toonarmy
Q-School Graduate
From the tee, either right into your face or a very helpful gust from left-to-right, making sure you end up OB usually!
Opening hole tee shot
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From the tee, either right into your face or a very helpful gust from left-to-right, making sure you end up OB usually!
muttleee
Tour Rookie
Looks gorgeous, John!
Slightly better view of ours, thats the teebox ive labelled with tiny yellow dots, the trees have grown quite a bit since this pic, it must be at least 5 years old. If you tee up too close to the left to get a view of the fairway your backswing might well hit the proshop!
rgs
Tour Rookie
Ours is a 413 yarder -- with a bunker either side of the fairway between 198 and 165 from the green. Genuine tough opener.
viscount17
Money List Winner
Wyboston lakes - 212 to the middle of the dogleg, 361 if you want to try to drive the green, 475 the long way round.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2228/2213306296_767ef6d3eb_m.jpg
brendy, couldn't get this to open - any ideas?
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2228/2213306296_767ef6d3eb_m.jpg
brendy, couldn't get this to open - any ideas?
hmm gimme a sec, ill try opening it
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viscount17
Money List Winner
thanks, I tried wrapping it with the image select option and with img; possibly there were some spaces that I missed.
interesting thing about this image is that it was cut from Google Earth but just how recent their images are I'm starting to doubt. There should be a fountain and a nest platform in the lake and a set of power lines running diagonally across the 1st and adjacent 10th about 70 m from the tee - I know, I've hit them (local rule, reload - no penalty).
interesting thing about this image is that it was cut from Google Earth but just how recent their images are I'm starting to doubt. There should be a fountain and a nest platform in the lake and a set of power lines running diagonally across the 1st and adjacent 10th about 70 m from the tee - I know, I've hit them (local rule, reload - no penalty).
clubchamp07
Journeyman Pro
It's not often we play a course with a par 3 opening hole, can't think of any localy. Maybe Brendy knows 1 or 2.
I'm of the mind thinking that if we were able to stand up with the big driver on the 1st tee we could possibly get a feel of the way we're going to play on the said day.
With our 1st hole anything from a 5 iron to a 5 wood will get us to where we're happy to be, as long as we miss the bunker.
We will be changing our 1st hole this year as we have sold a plot of land and we need to change it. Maybe then the driver will be out a bit more, I dont think it will be.
I'm of the mind thinking that if we were able to stand up with the big driver on the 1st tee we could possibly get a feel of the way we're going to play on the said day.
With our 1st hole anything from a 5 iron to a 5 wood will get us to where we're happy to be, as long as we miss the bunker.
We will be changing our 1st hole this year as we have sold a plot of land and we need to change it. Maybe then the driver will be out a bit more, I dont think it will be.
Mount Ober in belfast (used to be knockbracken) has a 5-8 iron par 3 starter. Im now wracking my head trying to think of others.
viscount17
Money List Winner
Thorpe Wood - 195 par 3, Manor of Groves - 173. Oddly both are downhill so a nice gentle intro
Possibly Crossgar from memory also.
muttleee
Tour Rookie
Blimey. I didn't even realise that Crossgar *had* a golf course.
Bentra has a par 3 for openers, up in Whitehead. That's where I struck my first shot in anger on an actual golf course.
Crossgar has a golf course (9 holer) but its nothing to write home about.
Lurgan Park has a very short par4 as does Belvoir Park for an opener, both are driveable.
Lurgan Park has a very short par4 as does Belvoir Park for an opener, both are driveable.
Leftie
Tour Winner
One that MWJ would probably know - Mid Kent near Rochester. Opening hole 157 yd par 3. The 3rd hole, a par 5, was where I got my 1st ever eagle (lucky bounce off a mound at the side of the green so no skill involved). I was a visitor so couldn't claim local knowledge or member's bounce. 
toonarmy
Q-School Graduate
Aldwark Manor outside York.
Par 3 1st hole AND Par 3 18th - can't be many like that!
Par 3 1st hole AND Par 3 18th - can't be many like that!
Geoff_Baker
Newbie
At Dartmouth GC (West Bromwich) we get a nice easy start. A 616 yard par 5 with OB all the way down the left and a fairway that resembles a rollercoaster for most of its length.
Hopefully by the summer we will have a new back tee making the hole around 670 yards!
Hopefully by the summer we will have a new back tee making the hole around 670 yards!
MVP
Journeyman Pro
guaranteed birdy then!!
Liam_Austin
Assistant Pro
A very short par 4 but by no means easy, standing on that first tee, with the range to your left , clubhouse to your right. It can certainly get the nerves goin on a busy saturday morning.
Anyway, read the bio on the hole, and see what you think.
http://www.puttenhamgolfclub.co.uk/PuttenhamHole01.htm
Liam
Anyway, read the bio on the hole, and see what you think.
http://www.puttenhamgolfclub.co.uk/PuttenhamHole01.htm
Liam
madandra
Money List Winner
£6.70 in a taxi you mean.
Jesus, thats not a golf hole, its a sponsored walk.
muttleee
Tour Rookie
Hopefully?!
