Lets see your most loved or "hated" hole...

[rckwd]

Mine is this par 3....you better hit a 7 iron perfect or your going off the back or in the drink..

[Walther]

Wow! Fun looking hole! Nice of the designer to give you that bunker on the right if you bail out!

Here's my favorite. Par 3, 160 yards, about 100 feet elevated tee, creek short, and big two tier green that slopes back to front.

http://www2.truman.edu/~whowd/golf/number8.mov

[cougar978]

7th hole at Colonial Golf Club in Williamsburg - the picture doesn't do it justice, it's about 170 off the tips, downwind, downhill, into a green that's about 15 yards deep and usually runs about a 10-11 on the stimp. If you're above the hole, you're putting for par from off the green.

[rckwd]

That does look narly...shooting into those trees ...you automatically want to choose a lesser club

[rckwd]

Wow! Fun looking hole! Nice of the designer to give you that bunker on the right if you bail out!

How can I open this file....windows medi will not

[Walther]

How can I open this file....windows medi will not

Not sure, I have a Mac.

[Quinn07]

This is a par 3 at my course. The green slopes back to front, quite severely actually. You can actually spin or putt the ball right off the front if the pin is short. They took out a bunker that was originally on the slope/hill in front of the green. Not long, but lots of headaches if you aren't careful.

[rckwd]

This is a par 3 at my course. The green slopes back to front, quite severely actually. You can actually spin or putt the ball right off the front if the pin is short. They took out a bunker that was originally on the slope/hill in front of the green. Not long, but lots of headaches if you aren't careful.

Oh how beautiful...that is just plain beautiful

[Dub]

RCWD...that looks like a wicke hole.....reminds me somewhat of a par 3 at Goshen Plantation....a course near here.

My nighmare hole is the par 3 number 6 hole on the Island View course at my home course.


It's an island green that plays anywhere from an 8 iron to a 4 iron....I've posted pics here before of it....I'll see if I can find them.

Anyway....there is a prevailing right to left wind that blows accross the lake over the monster hole.


I played it today and was totally psyched out from the tee......I was only hitting a 6 iron....but dunked it in the water..... short....tentative swing and pisspoor results.

Luckily it's followed by a sweet par 5 that allows you to take out your agressions on the tee shot. I crunched one there and hit a nice layup to 68 yards...opened up the face of my SW and let it ride. Very high shot that floated a bit more right than I accounted for.....rode the ridge for a 25ft comebacker.....which I left short and double tapped for a bogey....I was pissed walking off the green still thinking about the island monster par 3.

I hate and love this hole.

[rckwd]

RCWD...that looks like a wicke hole.....reminds me somewhat of a par 3 at Goshen Plantation....a course near here.

LOL...if you ever get up to Toccoa, look me up and we will see if we can avoid making a deposit in that lake.

You cant tell from the picture but the lake wraps around the number one hole. Talking about pressure....Its one thing teeing off fresh in front of everyone...but another when you have to clear that darn lake right off the bat!!

[rckwd]

Not sure, I have a Mac.

I love that pin location..LOL

[Jell0b0y]

Mine is this par 3....you better hit a 7 iron perfect or your going off the back or in the drink..

I lost a ball just looking at that hole

[rckwd]

I lost a ball just looking at that hole

LOL....if I had back every ball......

[iWALK18]

Mine is this par 3....you better hit a 7 iron perfect or your going off the back or in the drink..

What course is that? I used to live in ATL, I totally wish I had played this.

[iWALK18]

This is my current favorite hole. Its a par 5, the tee boxes are elevated, and as you can see it can be played two ways.

- You can hit a mid iron to the fairway, then hit through the shoot to the second fairway leaving a wedge.
- Or its possible to cut the corner, which takes a 260 yard shot or so, and leave yourself a short iron. This brings the lake into play, as well as the trees, obviously. Super fun hole.

[rckwd]

What course is that? I used to live in ATL, I totally wish I had played this.

You probably knew it as the Toccoa Country Club 'bout 80 miles NE of ATL.

[msd3075]

These are a few pictures I pulled off of Live Maps of my favorite hole, #8 on the Cypress Creek course at Champions Golf Club:





These pictures don't do it justice. Depending on where the tees are set up or where they place the pin, the hole can play completely different. If the pin in front-right, you either have short sand shot with water behind the hole, a touch chip shot, a penalty stroke with a drop, or a short birdie putt. If the pin in back-left and the tees are set up on the left side of the teebox, you have to draw your shot around the trees on the left just to hit the green. I couldn't get the image to zoom out enough to show the back teebox, but it's further back and about 3 times as wide as the boxes in the image.


And here is a picture of #4 on the same course:



The creek you have to hit over (Cypress Creek) is known as "Hogan's Hazard" because it's where Ben Hogan hurt himself while playing his last round of competitive golf. During the Houston Open (in the early 70's), he hit three tee shots down in the hazard and hurt himself while looking for his third shot. They had to cart him back to the clubhouse a few holes later, and the rest is history. The hole is actually really easy if the hole is back just because you'll end up have more than enough club to carry the creek and you have a huge, wide green to shoot at. If it's in the front, it's much the same as the hole above in that you either have a birdie putt or you are screwed. Not only that, but even if you shoot at the fat portion of the green, the green is so contoured at the front that you are lucky to escape with a par.

[microcrayfish]

How can I open this file....windows medi will not

You need something that will play .mov files which windows media player won't do.