Worst Course You ever played

Not to offend anyone and drum up negative publicity, I was thinking the other day what are some of the bad courses other people have played.

the Layout was decent, but the grounds were not all that well maintained, cart paths were built for jeeps not golf carts, the one water hazard had green slime like a swamp on it. the One thing I have to sa was most commendable was the grounds crew, On the start of the back nine they were moving the lawn and removing fertilizer every spot that we would play on that hole wether it was from the tee to the fair way, to the green they would shut their engines down. It was like having your own little pga tour, I didnt expect them to stop for me but it was really nice they di

I won't mention it specifically but describing it should explain why it was bad!

Six of the front nine were in what amounted to a large open expanse cut fairly short with the first few holes playing back and forth down the area moving across it. Only a string of fairly young trees separated the 'fairways' between these holes. After four holes there were a few par 3s playing across the back. The greens were, frankly horrible. Many were diseased (one was about 80% black!) and dried out, yet some had grass that hadn't been cut for a day or so and it was quite long by putting green standards.

In fairness to them a couple of holes were in a little annex and did seem newer and a bit more designed, one even had a hint of a dogleg, and the greens were in slightly better shape.

No bunkers and no water hazards either! Thankfully it was dirt cheap, about $5 for 9 holes, but I'd never go back. I can get 18 holes on a proper municipal for $18.

I edited my last post to protect the guilty, but as you mention bunkers man the sand at the course i described was like hittingof black top, but black top has more give

It was in Cuernavaca, Mexico. It has been raining a lot so they hadn't cut the fairways because if they enter with the machine they can destroy some parts of the course. So all fairways looks like rough. In fact there was no fairway, the ball sinks in the rough and it was all wet. The greens are like a concrete carpet, they don't recieve anything, so the ball gets out of the green and then you have to make an approach.

The course is short, is a 9 holes par 35. But I scored like a 47 because it was so wet that the balls sometimes ended buried in the grass so I can't find them. It was a complete mess and a bad experience.

Regards!

Sharp park in pacifica,fairways is like playing out of the rough if you can find your ball with all the white daisy's and as for the greens,try and putt a ball,it bounces all over the place on the lumps and hollows,plus they are brutal slow greens.layout of the course is great if only the place was maintained and the greens were dug out and replaced.

There is a local course around here that charges between $30-$40 to play...depending on weekday/weekend.

I love the layout and the fairways and tees are usually fine but they always have a few greens that are lost.

I measure a course by it's greens....they are the heart and soul as far as I'm concerned.

Here is a website someone made up about the worst course I ever played. The fact that someone took the time to make a website dedicated to how sh*tty it is says something.

http://www.bannerlodgegolf.com/

Well worth reading the hole descriptions.

A few years ago I played a course in South Dakota that was in such bad shape it was unplayable. The area was in a bad drought so they didn't water fairways... In fact, there were NO fairways. The grass everywhere was totally brown and there were these little patches of green out in the fairway. After getting close, these green patches where cactus, where the freaken fairways should be... Yup, the thorns stuck to your golf shoes socks and push cart(they allowed no golf carts on the course because of fear of fire... yup it was that dry).

The greens were all terrible and sort of cone shaped with the center higher then the edges.

This course was so bad that it made the pics of banner lodge(on the posted site) look like Hilton Head.

I'm a golf and an airplane nut but in some cases the two do not mix. There's a golf course here in Puget Sound that is located right under the Seattle-Tacoma International runways. The day I went out the wind was such that the planes were landing over the course. Every two minutes a plane was overhead and they were so close on some of the holes that you could feel the vortexes and see the Dave Clark's on the pilots. We aren't talking Piper Cubs or Cessna 150's or Bonanzas. We are talking 737's, 757's, Embraer's, MD-80's and the odd 747. To make matters more lovely because landing procedures were such we were downwind. This meant we could smell the Jet fuel from the planes that were landing and taxiing into position for takeoff. The smell of kerosene is a thing to behold whilst playing a round. Did I mention they were taking off a few hundred yards away too? Talk about having to block out out noise distractions before a stroke. Oh yeah, the course was being torn up and moved around to accomodate the construction of the airport's third runway. #3 was #12 and #12 was #8 or something like that. There was no signage and I was lucky that an elderly local had caught up to me and could give me tips on where to aim and more importantly where the next hole was. He regaled me with tales of having his car stolen out of the course parking lot the week before and also once being chased around in a cart and nearly having the crap beaten out of him by two large native Islanders because he accidentally hit into them. Did I mention the fairways were in full bloom with little white flowers? I love the extra special challenge of trying to find my tiny white golf ball in the middle of a seas of white. After what I believed was #9 the local dropped out and I headed to #10. It was there finally caught up to the foursome that I noticed that was playing on LPGA time. That is 5 minutes per shot per player. I decided I could not wait any longer and skipped to what I was thought was #18. Between the sounds, smells and the fact that I began to fear for my being and my vehicle I decided to cut my losses and head back to familiar and safe surroundings. The moral of the story is new strange golf courses are like a box of choclates: You never quite know what you are going to get but don't let it stop you from trying them.

