Post something about an interesting hole you've encountered

Here is an interesting hole I encountered in my travels 2 days ago

I'm interested in seeing or reading about any interesting holes you may have come across as well

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To be honest I don't see that as interesting as much as I see it as gimmicky.  Not being able to see the green is poor design, unless it's uphill and you mean that you just can't see the putting surface, but the flagstick is visible.  I played one (Evergreen Golf Course in Evergreen, Colorado) where you hit over a projecting rock face on a small hill and the only way you know the general direction of the green is because of an arrow painted on the rock.  I consider that to be more worthy of a putt-putt course than real golf.

The blue circle is the tee box and the red one is the rock you have to hit over.  The rock is about 20-30 feet high if my memory serves me correctly, and the shot is about 100 yards.

What one person finds interesting, another may not. I get that. The picture I posted doesn't do it any justice. It's quite a beautiful view when you are actually viewing it from the ground.

I think they are both gimmicky now the he started it! :-) How about this one I played, 3 par, Gatlinburg, TN Muni. Calculate club from the cliff elevation drop. Not many ball marks on the green.

A location can be beautiful and still not be a particularly great golf hole.  Why is it that you can't see the green?  What blocks the view?

This is the 13th hole at Arrowhead Golf Club in Roxborough, CO  I don't know how much the drop is, but the cart path swithchbacks 2 or 3 times on the way down.  This is shot from the tee I was playing.  187 yards and I never hit more than an 8I, even back in the mid 80's.

The green from the hole I posted can't be seen because the cat-tail reeds surrounding the lake are too high

BTW - The picture of the hole you just posted is a hole I consider to be both interesting and beautiful. It's natural beauty makes it unboring.

Very nice. I love the view. Not in anyway boring

This one is a par 5, 542 yards.  The line indicates the designed path - as you can see, the hole almost doubles back on itself.  Tee shot is about 260 yards slightly downhill, and it's easy to run through the fairway and actually lose the ball as you can't see the landing area through the rise where the bunker is sitting.  The second is still slightly downhill. 165 yards and that bit of fairway looks like a postage stamp lying between the hazards - like trying to play to an island green.  Third shot is only about 115 yards, but it's steeply uphill and you can only see the top of the flagstick.  You can lay up short of the pond on your second, but that leaves 190 yards up a steep hill, and try as I might I've never made it even to the greenside bunkers.

I've played the hole more than a dozen times and never made par.  Last summer I was actually on the green in 4 and two putted for a bogey and felt like celebrating.  The course lies between 8000 and 9000 feet in Rockies, so 542 yards shouldn't be that intimidating, but this hole always has my number.  I'll be up there again at the end of the month, and try it again.

The Google Earth image must have been taken after a late spring snowstorm, as you can see patches of snow here and there.  That isn't normal for most of the season when the course is open.

Is it a par four or 5? How many yards is it?

Tough looking hole. Hope you can get on in three next time with some awesome shots

Here's a screenshot from the tee.  The landing area before the water is like 120yds, leaving over 200 to the hole, I think.

So the only real choice to is go over the trees, as we decided the water was too long of a carry and not the right angle to hit the fairway.  The landing spot I show here is 240yds or so, but the tree height isn't really reflected. Unless I'm just remembering it all wrong, we could not see the fairway at all, so we had to look at our phones. We were all baffled that day, but then again it was a college reunion drunken outing and our judgment might've been impaired.  But on only the 5th hole? Too early for that kind of impairment!

It was just an interesting hole, that's all. Not as cool as others presented here!

I think that any hole that presents an unusual challenge can be interesting.  Certainly that one Randall describes qualifies, when you have to play a blind drive over tall trees or lay up so short that the second is a real problem.

Thanks to 9wood for an interesting thread.  I hope that a few more folks will chime in with some interesting or unusual holes that present the player with a shot or strategy not normally encountered.

I'm still thinking about another par 5 on the same course as the one I posted above, but I'm not sure that it has quite enough going to qualify.  I can say that the hole is the only 530+ yard par 5 I ever played which is legitimately reachable for me in two, because it is is so steeply downhill that I can hit driver and 5W and be somewhere close to, if not on the the green.  However, with OB left and right, and the potential for a lost ball even if you don't stray far enough to hit OB, the hole is fraught with danger too.

Yah my hole wasn't as daunting as your par 5, but it is interesting when one of your carts has to circle back around to confirm that the tees are actually the correct ones for that hole- just seemed so geometrically off from a typical tee shot, based on a typical hole layout. None of us had played there before, and we thought the tees would be on the opposite side of the cart path, almost 100yds away.

But even going over the trees, the hole was actually somewhat easy (a half-decent drive would easily clear the woods- even if they blocked the view of the fairway). It was just unusual. We joked it was like hitting over the hotel at St Andrews. Just get your line and go over the obstruction.

Good luck parring your par 5 at the end of the month, @Fourputt . What a beast of a hole!

An alligator near your ball will make any hole interesting!

That's funny right there.   It reminds me of the "ant hill" at many putt putts.  I don't think I've ever aced one of those damn things.