Strangest/Oddest course that you have played on.

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I am in Mumbai for a couple of weeks and hoping for a game. (see cross post here). I have played in Mumbai once. @ The Royal Palms course. It was an experience to forget/savour. The course itself was (lets say) needing TLC. My most memorable shot was driving off a high tee box, trying to avoid hitting the construction workers on a building site in the middle of the fairway and getting to the greens on the other side of the building. Needless to say, I sliced it, off the course onto the road. But my Scottish mate, managed to bouce it off the building onto the otherside just short of the greens!!


What is the strangest/oddest one has played on? :eek:
 
Shiskine on Arran, its a wonderful 12 hole lay out that is amazing. Loads of blind par 3's, hitting up to greens100 feet above you, hitting back down the other side and loads of other crazy wonderful holes that just seem to work so well.

It is a must play for everyone!
 
Painswick in Gloucestershire. Similar to the course Craw describes, blind par 3s played over old forts short holes evrywhere. Only about 4000 yards in total, spread out over common land on Painswick beacon. Walkers, ramblers, picnickers, doggers have to be avoided on the way round.
Aces are no longer counted on 2 blind par 3s after one 4 ball group got to the green to find that all their balls were in the hole for a 1!!!!
 
For me its two links courses, short in nature but holes really quirky stonehaven in aberdeenshire on the east coast perched on the edge of a cliff or Winterfield on the west coast at Dunbar again crazy, both are a lot of fun and if the wind is blowing you need a driver a the par 3's and you are still pitching on.
 
Sutton Bridge for me, it is a 9 hole course built in an old ship yard. There is one green sat on top of a 20 foot high doc wall that you play to from the fairway below. Some of the holes are effectively walled in. A very different experience.
 
Played West Cornwall for the first (and last) time on Saturday. Shocking course, in a word it is dangerous. You have to walk back to quite a few tees which brings you into the firing line of the group behind playing their second shots and several "dual fairways" where you have groups hitting towards each other. I was almost hit by stray shots 4 times during the round!

Pity really because there are actually some really good holes on the course.
 
I thought The Addington was quite quirky but haven't played as many courses as most.

It can't be right that anything longer than a 6 iron off the tee of a par 5 runs the risk of finding heather in the middle of the fairway. :eek:
 
Murphthemog's course has a par3 (16th?) that you hit the ball blind into a hole in the ground.... some old bomb crater..... or unfinished sewer...... :p
 
Kyle of Lochalsh
Biscuit tin honesty box.
9 holes built around a large cricket green sized area. Greens and tees set into rocky hill faces.
If I remember correctly there are holes that double criss cross.
Would not like to play it with more than 10 golfers on the course.
 
North Luffenham as well, honesty box on the way in, plays around the airfield, roads used by traffic accross a number of holes, runway nearby, all a bit odd really.
 
Alex1975 said:
Rickmansworth Golf Club for me, its dubbed Tricky Ricky, is very short but has so very strange holes. Lots of fun.

http://www.hertsmereleisure.co.uk/rickmansworth+golf+course/the+course/18+hole+course
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I was just thinking of Tricky Ricky, cant remember the hole, might be the 16th a par 3, where the greens about a 100ft up the side of a big hill and by the time you get up there, you're so knackered all you can think about is if you're going to have a heart attack or not
 
A few years ago, I played a course in Kuala Lumpur (cant remember the name).. Beautiful course not very far from the city. Searching for the ball was always a challenge, as Monkeys would do a runner with your ball. This was slighty better than in Mumbai, where kids would ferret away your balls, and would come around to sell it back!!!.


All part of the experience
 
harvey4banger said:
I was just thinking of Tricky Ricky, cant remember the hole, might be the 16th a par 3, where the greens about a 100ft up the side of a big hill and by the time you get up there, you're so knackered all you can think about is if you're going to have a heart attack or not
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Its the 15th, it looks like nothing on the photo but as you know the green is about a mile up in the air so if you can avoid the rough you will just shoot your ball into the side of the mountain. I think I have played there about 100 times, not for many years now as its a bit short but I do love the place!
 
Top House in New Zealand.

It's a guest house, owned by a farmer, who has cut 5 golf holes into his fields. The greens are shocking, the layout unimaginative, but because it is so unexpected, it's fun. I just borrowed a 9i, and hacked round while on a cycling holiday.

Other than that, Scrabo in Norn Irn, or Dodger's favourite, Bamborough Castle are pretty unusual, and quirky at best.
 
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