What is your 18th like?

[louise_a]

I been looking at my scores for this season and every time I have been threatening my handicap, I have doubled bogied the last.

It is a tricky par 3, with a steep bank in front of the green, which normally sends anything short down into a stream, trees and bunkers protect both sides and there is OOB a few yards over the back.




So what is your 18th like? is it a straight forward hole or a regular score destroyer?

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Regular card destroyer - tough narrow tee shot with deep woods both sides.

Then big sloping fairway onto a raised green which has two teers protected by a tree and a bunker short.

Add 16 and 17 into the equation and cards are regularly destroyed on just those three

 

[JackieD]

Long dogleg right par 4.

MASSIVE over hanging oaktree on the corner of the dogleg.

 

[IanG]

The tougher 16th and 17th have usually put paid to a good score by the time you reach 18 at our place.

In principle it is a straightforward short par 4 which is almost drivable with a tail wind. The scary bit is the line of expensive cars along the right side of the fairway, once you get past the big lounge window of Catriona Matthews house.
In reality there is loads of room on the left and that is the best line in anyhow so there should be little difficulty. The green, once you're on it, is refreshingly flat for a links course so yields its fair share of birdies. All in all a benign finishing hole.

 

[Stuey01]

430 yard par 4 which plays longer for shorter hitters as it is a steep rise from the tee shot. You need to carry it 250 up the hill to get over the top get some roll and have a mid iron in. Most people are pitching into the slope and getting little to no roll and therefore hitting a wood or hybrid second shot and still not getting there. Only thing helping is that the prevailing wind is assisting so if there is any wind it's assisting. Days when it blows the other way it is a par 5 for most!
Par is an excellent score. In fact 17 is tough as well most people would jump at it if you offered them a 5 on each at the outset.

 

[Slab]

Put this up on a previous thread but this 18th is a score wrecker for me too

Distances in meters


From the whites it needs two very clean shots to get the green and it slopes back towards the cludge and is far more inaccessible than the pic shows, then two putts needed on a very good putting day

Par has eluded me so far

 

[guest100718]

350 par 4 or a 155 yd par 3. neither that tough.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Uphill par 5 of 531 yards. OB right although it takes a pretty big slice to get there. Ditch around 240 yard. Second shot needs to be left. Pond guards the right of the green and cuts into the right corner so more room the further left you can go. One of the biggest problems is it always plays into the wind. It isn't a real toughie (and I get a shot) but a par is never guaranteed

 

[CheltenhamHacker]

391 yard, straight, par 4 to a raised green.

Most times I play it, seems to be into the wind, and plays long!

Not that thin a fairway, trees/rough down the left (unless you're so far left you're over that) and the practice ground to the right for the high slices (interestingly, still in play....)

The last few times I've played this, managed to par it, but normally for me it's a tough par 4, which is weird as it isn't actually that long or hard!

 

[Deleted member 18588]

The tougher 16th and 17th have usually put paid to a good score by the time you reach 18 at our place.

In principle it is a straightforward short par 4 which is almost drivable with a tail wind. The scary bit is the line of expensive cars along the right side of the fairway, once you get past the big lounge window of Catriona Matthews house.
In reality there is loads of room on the left and that is the best line in anyhow so there should be little difficulty. The green, once you're on it, is refreshingly flat for a links course so yields its fair share of birdies. All in all a benign finishing hole.

Don't go giving the game away!

I birdied your 18th and ever since have been telling my mates what a tricky hole it was. Now the truth is out.

Our own 18th is a par 3, well bunkered and, due to having a longish narrow green can play between 130-135 yards through to nearly 160. Should be straightforward enough but like all final holes can all go horribly wrong when you have a half decent card going.

 

[FairwayDodger]

Probably the toughest hole on the course.

Very tight drive with trees on both sides. Only 346 yards (off the reds) but uphill all the way so plays much longer than that. Heavily bunkered around the green, OB left of the green (practice ground) or over the green (car park) although neither of those should really be in play!

A long, straight drive is essential. I have been on the green with drive and 8 iron but that was exceptional, more often going in with 5i/4i/5w. It's a difficult green to hit in two. If you don't find the fairway with a reasonably long drive, I increasingly think laying up is the smart option.

I never expect to par this hole, 5 isn't a disaster here. Last month, in my fourth year at the club, I birdied it for the first time..... more due to a great putt than anything else.

