That "Oh No" Hole

[HomerJSimpson]

Which hole on your course fills you with dread. For me its the 6th at Royal Ascot. Tight OB down the right and OB about thirty yards left just left of the path in shot. Only 178 off the whites but so many times I can play the opening five holes well and will inexplicably hit one straight right or produce a big hook from nowhere. SI 14 so no shot either. I take 4 here every time and get out. It shouldn't be as hard as it is but a lot of people seem scared of it

 

[swanny32]

Haven't got any pictures of it but for me it's either the 2nd or the 8th at our place.

2nd is a long par 3, it plays 235 yards off the whites, OB right, trees left and 2 bunkers short of the green on either side. I have now taught myself to just knock an iron up there and chip on but will sometimes look to hit a strong 4 iron or hybrid only to then slice it OB. Very happy to walk away with a 4 there.

The 8th is SI2, uphill par 4, only 309 off the whites but OB left and right so your tee shot has to be straight, you can't really take anything more than a hybrid off the tee as about 50 yards short of the green are some huge trees that run right across the fairway meaning you need to be a fair bit back from them to be able to get the height with your second shot. People who don't know the course will take 3 wood or driver and leave themselves a very difficult punch shot through the trees. I'm usually just happy to score a point on that hole!

 

[One Planer]

17th at Wychwood Park

188 Yard from an elevated tee, Par 3

First 50-60 yards is over heavy clag and crap. Then probably another 100 yards over water to a slopey green.

Only played it the once, missed green long into the back bunker and walked off with a 4.

I was well chuffed :whoo:

 

[ScienceBoy]

The 9th at South Winchester, a long par 4 with a lake at an angle half way up. The first half of the hole is downhill to the lake, the 2nd half is uphill to a raised green surrounded by bunkers short right and all down the left side as well as two mounds with associated hollows on the front (talk about overkill on protection!)

The tee shot is a 4 iron to the water for the right side, leaving a hybrid or a long iron up the hill for a 2nd shot. A 3 iron/hybrid further up the lake to leave a mid/long iron in or a wood or driver up the left side (at yet another bunker) to leave a mid iron in.

The pros just drive the water and wedge on... damn them!

The green is pretty tame but has some subtle borrows, once you know them its easy.

The seniors play it as a par 5!

 

[Sir Slicealot]

All 18 of them

 

[richart]

They all fill me with dread, but the worse one is probably the fifth. Usually plays the hardest on the course, and requires a perfectly positioned tee shot to get round the 90 degree dogleg to the right. If you try and keep as tight to the dogleg to give yourself the shortest shot in, you are risking the out of bounds down the right and a ditch that runs across the fairway. Play safe off the tee down the left and you leave yourself a hybrid/wood into the green.

The green is tiny with a heather bank on the right, and a grass bank on the left that kicks the ball away. The entrance to the green is only about 20 feet wide. Should you hit the green, you are then faced with a quick green that slopes from front to back and left to right. Two putts is a real result, and I have heard that the odd Pro has been known to four putt this green.

 

[Aztecs27]

Easy, the 10th on my new course. Blind-ish tee shot and everything slopes severely left to right with a row of thick conifers hugging the left hand side of the fairway (to protect the road leading up to the car park)...so you can either try and go the shortest route straight down the left, hugging the line of the conifers, in which instance your ball will be in a decent position but with the ball WELL below your feet.

OR you can play safe and shoot it straight down the middle of the fairway or right, doesn't matter which as the ball will end up in the same place at the bottom of the hill with a longer, uphill shot to the green, ball still below your feet, but not by quite as much.

Oh and to top it all off, your shooting to a green which is pretty small and has bunkers on both sides protecting it. Anything left is either in the bunker or you have a down hill chip onto the green...Anything right and your in the bunker or at the bottom of the hill with a pitch shot back up the hill about 25ft onto the green.

I'll have to get some pics next time I play it, but it's really not a nice hole at all.