I read above about "Banner Lodge" and was about to try to write something "witty" about how I would play there for a vacation destination... When at the last second I realized that it is in Connecticut. And Holy $#it ! It's within driving distance from my house!... Too bad, it's just too far away. Crestbrook, my partner's home couse this week and Oxford greens on 10/4... I'm just too busy. Maybe next year... ~T

It's just THAT bad. So bad, it's worth playing once to say you have. The greens were so slow it was like putting in shag carpeting. The only place where grass grows is in the rough. It's a good laugher.

If the course is that bad, why does this guy keep playing it??? If I play something that bad, I just don't go back.

Clearview. They don't have a website, but it reminds me of Banner Logdes long-lost twin brother.

9 hole/3par course at the Marriot resort in El Segundo, California;

http://www.golflink.com/golf-courses...course=1235956

The course it to the rear of the Hotel, it's as follows......

**first tee box is next to patio of rbar, drunk idiots yell in your backswing
**Golf course shares space with California Edison transformers and power lines, nothing like the meter man getting pissed at you for playing golf on the golf course while he does his job
**no drainage, don't walk into any ditches
**No tee boxes, hit off of range mats that are way past their prime
**sewage drains on the fairways of hole 5 and 6.....I guess that's motivation to hit a GIR.

-AJ

I haven't got the SLIGHTEST idea. The only reason I played it this year was because there was a charity tournament there that I was asked to play on.

It's a real travesty, because the property is beautiful and the hole layouts are pretty decent. The conditions are ... well ... unbelievably bad.

I was wondering the same thing. Research for his website perhaps, it was after all, quite detailed

Worst course I've ever played is supposedly the northernmost course in the world, outside of Fairbanks, Alaska.

I had to be able to say I played that course, but it was dreadful. It was like a pasture and some of the so-called greens were a farce, more like bump and bump. I can picture one of them that was ridiculously small and not even recognizable as a green. It had a big ugly mound behind it.

Granted, this was summer 1995. Perhaps it's improved.

Fortunately, the two that top my list have both been closed (actually, one closed completely and the other has been rebuilt into a new course with 14 of the 18 holes changed).

The worst ever was Harry Pritchett Memorial at The University of Alabama. I played probably 20 rounds there in my life and always left there feeling like I had been beaten up. Some of the highlights included:

* A double-dogleg par four;
* Three holes on the front side that played over a ravine; however, the ravine was too big on one of those holes, meaning you had no choice but to hit your drive into the face of it and then play your second shot uphill at about a 30- to 45-degree angle. It was someone's attempt at playing downhill, then uphill, but the layout didn't work. At least they cut it at fairway length;
* One hole had a fairway that sloped dead left into OOB at a steep angle, so even if you hit a good shot, by the time it stopped rolling, it wasn't a good shot anymore. Plus, the tee boxes got redesigned and moved once and they didn't tell anyone where the new boxes were, so we had teed off in the wrong place by the time we figured out what was going on. And, the approach to the green was blind.

The other course, in the same town (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) was Mimosa Park. No irrigation system on the course, anywhere. The No. 1 green was just a circle where they'd cut the fairway at half-length. Sign on the fence off the No. 1 tee read "Golfers going into the pasture to retrive balls will be removed from course." Yes, there were cows there. No. 18 was a tee off over water, then an approach shot back over water -- irrigation ditches protected by dike walls, and if you hit too close to them, you stood a real chance of hitting the face of the wall with your subsequent shot.

Why did I play these places? For many years, it was all Tuscaloosa had (now it has two very good courses, Hidden Meadows and Ol' Colony, a Jerry Pate design). Plus, Mimosa was like $12 to ride 18.

Jess