So....you've won the lottery...

[KeefG]

....and you're building your own golf course, pick a par 3, par 4 & par 5 from any course in the world that you would have incorporated into your course!

Par 3: the 12th @ Augusta - stunningly beautiful hole and a true risk/reward great.

Par 4: the 10th @ Brabazon - as above, there is a safe option but why play safe, if Seve can do it....

Par 5: the 16th @ Palmer Course, K Club. Quite possibly the prettiest par 5 green area i've ever seen. Also a tough hole.

 

[MVP]

par 5 15 augusta
par3 the island one at players championship
par 4 errrrr??? i'll get back on that

 

[stevek1969]

Par 3 - 8th hole Royal Troon Postage Stamp

Par 4 - 17th hole St Andrews Road Hole

Par 5 - 6th Carnoustie Hogans Alley

Can it get any better

 

[Golfmmad]

With my 30million I've just won on the Euromillions, am I allowed to do something different?

Like hiring Sevreiano Ballesteros to build me a golf course and his remit would be - use your imagination Seve!!

Golfmmad.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Par 3 - 17 at Pebble Beach

Par 4 - Road Hole

Par 5 - 15th Augusta

 

[mono217]

Par 4 - 17th Road Hole at st andrews

Par 3 - 17th at pebble beach

Par 5 - 15th at augusta

 

[JustOne]

Par 3 - 16th (East Course) East Sussex National
http://www.eastsussexnational.co.uk/golf/courses/e16.php
Plays like 12 at Augusta but from 178yards! Short you're in the lake or in the bunker, long you're off the back or in the bunker. You can bail out short left with an easy 7-iron but it can play as much as a 3-iron into the wind, flag at the back. The green is only 6y deep in the middle!

Par 4 - 14th (West Course) East Sussex National
http://www.eastsussexnational.co.uk/golf/courses/w14.php
Stroke index 1. Trouble all the way down the right hand side and the fairway slopes towards it. If you bail out left you can't reach the green in two - awesome hole.

Par 5 - 10th (East Course) East Sussex National
http://www.eastsussexnational.co.uk/golf/courses/e10.php
Only 510y par 5 but the green is the other side of a stream. If you nail your drive you are faced with a risk reward hole to a green that is protected on the left hand side with a mighy oak.

Best 3 holes I've ever seen..... erm, on a golf course

 

[Imurg]

Par 3 has to be the 12th at Augusta - no brainer.

Par 4 Tough but the Road hole would just steal it.

Par 5 I like the 13th at Augusta. Plenty to think about.

 

[Wildrover]

Amen corner.
'nuff said.

 

[KeefG]

Par 4 - 17th Road Hole at st andrews

Par 3 - 17th at pebble beach

Par 5 - 15th at augusta

Can't you think of you're own?

 

[Macster]

I build a replica of the West course at Wentworth........that'd do me.

Might need a £110M EuroMillions win tho'........

 

[KeefG]

Amen corner.
'nuff said.

Ahhh...but Amen corner only consists of the approach shot to the 11th, all of the 12th & tee shot on the 13th, so you have 2 incomplete holes lol

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Par 3 - 8th Troon
Par 4 - 18th Brabazon
Par 5 - 13th Augusta

 

[Wildrover]

Amen corner.
'nuff said.

Ahhh...but Amen corner only consists of the approach shot to the 11th, all of the 12th & tee shot on the 13th, so you have 2 incomplete holes lol

I beg to differ, Amen corner is the 11th, 12th and 13th holes in their entirity. Don't go by what it showed on the red button during the Masters.

 

[KeefG]

From wikipedia:

Amen Corner

The second shot at the 11th, all of the 12th, and the tee shot at the 13th hole at Augusta are nicknamed "Amen Corner." This term was first used in print by author Herbert Warren Wind in a 1958 Sports Illustrated article. He may have taken the name from the play by James Baldwin, or from a jazz song called "Shouting at Amen Corner" or "Shoutin in that Amen Corner." (The term is, in any case, an old Southern expression.)

 

[Wildrover]

I still beg to differ.

From About.com

Question: Why is "Amen Corner" Called That, and Who Came Up with the Name?

Amen Corner is a famous part of Augusta National Golf Club. But why is it called that, and who came up with the name?

Answer: "Amen Corner" was so christened following the 1958 Masters by writer Herbert Warren Wind in an article in Sports Illustrated. That was the Masters where Arnold Palmer earned his first major championship with the help of a ruling that, even decades later, runner-up Ken Venturi was still challenging.

Wind gave the monicker "Amen Corner" to holes 11, 12 and 13 because of the seemingly miraculous way in which Palmer played those holes on the final day.

The official website of The Masters describes the happenings this way:

"Saturday evening in 1958, heavy rains soaked the course. For Sunday’s round, a local rule was adopted allowing a player whose ball was embedded to lift and drop it without penalty. Sunday on No. 12, Arnold Palmer hit his ball over the green and the ball embedded in the steep bank behind it. Being uncertain about the applicability of the local rule, the official on the hole and Palmer agreed that the ball should be played as it lay and that Palmer could play a second ball which he dropped. Palmer holed out for a 5 with the original ball and a 3 with the second ball. The committee was asked to decide if the local rule was applicable and if so, which score should count.

"At No. 13, still unsure of what his score was at 12, Palmer sank an 18-foot putt for eagle 3. When he was playing No. 15, Palmer was told his drop at 12 was proper and that his score on the hole was 3, leading to his first major victory."

Wind's inspiration for the name "Amen Corner" came from a jazz record titled "Shouting at Amen Corner."

 

[KeefG]

We'll agree to disagree then, we both have 2 sites saying 2 different things

 

[Wildrover]

Agreed

I still choose the 11th, 12th and 13th at Augusta though whatever they're called.

 

[KeefG]

But you cnt as you'll have incomp.....ah, we've been here before havent we?

 

[Wildrover]

But you cnt as you'll have incomp.....ah, we've been here before havent we?

What did you call me?