 

[BrizoH71]

For me, it's harder than it should be...

Par-5 with bunkers down the right within driving distance, and a trio of ponds that run diagonally across the front of the green, but with a safe zone betwen them and the green of around 80 yards.

Miss the bunkers left and you've a nice layup short of the ponds and little more than a 9i into a relatively large, flat green protected either side by bunkers.

It should be straight-forward, but I usually make a huge mess of it, and I've only one parred it.

 

[evahakool]

Ours is a 360 dog leg left from a elevated tee, loch all the way on the left to the green,280 to carry the loch to the green and yes I've seen a good few drive the green,not a easy finishing hole with a card in your hand.

The SGU describe this hole as one of the best finishing holes in Scotland.

 

[chrisd]

194 yard, slightly uphill, par 3. OOB round most of the back, bunker front, left and right. A good par if you make it!

 

[c1973]

Par 4. Quite difficult to make out the fairway from the tee, first shot over a burn, bunker to the right and two to the left (one doubles with the 1st), 2 greenside bunkers either side (1 on the left quite steep), rough all around the other one, bit of a hidden dip at the front of the green and clubhouse to the rear.

Hit the fairway from the tee and you have a straightforward 2nd, provided you don't over club and land in the clubhouse (10ft behind the green). Do that and even I can be putting for birdie. If you miss the fairway either side however then the fairway bunkers can catch you, you still get a shot at the green but the greenside ones are in play for your approach.

A good hole that can play reasonably easy but if you switch off on it you could be looking at saving a bogey! A decent tee shot is the key imo. Not the hardest hole on the course, but more than capable of putting a dampener on a good round.

Edit: Wind is usually right to left, slightly into you........thankfully the sun is usually on your shoulder!

 

[Birchy]

Ours is tough and I have seen many people come undone. Its a par 4 just over 400 yards virtually always into the wind.

Sunken tee up to a raised fairway. There is a ditch around 240 so you need to carry it 270 ish to get over that which is out for nearly everyone. Theres is OB all down the left side. The fairway slopes down towards the ditch as well so If you do manage to find the fairway you've got a downhill lie with around 170 to the green not taking into account the wind.

Theres is OB over the back of the green and there is bunkers left, right and back.

 

[Spear-Chucker]

Risk and reward hole, only 363yds.

OOB all up the right hand side and woods/rough on the left. It's an hourglass shape with a crest and bunker at the pinch-point. Slight bail out area to the right to allow the shorter hitters an escape but you're in the rough.

The uphill drive is blind (there's a marker) and the downhill second shot to the green flirts with three bunkers around the green and water/large trees behind the usually quite receptive large green which gently slopes away from you. One of the biggest hazards is thick rough to the left of the green (only a few yds away) which causes more duffed chips than we've all had hot dinners.

If you can hit a nice straight drive there's a very good chance for a score. Failure to do so and a bogie looks great. I've had big scores as well as chipped on for dead cert birdie in dry running conditions.

 

[Curls]

http://www.sleafordgolfclub.co.uk/course-gallery.html

Last photo.

What I love: THe fact you can sit (or outside) the clubhouse with a drink and watch the players fire in. The fact that with a tailwind I once drove the green.

What I hate. OOB all down the left, lost quite a few in there, sorta feeds that way from the tee box cos there's big trees on the right. The green slopes loads and gets lightening fast, making birdies tricky. Made manys the par there. Made manys the 6, 7, 8, 9, 10....

 

[guest100718]

350 par 4 or a 155 yd par 3. neither that tough.

Actually our 18ths are incredibly hard and I would never take a good score for granted... I say this as we have comp Sunday and they are probably listening......

 

[davidy233]

The tougher 16th and 17th have usually put paid to a good score by the time you reach 18 at our place.

In principle it is a straightforward short par 4 which is almost drivable with a tail wind. The scary bit is the line of expensive cars along the right side of the fairway, once you get past the big lounge window of Catriona Matthews house.
In reality there is loads of room on the left and that is the best line in anyhow so there should be little difficulty. The green, once you're on it, is refreshingly flat for a links course so yields its fair share of birdies. All in all a benign finishing hole.

Agree with all of that Ian - I pulled my tee shot and was cursing until the brother in law told me it was the better line in - the location in the town is what makes the hole, like the 18th at St Andrews it would be ordinary without that - there's loads of holes with character at your place