Tightest tee shot you've played?

[bladeplayer]

I can't tell you what I was thinking as you teed the ball up when we played!!!!. I simply bashed it over, duffed a chip, stuck the next stone dead and wandered off with a net par, only to get mugged on count back

Haha i genuinely didnt think i was within an asses roar of it Martin , was in a good place after paring 14/15/16/17 despite the 3 putt par on 17 .. but was sure id blown it around the turn ..

 

[MendieGK]

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

I literally hit 2iron 8iron every time. Even into wind I hit 2iron

 

[upsidedown]

I literally hit 2iron 8iron every time. Even into wind I hit 2iron

First time for me was 4 iron and second was 3 wood, topped then 3 wood just short of green

 

[RGDave]

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

By the looks of it, an old rusty 2 iron with 15 yards of fade (slice) looks ideal.
Then a rapier drawn 4 iron on the double breaking fairway.

Easy.

 

[FairwayDodger]

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

I thought that was one of the widest fairways i've ever seen! Just about impossible to miss. Probably a bit trickier from the very back tees....

 

[ScienceBoy]

The now closed 9 hole near me had two choices of tee shot, a short iron to the fairway or drive over a copse of trees.

Standing on the tee all you could see was trees, bushes and a marker pole for the iron shot.

 

[SHiiBBZ]

Every single hole at Tilgate Forest GC. It's so bloody difficult.

 

[Deleted member 21258]

I think the tightest tee shot I have ever played(if going for the green, as a really short par 4) was the 10th on the Jubilee Course at Three Rivers:-

http://www.threeriversclub.com/jubilee10-18.php

Needless to say I never got on the green or don't think I ever hit the 'fairway' the few times I played the course.

 

[TheJezster]

I think the tightest hole I've played is at my home course, the par 3 12th at Wimbledon common. It's 240 yards tree lined both sides. Slight fade and you're in the trees, pull it slightly left and you're in the trees. And being 240 yards you've got to hit it well, but too well and you're through the green with an uphill chip back (if you haven't overshot completely and gone into the bushes). It's one seriously tough hole, a real card wrecker. A 3 is brilliant, you'd take a 4 anytime on the tee

 

[Captainron]

I thought that was one of the widest fairways i've ever seen! Just about impossible to miss. Probably a bit trickier from the very back tees....

If you've seen me drive, then you'll know that even the widest fairways are elusive 😂

 

[srixon 1]

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)

I know what you mean, but I was just replying to the question. Don't play there often enough with varying winds to suss out the correct tee shot. Usually just hit 3 wood down there.

 

[patricks148]

TBH, i can't think of a single hole on a golf course that is Ive though was too tight!!

 

[srixon 1]

The 2nd at Woodlake Park. Now that is just stupid.

 

[Monkey Putter]

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.

I think it's the 12 that Oak Park which has the stupid right-to-left sloping fairway that you can never hold (the 11th has the blind shot to the green at the bottom of the hill)

Four silly holes that don't suit the rest of the course at all.

 

[FairwayDodger]

If you've seen me drive, then you'll know that even the widest fairways are elusive 😂

:rofl:

 

[MendieGK]

I know what you mean, but I was just replying to the question. Don't play there often enough with varying winds to suss out the correct tee shot. Usually just hit 3 wood down there.

The safe shot is to aim at the hill at 260yds odd that cuts into the fairway, and stay short of it.

Yes it leaves you a blind approach into the green, but the only place you cannot go off that tee is left.

 

[chrisd]

My home clubs 13th is a short par 4 and the first hundred yards or so is through a tunnel of trees, I guess no more than 20 paces wide. It opens out to the right once you've hit through but the left side is still tight with a dense wood. Off the front tee I will take a driver and can occasionally get on but from the back whites it's a hybrid or iron

 

[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!

Duncan's post in the Beckenham Palace thread just reminded me of that Kent course's name - Poult Wood!

 

[Wildrover]

One that sticks in my memory is the 14th(?) at National GC in Belek Turkey, it's a long par4 where you drive over a blind crest, there's water left and bushes right, very tough. Even if you hit a good one you are left with a longish approach to a green that sit's at an angle out into the lake.

 

[Hosel Fade]

I think the tightest hole I've played is at my home course, the par 3 12th at Wimbledon common. It's 240 yards tree lined both sides. Slight fade and you're in the trees, pull it slightly left and you're in the trees. And being 240 yards you've got to hit it well, but too well and you're through the green with an uphill chip back (if you haven't overshot completely and gone into the bushes). It's one seriously tough hole, a real card wrecker. A 3 is brilliant, you'd take a 4 anytime on the tee

That is the one I was thinking of, utterly stupid hole. When I play there again (probably London Scottish winter open) I am hitting a 5 iron anywhere short and then a putter just to get it anywhere on the green

Just remembered somewhere else really narrow, Dougalston north of glasgow has a hole that is just a corridor