Hardest Hole At Your Home Course!!

[jamesbei]

Whats the hardest hole at your home course,


6th hole- 402 not the longest but you can only hit 200-220 as you first shot as it is a 90* dogleg- second shot uphill to a three tiered V.narrow green, and both sides of the fairways are tree-lined, my least favorite hole when it comes to MEDAL DAY!!!!!

[MrKadash]

418 yard par 4 with a lower level fairway to 255 yards then a 6 foot rise to the approach fairway. Almost always going against the prevailing winds, even the longest hitters can't carry the tee shot to the upper tier, so the second is almost always anywhere from 140-170 against the wind to a blind green that slopes away from you and to the left. Par is a great score, and I would hazard to guess out of 12,000 rounds/year, this hole might be birdied 150 times tops. I know I've birdied it 6 times in the 11 years I've been there.

[Dent]

467 Yard Par 4, Hardest Hole in the province, A little dogleg left, with a huge slope infront of the green, and then having 2 levels of the green, an upperlevel with a 3 ft slope down to the lowest part of the green, very hard if the pin is at the top.

[Spectrums]

#7 - Par 5, 503 yards

Not a sure long par 5, but you need to be killer accurate. It's a dead straight hole for about 350 yards, and then it slightly doglegs left about 15 degrees. Both sides are tree lined with trees about 100 ft tall. Thus, you can't shape a shot over them (unless playing from the blacks). There is a creek about 100 yards away from the green and most of the time you are forced to layup to about 120 for your third to an uphill green sloping back to front. Bunkers line the back and the right side of the green.

It's not a fun hole during a match.

[twotacosfor99cents]

This hole:



#7, 486 yard par 5. Extreme left dogleg, and only the best faded driver shot will get you in contention for the green. There's a set of LARGE oak trees that protect the fairway past the left dogleg - but it's hittable. When Tiger plays this hole, he can hit over the trees - it's a 280-290 yard high shot to get over the trees to make it to the green in two. The green is like the hood of a car - shots that land on the green usually roll off, or you get it into the bunker. For me, I almost always overshoot the green after I lay it up for shot #3 and go into the OB in the back of the green (creek).

There are a lot of overhanging oaks around the green as well, so if you get one under an oak tree, it's punch shot time. The 2nd shot is a difficult one as well, because the space where you make your 3rd attempt is very narrow with DEEP rough on either end. I've never made par here. Never.

[Habersham Golf]

It is listed as the 2nd hardest hole on the handicap, but it plays the hardest.

#8 486 yard par 5. I is deceivingly straight forward. Elevated tee box with a very slight dogleg right that only comes into play on your second shot if you don't put it out there far enough on the drive. The rest of the hole plays uphill gaining about 15 feet in elevation from the fairway to the green. If that weren't enough, the prevailing wind is ALWAYS in your face.

So, 486 yards uphill with a constant wind in your face makes it feel a lot longer than it really is. It is the only hole on the course that makes me wish I had about an 8* driver because with my 10.5* driver I just watch that ball catch the wind, stall and fall out of the sky nearly straight down.

[lamebums]

There's a lot of hard holes. But one that particularly stands out is #10 of The Willows. The course I'm a member of is actually three courses, 54 holes in all.

It's 430 yards from the blues, straight as an arrow, about 150 to a fairway that slopes right to left almost the whole way. There's a line of trees high and on the right that discourage you from hanging the shot too far out to the right, however miss left and you've got nothing because you're down at the bottom of a 40 foot ravine.

The wind can come from any direction, but you need a good drive to get within range of the green in two--it's across a valley and then up the next hill to the green, which is about level with the tee box (although probably higher than where you hit your second shot from). There's a large sand trap behind the green, but I can only recall ever being in there once.

The green is the real killer--it's borderline unfair (I take that back. It is unfair.) Anything on the front right side of the green will roll off the front, even if you placed a ball there odds are it would roll off and halfway down the hill. The last place you want to be with a front right pin location is back right, because it's all downhill and if you either sink it or pull out your wedge again.

The front left is almost as bad if the pin's up there. Anything left is bad, too--it slopes down towards a patch of cabbage.

More often than not I double this hole, taking three or four shots to get down from 20 yards. And it happens to everybody I've played with. I only birdied this hole once, and that's when I chipped it in.

It's rated as the #2 handicap hole.

Edit: From the whites it's 420 yards, and from the red, 402. That is probably offset because the back tees are further up the hill than the others, so older guys and women don't get much of a break, either.