Your dreaded hole

I mentioned my course in an earlier post and it got me thinking. What hole on your course is *the dreaded hole* or just the hardest for you?? I'm curious to see other peoples home course's worst holes.

If you don't have a picture a description would do fine. This is mine.



I don't play from the tips *thank god* so for me it's 485 yards vs 544. The fairway is as narrow as it looks. A shot missing right is in the Creek/woods retee. A shot missing left is in the woods just as bad. If you manage a nice straight drive down the fareway you have to lay up, or if your 300 yards up you can try to fade a shot 185 to very well protected green.

I usually lay up, If I miss right I'm behind woods/creek. If I miss left I'm also in the trees. If I hit it a little long it's in the creek . If the drive went well and the lay up went well I have 80-100 yards to the hole. On this shot both short, left and right shots are all rehits so I'm usually pretty nervous if I'm here and not on shot 6 already .

A lot of the holes on the course are like this but I always dread this one for some reason, anyway lets hear some of yours.

Hit from the red, to the blue..I'm always afraid of the water, so I hit it a bit harder than I should, and end up on the yellow section, which is a steep hill with tall weeds on it.

Not too scary or dreaded, but the water freaks me out

Good topic! On my local course I hate the 9th hole, it's an absolute bastard of a thing.

It's an uphill par 4 of 428 yards, but the fairway is kikuyu and generally quite soft so there is NO run. The green is tiny, raised back left and right and bunkered left and slopes severely back to front and is impossibly steep for about the first 5 yards, lob it on the front and it always rolls off. Basically miss the green and if you can get up and down 4 times out of 10 you are a magician, trust me I'm VERY good around the greens and I have spent hours and hours chipping pitching and putting from everywhere around the 9th and 4 or 5 times out of 10 is my average, even then it's freak show stuff to get 50%!

The number one problem I have with the hole is hitting the fairway with anything longer than a 2 iron. In the landing area for a driver the fairway is only 19 yards wide, you do however get a bonus 4 yards or so of thick kikuyu rough either side of that before you go in to the trees on the right or water on the left. The trees are no place to be either, they are very tall she oaks placed very close together, get it in there and you are chipping out sideways or backwards.

So instead of hitting driver I'll usually knock a 2 iron up the middle, problem with that is it leaves you with another 2 or 3 iron in to the previously described postage stamp green!

Basically I've given up on hitting the green, when I get to the 9th I play it as a par 5 where I lay up off the tee. I've made almost equal numbers of 4's, 5's and 6's on the hole with a couple of 7's and 6 birdies, 2 of the birdies were chip ins.

My Stats for the hole
Rounds: 112
Avg Score: 4.84
Fairways: 57.6%
GIR: 21.2%

Keep in mind that I can play a bit too, the course is a par 70 and my average score there over 122 rounds is 71.2, give me a par on the 9th every time and I have almost averaged even par!

this one always gives me trouble... I never execute a good lay-up off the tee and am usually left with a long shot from a bad lie into a difficult green.

http://www.warriorgolf.com/hole7.asp

Sorry no picture. But the 13th hole at my local course is brutal. I loathe this hole. Par 4 that only measures about 385 from the tips. You need to shape it off the tee, left to right, very little room to land your ball. No room for a driver. Maybe a 3 wood, hybrid, some guys hit long irons. Position is key.

Approach is straight uphill to a small undulating green that slopes away from you. Very difficult to choose a club and control distance. I'll take bogey and happily move on.

No pic, but 18 at Lakeside (my home course) kills me. Its a downhill 90* dogleg left with water along the bottom of the hill (where the hole turns left) and around the green. Hit driver and im in the water. Hit any club to get me within 150 yards and I have a side hill (sloping to the water) lie for my approach to the green. Try and cut the dogleg and avoid the water and you bring the driving range into play.

To make things worse the green is sloped hard away from the lake with all sorts of undulation. My not be that hard a hole, but I make it that way every time I play it.

Number 2 at Van Cortlandt Golf Course (its called Babe Ruth - I wonder why?) - 608 yds from the tips, blue dot in lower left - kinda hard to see cuz the tee box is partially covered by trees. The fairway is elevated when compared to the tee box as well as to the adjacent hole to the left...so missing left is trouble. Even more trouble is right which is basically just trees then a highway. Aim your tee shot to be just left of the fronts (red). If you're lucky, you might carry it over the hump for good position. If not, don't even think about going for it in two (I never have reached this green in two anyway...I doubt most pros would make it either!).

well i am gonna pick two holes one on the front nine and one on the back nine.

Front 9: Number 4 511 yard par 5. Rather easy fairway to hit although it does slope alot to the right from 200 in. But the green is the dreaded thing on this hole. It looks innocent but if you hit the green with an approach shot you will go off the green 9 out of 10 times. And that makes the putting ridiculous too.

Back 9: Number 2 334 par 4. Hole is all uphill so it plays alot longer. Green is very elevated. If your approach shot hits the back side of the green and sits all you have to do is tap and i mean TAP the ball and it will roll off the fron of the green. If you hit it way to hard and it rolls off with speed you could be 10 yards off the green by the time it is done.

