14th at ralston GC in Scotland. Uphill par 4 with a small elevated green. Easy enough tee shot …but it feels like there is no target and your a long way from the fairway. So anything other than a perfect tee shot and your not hitting the green in two. Two bunkers at the front of the elevated green. Green itself is tiered. Many a medal score ruined in that hole haha
Danjiks88
My course has this Par 3, very simple 135 meters. I swear to god I could hit a driver on that hole and still end up short of the green
Comfortable_City1892
Any hole I have to carry water or natural hazard off the tee.
Important_Sound_8718
I play a par 3/short par 4 course and hole 18 is a dogleg right. It’s open other than a small grove of trees. About 80% of the time I hit it right in the damn trees, have to punch out, and make at best bogie. Playing it again tomorrow afternoon with my daughter. Fingers crossed that it’s a 20% day lol.
iamronanthethird
Ah Galway Bay, I don’t think I’ve had a bad time on that hole but some days it’s a 9 iron and others it could be a 4 and still need to get lucky.
buffalo171
Keep your head down !!
shaffe04gt
#17 at my “home” course. About 180 yard par 3. Four bunkers in front and to the left of the green, water to the right. Tall fescue if you leave it short. Steep hill with more tall grass and a steep hill if you over shoot it.
Im either always in the water to right or leaving it short
Par 5 5th into a peninsula green and peninsula layup area. I hit the green about 1/5 of the time. 0 times if I’m going at it in two.
supertoppy
CommonGround Golf Course. Number 12. Doesn’t matter how well I’m playing, I’m losing a ball on that hole.
Fools_Requiem
I love hitting over water hazards, so not that one.
Omisco420
Hole number 13 at Baird. IYKYK
ReeceDawg
#15 at Clinton Heights in Ohio.. That pond to the right has a higher waterline due to the number of balls I’ve lost to it’s depths.
mitchdwx
Hole 3 at Allentown Muni in PA. It’s a 500+ yard par 5 with a creek 250 yards off the tee, so I can’t hit driver. There’s a small dogleg left after the creek and lots of trees on both sides of the fairway. Plus you’re in a bunker if you miss the green left or right, and if you miss long, you’re chipping on a downhill slope.
The tee shot usually isn’t my problem. It’s the second and approach shots. One of them will always end up somewhere I don’t want it. I haven’t parred that hole in years and it’s one of the few holes on that course I’ve never birdied.
Lietenantdan
There’s a hole at my course that takes a sharp dog leg left around a lake. You can hit it directly to the hole, but that’s almost a 300 yard carry. Plus you can’t see the green so you have to go up a bit to make sure the green is clear. Going further right is easier, but there’s a somewhat narrow landing area so if you go too far left, you are in the water. But if you go too far right, you are in the woods. You can hit a short first shot to avoid the lake on that shot, but then you have a 200 shot to the green, most of it over the lake.
WatermanChris
# 3 at my course. It’s a longish hole with an uphill tee shot with water right and a giant tree and fairway bunker left. If I pipe a drive, it will go over the hill and then the fairway slopes left to right and you might end up in the water. The green is one of the toughest on the course too unless the pin is in the front.
15 at Balboa is pretty much a guaranteed lost ball and double bogey for me.
DanDamage12
Hole #3 at a local course of mine. There is a short par 4 with a minor inconvenient water hazard in front the tee box. The first time I played I topped a ball into the water and for some reason I cannot avoid it. I’ve tried to drive green, hybrid to the fairway for a layup or even tried to hit a wedge just to get past it. Doesn’t matter. I top the ball EVERY SINGLE TIME! It has permeated my psyche.
The course has gone downhill in quality the last year or so, so it might be in its last legs so I may never conquer it.
StinkyButtBoy
Ur mom’s 😎
Initial-Wasabi-5576
5th hole at Liberty National!
It’s not a super long hole, only 427 from the tips (on a course that plays 7400), and that’s a big reason why it’s so frustrating.
