Tightest tee shot you've played?

[Robobum]

The 10th @ Ross on Wye is single file only, even harder because the hole is 450yds long so you can't exactly chip it down there!

The following hole is almost as tight but has the added difficulty of having to control the length too. Needs to go at least 220 to get a clear shot at the green, any longer than 245 and you are thru the fairway in the clag. Great couple of holes.

 

[monktonhallgc1882]

Only one out of many stands out for me and that's the 14th hole at Winterfield GC Dunbar. From the medal tee, about 200 yards, you're hitting across the beach to a green that slopes right to left towards the sea. The beach line also cuts immediately round the rear of the green making it even more daunting. Bail out to the right and your hitting back across the slope towards the sea. Many a top player and the odd writer recon its one of the best.

Yeah that is an evil golf hole

 

[351DRIVER]

Top 5 for me would be:
14 at Braid Hills (Edinburgh) aim left then loads of room
4 at Braid Hills (Edinburgh) a par 4 in that is really a par 3
6 at Murrayfield (Edinburgh) forget the course, i do know there is a short par 4 up the hill there with a tree
15 at Hollandbush (Lanarkshire) (Theres a course no one has played)
4 at Dunbar (East Lothian) (especially with a severe crosswind)

... Someone who has played two rounds of golf in England may not be the best thread starter here!

Depends no your game what is tight, i find the 2nd hole at Mortonhall to be probably the narrowest landing area for me as although the hole is straight with a massive fairway for short hitters the fairway is no more than 10 yards wide at one point, with a massive bunker on the right side... almost impossible to hit (The bunker though is very easy to find)

 

[garyinderry]

Nothing makes my knees knock like the 9th at Strabane. River left, ditch up the right.


Hard hole to finish the front 9. Not long. Mostly plays into wind.

Crippled loads of rounds during their scratch cup.

 

[Hosel Fade]

6 at Murrayfield (Edinburgh)

That is a worthy contender not so much from the tees straight in line but from the one that is offset behind the previous green so you come across the gorse left and towards the very steep drop off right, really doesn't help that it was so windy the clubhead was wobbling about at the top of the swing either. Not so much visually tight as others but very very tough to hit the fairway

 

[Capella]

Hole 11 in Bad Bevensen (I think I posted this pic on here before)


It's a par 5 It just goes on like that.

 

[matt611]

13th at Strandhill.

Was so windy you couldn't drive over the dunes so instead you had to aim through the smallest of gaps. The green is bloody narrow as well

 

[Piece]

Yes, 4th at Traditions is tight. I'll also throw in the 10th and especially the 11th at Oak Park in Crondall. Near impossible to hold the fairway on the 11th.

 

[Deleted member 18645]

4th at Traditions from the whites comes to mind, off the yellows its just about acceptable as you can hit a 4 or 5 iron

There will be a couple at Wimbledon Common/London Scottish but I can't think of the numbers now

Spot on with the 4th at Trads, sorry Twisted Stone! They never use the back tees any more - there isn't a pro in the world who would play from there.

Wimbledon Common is the 6th - a long par three where you walk single file between the trees to get to the green avoiding the jobsworths on their horses.

 

[Deleted member 18645]

Yes, 4th at Traditions is tight. I'll also throw in the 10th and especially the 11th at Oak Park in Crondall. Near impossible to hold the fairway on the 11th.

Those four holes in the middle of Oak Park are a joke. It's like riding round a CentreParcs. I played a Crown Champion of Champions there a few years back and all the scratch players had t start on the 10th. The best score was +3 gross after four holes because the fairways are hard and they decided to put "difficult" aka "bloody stupid" hole locations up there too.

 

[Foxholer]

There's a Pay and Play course in Kent area - can't remember the name of it (2 words though) but was working in Tunbridge Wells at the time - that had a seriously threatening hole, perhaps even the 1st! Fairway is cut through a copse of trees (seemingly narrower than Imurg's West course 12th offering), so straight or dead!

Another that springs to mind was the 12th (?) at Moatlands - became Kent National, but is now farmland again. Anything either side of a tiny strip of fairway and you were playing your 2nd from an extreme hanging lie or around one of half a dozen trees!

 

[Hosel Fade]

Yes, 4th at Traditions is tight. I'll also throw in the 10th and especially the 11th at Oak Park in Crondall. Near impossible to hold the fairway on the 11th.

In the category of impossible to hit fairways I put forward the downhill off camber dogleg left par 5 on the front nine at Chipstead (something like 4th or 5th). They have a local rule there that lets you drop well away from the OoB fence that basically every tee shot will reach

 

[Deleted member 18121]

Hole 11 in Bad Bevensen (I think I posted this pic on here before)
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It's a par 5 It just goes on like that.

I'd mostly be playing that hole with putter :thup:

 

[Roops]

2nd hole at Fuertaventura Golf Club. Par 4, 30-40' deep culvert all the way down the left. The first 200 yds are about 20 yds wide with out of bounds on the right (a road). Unless it is straight, reload.......Unless you manage to hit a flukey high draw onto the road, it bounced twice and clears the fence, back onto the fairway

 

[Captainron]

14th at Trump Links. With that wind off the ocean, the fairway looks like a little green pipe cleaner laid in a sea of trouble

 

[Deleted member 18645]

14th at Trump Links. With that wind off the ocean, the fairway looks like a little green pipe cleaner laid in a sea of trouble

Is that the hole with the wall up against the fairway to keep the Mexicans out?

 

[MendieGK]

For pure width of fairway, the 1st at Burnham is the narrowest I've seen although our 7th is tight too.

completely disagree with the 1st at Burnham, if played sensibly the fairway is massive! its only tight if you decide to try thread it into the valley (which is braindead)

 

[Piece]

Those four holes in the middle of Oak Park are a joke. It's like riding round a CentreParcs. I played a Crown Champion of Champions there a few years back and all the scratch players had t start on the 10th. The best score was +3 gross after four holes because the fairways are hard and they decided to put "difficult" aka "bloody stupid" hole locations up there too.

Totally agree. Those four holes are a mini course within a big course.

 

[Robobum]

completely disagree with the 1st at Burnham, if played sensibly the fairway is massive! its only tight if you decide to try thread it into the valley (which is braindead)

I'd agree with this. Although I've only ever played it wind into so reaching the narrowing is never an issue

 

[Crow]

The tightest I can remember was the seventh at Seve's first course in Spain, Los Arqueros.

Dead straight but a very narrow fairway with a huge drop off all down the right and a scrub covered bank all down the left, dead either side, and then a tiny well protected green.
330 yards from the back, 300 from the yellow, I hit 7 iron off the tee, found the green with my next and then three poked.

Pic looking back towards the tee and a short flyover can be found on the link below
http://www.losarquerosgolf.com/en/hole-by-hole