17 at Cypress Creek in Smithfield VA. A 420 yard uphill dog leg left par 4 with no room for error of the tee, the left side runs down to the creek and the right side is tree lined, tee shot must carry the marsh. There are two bunkers of each side of the fairway that will grab your ball if it is not in the fairway with OB ouside the bunkers. Even if you find the fairway with a good tee shot, you still have in the 200+ yard range to a green that is well protected by a front left bunker and a bunker short right for those who hit the weak slice, bogey is usually a great score and many times double bogey will win this hole.

No pic but here is a google map link: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q=en&g...04807;&t;=h&z;=18

Hole 16, no picture though. Narrow fairway off the tee, and then about 280 yds off the tee, there is tall weeds, etc. about 60 yds deep. I hit a low ball and rely on roll for yardage, and on this hole it never rolls.

I end up hitting my 3W about 220, with then 120 yards just to carry the sh.t and then another 100 yards to the green. So I hit a 3H, and I end up catching the sh.t because of my low ball flight.

Number 17 for me. Par 4: 375 yards.

Huge bay of water on the right side, leaves you a fairway on the left thats about 20 yards wide. And further left its lined by bunkers.

You have to hit a fade off the tee, and then the front of the green is guarded by more bunkers. And the green is so hard.

From my old course:
http://www.newburygolf.co.uk/8.htm

You'll struggle to make GIR even with a really decent tee shot as there are plenty of trees and rough off to the left. There's also a stream right where the ideal place to drive to is. Although S.I. 4 it always had the highest average score in tournaments.

Hole #10 at our course. Monster par five with a huge drop down off of a cliff that always scares the heck out of me lol

We have a dogleg right par 4 that is either lay up about 200 yards off the tee, in which case you will be tree-hooked with your approach, or attempt a 220 yard carry over a creek. The carry isn't really a problem, but the trouble left and right is. I have to hit a pretty straight shot, else I will be OB left or in the creek on the right or (if I hook it badly) on the wrong side of the creek, forcing me to go through or over a fairly tall and thick tree line to get to the fairway. Being a lefty, the OB left is my nemesis. I feel like Phil at Winged Foot every time I step on that tee.

Only a newbie member here, but what a great topic. Exactly why I joined the site (and to soak in all the info here and bring that handicap down).

Since my home course is 36 holes (27 now 9 more opening this summer) I am going to have to choose to holes that kill me.

East 2 (Buffalo Jump) - Not too long of a hole, with a slight dogleg left, however reaching the green in two is near impossible (I've never done it) Right when the dogleg starts the fairway drops about 50 feet. Meaning if you hit your drive over 280 you most likely finish on a massive downslope meaning I top the ball going for 2. Or I hit it about 250 to the top of the hill and don't have the power to clear the massive creek running in front of the green.

West 2 (Sod Wall) - Standing at the tee and nothing between you and the fairway except a 200 yard crater. This alone wouldn't be so bad, but the opening through the tree lined crater to the fairway is extremely narrow.

Home course is in java so not a separate link to each hole, but here is an interactive application that lets you click through each hole and view them that way.

http://www.wolfcreekgolf.com/Course.cfm

Hole #9 at the local muni I play sometimes. It's considered one of the hardest holes in all of vegas.

Par 4 398 yards

Slight dogleg right with water all along the right side stretching to just short of the green. The left side is pretty safe, but gives you a bad angle at the tiny green with water behind, left and front (on a false front green). The only safe approach shot is to stick it on the center of the green. Anywhere else you are wet or OB. The hardest part of this hole has to be the size of the green.

Needless to say, I've only par'd this hole twice. One off a lucky bounce with the rocks in front of the green that managed to pop my ball up to 10ft from the hole.

No pic, but it wouldn't matter if I did have one because it wouldn't show the elevation changes.


Vanity Fair Golf & Tennis Club, Monroeville, Ala., #9: It's about 380 from the main tees but it plays like 420+, and you can make it play like 500 if you're an idiot off the tee.

The hole leaves the tees and opens up into an incredibly wide fairway -- and also dives downhill about 40-60 feet, I'm guessing, from tee level. It then doglegs left slightly, and goes back up hill 40-60 feet. In other words, tee and green are on a level, with the fairway well below both.

If you find the left side of the fairway off the tee, you can get your second shot to a manageable length, say 150 yards. Smash hitters who get lucky can get in closer, but their second shot will then be on a big upslope.

However, if you're in the righthand side of the fairway (and by righthand, I mean as much as 80 yards wide at its widest point), your second shot will be 200-220 as the crow flies AND uphill 40-60 feet. I can't get enough height on my longest fairway club (3 wood) to navigate that.

Oh, and with the green being 40-60 feet above your head, naturally, you can't see the green the closer you get to it because of the upslope. So you're firing blindly into this thing, and there are a couple of traps up there, and the green is pitched in your face (I've seen guys super-spin one off the green and back down into the fairway 130 yards before, because once it gets to the lip of the slope it won't stop running until it gets all the way back to the landing area). And once you get on the green, there's more hidden break in that one green than in any five other greens on the course.

I've probably played 300+ rounds of golf at that course. I have one birdie, less than 10 pars and everything else is bogey or worse.

Jess

#6 on the Bentwater Weiskoph course is a 487 yard par 4 and it is near impossible to reach it in 2 for me because my long iron game is crap, maybe since I got my new hybrid that hole wont be suck a biotch.