Ye Olde Boomer
Well-known member
The game of golf lost one of its very best holes when the Applewood Golf Course closed down.
The 16th at Applewood, which was the #18 handicap hole, was nicknamed "The Lie Detector."
It was a perfectly flat 300 yard par 4. The fairway was wide enough to hit driver with impunity.
The unnecessarily large green was completely unprotected from the front.
300 yards, of course, was the distance to the middle of that green, not to the front edge.
Every golf course in the world should have an identical hole.
It made the loudest member of the group surprisingly quiet.
The 16th at Applewood, which was the #18 handicap hole, was nicknamed "The Lie Detector."
It was a perfectly flat 300 yard par 4. The fairway was wide enough to hit driver with impunity.
The unnecessarily large green was completely unprotected from the front.
300 yards, of course, was the distance to the middle of that green, not to the front edge.
Every golf course in the world should have an identical hole.
It made the loudest member of the group surprisingly quiet.