Strangest/Oddest course that you have played on.

[harvey4banger]

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!

I havent played there for a while either, good fun from the start though with that up hill par 3, dont think you can even see the flag from the tee

 

[ADB]

Maybe not the oddest course, but the oddest hole I have played is the 8th at Chiltern forest. Stood on the tee and the green is 150 yards away but all you see is a south face of the Eigar, Ok bit of an exageration but there must be about a 100ft rise in elevation to a postage stamp green that is practically impossible to hit - definite lung buster.

 

[Slime]

Monte Mayor in Spain.....................just mental!

 

[srixon 1]

Have played a few odd courses and all with a different degree of oddness.

Yelverton - Leave the club house and cross a road to the 1st which is in a field all by itself, then cross another road to the remaining holes. Also, when we played it the greens were fenced off as the course was littered with farm animals. Some of the fairways looked like they had been mined, not much fun finding your ball in the middle of a cow pat.

Dakar (in Africa) - Greens like a football pitch, fairways with mainly sand and a few cabbage like weeds. If you hit the "fairway" you were allowed to move your ball to the nearest weed.

 

[MegaSteve]

Another vote for 'Tricky Ricky'... Played there many many times... Always a good crack... Really good for tidying up your iron play... Biggest downside was that with so many short holes... On busy days rounds could take 5+ hours... Great little clubhouse too boot...

Just to clarify, fairly certain, the par 3 already discussed was originally the 16th but after the re-vamp a few years back it became the 15th... If you got yourself a three on this hole you'd either played it very well or just been plain lucky!

 

[backwoodsman]

If you think that the 15th at Ricky is a "bit steep" then you should try either Strathpeffer (up near Inverness) or Murrayshall Lynedoch (near Perth). You need a mountain goat to carry your clubs, not a caddie. The first at Strathpeffer has (I believe) the biggest drop in height between tee & green in the UK. "Damn silly course" springs to mind for both of 'em

 

[the_scrambler]

Have to agree with two previous posters ... Monte Mayor! And, you can throw in dodgy brakes on the carts!

 

[Richuk123]

The Strangest course ive played is

Blue Circle Golf Course -- It was (as i don't know if it is still there) set in the grounds of the Blue Circle Cement Works Near Bristol. i had a league game there back in 2000 and the 1st /9th ran through the Cricket Pitch so the fairway was the widest (and driest!) ive ever seen!!

 

[sweatysock41]

Abu Dhabi GC as was - not the one that Casey and Kaymer have won at - this was a 'Sand Course' in the middle of the race track where the fairways were marked in the sand by paint and you could hit the ball off the piece of astroturf you carried with you. If you weren't on the 'short stuff' you had to play the ball as it lay unless you were in one of the imaginary water hazards marked by the obligatory red or yellow stakes.

You played onto 'Browns' which was a rolled area where crude oil had been poured onto the sand, after you had finished one of the labourers from the indian subcontinent who was paid a pittance would squeegee the whole brown smooth.

This was the 1st 18 holes I played - after that anything was an improvement but I was hooked.

 

[vkurup]

Abu Dhabi GC as was - not the one that Casey and Kaymer have won at - this was a 'Sand Course' in the middle of the race track where the fairways were marked in the sand by paint and you could hit the ball off the piece of astroturf you carried with you. If you weren't on the 'short stuff' you had to play the ball as it lay unless you were in one of the imaginary water hazards marked by the obligatory red or yellow stakes.

You played onto 'Browns' which was a rolled area where crude oil had been poured onto the sand, after you had finished one of the labourers from the indian subcontinent who was paid a pittance would squeegee the whole brown smooth.

This was the 1st 18 holes I played - after that anything was an improvement but I was hooked.

This one takes the biscuit.. sounds more intriguing than Tricky Ricky.

 

[swanny32]

Abu Dhabi GC as was - not the one that Casey and Kaymer have won at - this was a 'Sand Course' in the middle of the race track where the fairways were marked in the sand by paint and you could hit the ball off the piece of astroturf you carried with you. If you weren't on the 'short stuff' you had to play the ball as it lay unless you were in one of the imaginary water hazards marked by the obligatory red or yellow stakes.

You played onto 'Browns' which was a rolled area where crude oil had been poured onto the sand, after you had finished one of the labourers from the indian subcontinent who was paid a pittance would squeegee the whole brown smooth.

This was the 1st 18 holes I played - after that anything was an improvement but I was hooked.

Sounds horrific, oddly enough though I really want to give it a go!

 

[Dave3498]

Montemayor, in a word, bonkers.

Yes!! There's no doubt about that. The course should never have been built there. The rough road up to it is bad enough, you can't carry your clubs around, you have to have one of their expensive buggies, and I'm told that the average loss of balls there is 14 . It's in Andalucia. Avoid it.

 

[ADB]

Yes!! There's no doubt about that. The course should never have been built there. The rough road up to it is bad enough, you can't carry your clubs around, you have to have one of their expensive buggies, and I'm told that the average loss of balls there is 14 . It's in Andalucia. Avoid it.

Easyto avoid as it closed last November.

 

[sweatysock41]

Sounds horrific, oddly enough though I really want to give it a go!

Although the original course at the recetrack now has grass and greens there is a similar establishment that came on the scene about 3 years after I was there. To get some idea of what it was like check out their website http://www.alghazalgolf.ae/. To get some idea of the cost there are approximately 6 dirhams to the pound.

 

[srixon 1]

Abu Dhabi GC as was - not the one that Casey and Kaymer have won at - this was a 'Sand Course' in the middle of the race track where the fairways were marked in the sand by paint and you could hit the ball off the piece of astroturf you carried with you. If you weren't on the 'short stuff' you had to play the ball as it lay unless you were in one of the imaginary water hazards marked by the obligatory red or yellow stakes.

You played onto 'Browns' which was a rolled area where crude oil had been poured onto the sand, after you had finished one of the labourers from the indian subcontinent who was paid a pittance would squeegee the whole brown smooth.

This was the 1st 18 holes I played - after that anything was an improvement but I was hooked.

Played here in 1996, and I have also played the sand courses in Dubai and Bahrain. Once you get used to the browns they are not too bad and the ball rolls quicker than you think. Your clubs soon get trashed from repetetive hitting from the "rough".

 

[Fraz]

Cullen is a quirky little course,blind tee shots over sea stacks,little gem though.

This!

Had a cracking afternon playing Cullen at the end of last year. Only one on the course (weather was that bad even all the senior members didnt bother going out for their medal) blind shots up hills, massive drops, playing over cliff faces, it really was great. Going to go back again this year with my friends at some point!

 

[Dave3498]

Easyto avoid as it closed last November.

Great!!