Over the Green

[Jefferey13]

So my mind works in strange ways, and today watching the US OPEN and thinking of course layout, I was wondering if anyone has ever seen a green where it was set up so the player would purposely hit over and then played the next shot back. I thought it would be kinda cool to have a 420 yard par 5 with a steep green sloping away, so the second shot would be played over the entire green for a short pitch back up.

Do some golf course design rules try and prevent this? Is it know to be faux pas and never done? Would you think it was cool or gimmicky?

[B-Con]

Even if the green was sloped backwards, almost everyone would probably be able to lay up short (within 100 yards) and pitch on. It would probably not be worth it to shoot over the green unless short of it were extremely bad lie. You'd need something like a very deep water hazard and a lot of rough to make it worth trying to hit long. That would probably be difficult to pull off. And even if you did, the good players would probably still aim for the green and then just let the ball run off, so they'd just be chipping back on from within 10 or so yards instead of hitting full shots.

[Mattplusness]

I remember some tourney a while ago players were hitting past the green on purpose to hit the stands and get a free drop. The drop zone was in a place where your ball would roll far away so players ended up placing their ball down.

[ApocG10]

It wouldnt make sense. Everyone would just go for the back of the green, especially with high spin balls and wedges.