fresh ways to make bogey. Our 6th is only 178 yards but has OB tight right and also left. Can't remember the last time I hit the green in a comp to make par. The 16th. SI 3 and 425 yards with OB tight left. I can get the drive away but still going in from 180-200 and rarely make the green and relying on my short game (yeah right). If I miss the fairway right (anti OB) then I can't get there. I know I'm not expected to make par but I am capable of chucking a 6 at it without too much effort

 

[malek988]

http://www.ardglassgolfclub.com/dsp_course.cfm Hole 12 its a par 3, the picture speaks for itself, though i will add ardglass is very well known for being windy, so the constant right to left wind on this hole plays havoc with me, i either hit it straight and the wind blows it left, or i aim right into the wind and the ball goes straight as a dye into the water

 

[richart]

http://www.ardglassgolfclub.com/dsp_course.cfm Hole 12 its a par 3, the picture speaks for itself, though i will add ardglass is very well known for being windy, so the constant right to left wind on this hole plays havoc with me, i either hit it straight and the wind blows it left, or i aim right into the wind and the ball goes straight as a dye into the water

Out of interest is your course any where near Royal County Down ? Would like to do a boys trip to RCD and looking for other courses to play. Yours look lovely. Sorry for going off topic.

My nemesis hole is the 5th. 400 yards right angle dog leg right. OB down the right side and you need to hit your tee shot about 200 yards to get round the dogleg. If you play safe down the left your second shot is over 200 yards into a very small, very sloping green surrounded by heather. Miss left or right almost impossible to get down in two. Usually plays the most difficult hole, and always happy to take a five.

 

[Stuey01]

Our 7th, stroke index 1, is a dogleg par 4. Tee shot is dead if wide on both sides. You need to get it 200 to 220yards to the left side of the fairway or first cut to have any shot at the green, too long and you're in a bombhole with trees, too short and you're shooting blind over trees or laying up, too far right and you have no shot at all. It's a really tough tee shot. I need to figure out a way to get it in play in a good position on this hole, I'd be happy to walk off with 5 consistently.

Also the 17th and 18th holes are long par 4s playing even longer uphill, a bogey is a good score on both. A very tough finish has killed many a good round. The 18th in particular needs a huge tee shot and even then 2nd shot is still a good 4iron, with ball above your feet too. When into the wind I've hit a good drive and a 3 wood and only just got there, and I am among the longer hitters at the club.

 

[williamalex1]

Any hole can be your nemesis if you let it, holes don't change that much , so its a operator problem.

 

[ScienceBoy]

Used to be out long, into the wind par 5 with two carries over water. I master that and my gross score for the last 7 rounds is something like 2 over par (including a birdie).

It is now the tricky par 3 16th. You have to either fade it round or play over the edge of a wood, any shot left to right however then takes you away from the green and back into the woods. Anything drawn ends up in the stream or the wood to the left.

Ideally the tee for the hole would be in line with the gap between the two sets of trees but its positioned so you have to play over the right set of trees. This makes it VERY hard, laying up to the front of the water and pitching on is a common tactic for the 160 yard hole. I usually hit a 7 iron over the trees, if it draws I end up on the green (or in the water), if it fades I find the bail out area, if its straight I find the fringe or the green. If its thin or hooked then its dead, sliced its double dead!

 

[Doon frae Troon]

16th at Seafield has ruined many a good round of mine.
Drivable short par 4 downhill with a deep burn in front of the green and trees behind.
You can either play 6 iron and full wedge or 5 wood and a flick.
The full wedge has to be perfect as the green slopes back to front and if you over hit in the trees it can easily rebound across the green into the burn.

 

[malek988]

Out of interest is your course any where near Royal County Down ? Would like to do a boys trip to RCD and looking for other courses to play. Yours look lovely. Sorry for going off topic.

My nemesis hole is the 5th. 400 yards right angle dog leg right. OB down the right side and you need to hit your tee shot about 200 yards to get round the dogleg. If you play safe down the left your second shot is over 200 yards into a very small, very sloping green surrounded by heather. Miss left or right almost impossible to get down in two. Usually plays the most difficult hole, and always happy to take a five.

Yep it's 30 mins away definitely reccommend giving it a try most people who do RCD usually come to us afterwards

 

[patricks148]

16th at Nairn most medal rounds if its an easterly.

Stood on the 16th tee twice last year level par gross and both times walked off with 12.

its only 406 yards of the medal tee, but semi blind. and anything left in the heather and right in gorse. theres a burn runnig across the front of the green with 3 pot bunkers behind that. theres also a kidney shaped green with a large pot bunker left and 3 right greenside. the green is quite slope on it the high point being the ridge in the middle.

if you dont get the 2nd shot right you are usually plugged inthe face of one of the bunkers.

You can lay up, but get too close to the burn with the lay up and a bad bounce takes you straight in it anyway.

Its a great hole though

 

[Evesdad]

It really is amazing how many par 3's get into our heads! Our third is a tough par 3 and as someone mentioned earlier I started laying up! Felt like I'd wimped out at first but now walk off with a 4 at worst which could quite often be a 5 or 6!

The one hole that does get me though is the 5th par 4. It's not even difficult but somehow I manage to find a way of messing it up! It's a 6 or 7 iron in the winter from the tee and upto a hybrid in the summer. Play down to the small pond and stream and then a wedge to 8 iron for the green which is about 15 feet higher. So straight forward but if the tee shot is too left not sight of the green and the same to the right. I get two shots on this hole until the stokes indexs change! Then I'll struggle further!

 

[Darth Fader]

Our 18th is a downhill par 3, heavily bunkered, drop off at the back and a ditch 20 yards short of the green. Lost count of the amount of good rounds its ruined.