 

[GreiginFife]

The 3rd on the "new" nine at my course. It's only 173 from the whites (or 160 from yellow) but both have a crap approach angle to an elevated green.
And I usually miss it left and roll into the trees.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Which hole on your course fills you with dread. For me its the 6th at Royal Ascot. Tight OB down the right and OB about thirty yards left just left of the path in shot. Only 178 off the whites but so many times I can play the opening five holes well and will inexplicably hit one straight right or produce a big hook from nowhere. SI 14 so no shot either. I take 4 here every time and get out. It shouldn't be as hard as it is but a lot of people seem scared of it

Thanks Homer, just seeing pictures of that hole makes me shudder. For me that's where the front 9 starts to get tough. If I can get through 6, 7, 8 & 9 dropping less than 3 shots it's a job well done as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Evesdad]

The 8th par 5 at mine always kicks me in the knackers. Nothing really nasty OOB down left trees down right. Dog leg left at about 300 yards with another 250 to the green. The first section is also all up hill! Like I said no water or anything too nasty it just takes me 3 well hit shots to get on the dance floor, not something I can normally do!! Blast the drive and make a mess of the rest or vice versa. Best on this hole for me is a 6!

Or

The third 211 yds par 3. OOB left, trees right again. Bunkers short front and right of green is deep bunker. Also ground slopes left to right. Anything short gets the front bunker, anything slightly short and right rolls into the right bunker! So either get it on the green or like I've been doing recently lay up short and put a floaty wedge onto the green! Think I've hit most clubs Including driver on this hole!

 

[Smiffy]

I have heard that the odd Pro has been known to four putt this green.

Might I suggest a V-Easy????

 

[Shanks a lot!]

The 18th hole on my course is a right ballache, uphill all the way with a blind drive to the fairway, trees left and heather and more trees to the right. On a good day I can drive it just short of the 150 marker, but those days are few and far between. Doesn't help that it is the steepest walk anywhere on the course when you are coming to the end of your round:rofl:

Here it is:http://www.westendgc.co.uk/pages.php/course_hole.html/9c63fb1c-23c3-11e0-9522-001ec9b03cad/18.html

 

[ScienceBoy]

They all fill me with dread, but the worse one is probably the fifth.

Cracking hole, sticks firmly in my memory, hit great drives both times I played it and then got green high only to be foiled by the protection around and the slopes of the green!

 

[srixon 1]

Not my course, but the 4th at Dartmouth is a card wrecker. OOB and water all down the left and OOB down the right for your second. Draw required off the tee, fade with a mid iron for your second, then a wedge onto the green followed by two putts and you have an easy par. Oh I forgot to mention that it is tighter than a gnats chuff.

 

[Imurg]

Probably our 4th.
459 yard par 4, gentle dog-leg right with bundu all the way down the right and a huge tree 200 out on the corner.
Bundu all the way left as well although it's quite a way off line.
Even a good tee shot can leave you a long way to go and with trees right of the green and a bunker left front and a drop-off behind, it's a tricky one.
If you don't nail a drive you know you can't get on in 2 and you're looking for a chip'n'putt to get nett par - green slopes back to front.

 

[Whereditgo]

Definitely the 3rd for me, par 4 SI 3 dog leg left, red stakes all the way down the left of the tee shot over which is jungle, trees all down the right, too long off the tee and more jungle.

Anything from 5 iron to hybrid off the tee depending on the wind, your 2nd (hopefully) stroke is through a gap in the trees, with the ball usually sitting above your feet, over the red staked hazard to an elevated green that is protected with bunkers front left and right and side left and right. Anything short and right is into the jungle again!

Carded a 12 in this months medal
Then recorded my first ever birdie of the hole a week later :whoo:

 

[RGDave]

It shouldn't be as hard as it is but a lot of people seem scared of it

I'm scared.....still having nightmares.

Last time I played it, dunked it in the RH bunker, thinned it OOB over the green and sloped off for a "hamlet cigar" moment.

Would have been at least a 6 or 7.

I've also panicked, lost my swing, and dumped it in the ditch there too.

Happy Days.

 

[Foxholer]

On the course I'm playing most these days it's the 1st!

135 +/- 10 or so Par 3 (never keen on these as a start) 19yd deep green normally cross/into wind and water round 3 sides! Welcome to The Shire!

 

[garyinderry]

the 9th at strabane has a river running up the left hand side so hook and its gone and it has a shuck running up the right hand side so slice and its in that. its not that long a hole so any more im hitting an iron off the tee.

 

[ArnoldArmChewer]

For me at the moment its our 9th & 10th, long par 4 then turn thro 180 degrees for a short par 5, however there is a thick hedge seperating the two of them on the LHS for pretty much the entire length, generally produces a hook from me, good score gone.