The elevated tee shot is famously intimidating. And you need a perfect one. Left is dead in the water, a bailout right is often OB, and when it’s not, it’s super thick northeastern rough on an uneven lie and there are often two trees in your path to the hole. Big hitters are able to aim further left but the landing zone is not any bigger and the lake turns into a creek that borders the left side all the way to the hole so the water can never be taken completely out of play. If you are able to hit the fairway, your second is to a narrow, undulating green with deep bunkers on your right and the creek bordering the entire left side. Without a perfect drive, hitting the green with a long iron is a very tall task. Also, you guessed it, not a flat putt on the green.
A par 3 very similar in layout to the hole in the picture. It plays about 150 yds.
I tend to fade the ball and the prevailing wind is from the left which on a windy day pushes my fade even more and drops me in the water.
And when I club up to make sure I don’t get pushed I end up over and in the sand.
drstrangedeath
Timber Point in Great River, NY. Short par 3 11th with water and always has cross wind. I always miss that green, it’s driven me crazy for years. Funny enough, I got my first & only hole in one last year on that hole. Couldn’t believe it. Haven’t played the course since, but of course, I assume it’ll be back to business as usual next time.
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14th at ralston GC in Scotland. Uphill par 4 with a small elevated green. Easy enough tee shot …but it feels like there is no target and your a long way from the fairway. So anything other than a perfect tee shot and your not hitting the green in two. Two bunkers at the front of the elevated green. Green itself is tiered. Many a medal score ruined in that hole haha
My course has this Par 3, very simple 135 meters. I swear to god I could hit a driver on that hole and still end up short of the green
Any hole I have to carry water or natural hazard off the tee.
I play a par 3/short par 4 course and hole 18 is a dogleg right. It’s open other than a small grove of trees. About 80% of the time I hit it right in the damn trees, have to punch out, and make at best bogie. Playing it again tomorrow afternoon with my daughter. Fingers crossed that it’s a 20% day lol.
Ah Galway Bay, I don’t think I’ve had a bad time on that hole but some days it’s a 9 iron and others it could be a 4 and still need to get lucky.
Keep your head down !!
#17 at my “home” course. About 180 yard par 3. Four bunkers in front and to the left of the green, water to the right. Tall fescue if you leave it short. Steep hill with more tall grass and a steep hill if you over shoot it.
Im either always in the water to right or leaving it short
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Par 5 5th into a peninsula green and peninsula layup area. I hit the green about 1/5 of the time. 0 times if I’m going at it in two.
CommonGround Golf Course. Number 12. Doesn’t matter how well I’m playing, I’m losing a ball on that hole.
I love hitting over water hazards, so not that one.
Hole number 13 at Baird. IYKYK
#15 at Clinton Heights in Ohio.. That pond to the right has a higher waterline due to the number of balls I’ve lost to it’s depths.
Hole 3 at Allentown Muni in PA. It’s a 500+ yard par 5 with a creek 250 yards off the tee, so I can’t hit driver. There’s a small dogleg left after the creek and lots of trees on both sides of the fairway. Plus you’re in a bunker if you miss the green left or right, and if you miss long, you’re chipping on a downhill slope.
The tee shot usually isn’t my problem. It’s the second and approach shots. One of them will always end up somewhere I don’t want it. I haven’t parred that hole in years and it’s one of the few holes on that course I’ve never birdied.
There’s a hole at my course that takes a sharp dog leg left around a lake. You can hit it directly to the hole, but that’s almost a 300 yard carry. Plus you can’t see the green so you have to go up a bit to make sure the green is clear. Going further right is easier, but there’s a somewhat narrow landing area so if you go too far left, you are in the water. But if you go too far right, you are in the woods. You can hit a short first shot to avoid the lake on that shot, but then you have a 200 shot to the green, most of it over the lake.
# 3 at my course. It’s a longish hole with an uphill tee shot with water right and a giant tree and fairway bunker left. If I pipe a drive, it will go over the hill and then the fairway slopes left to right and you might end up in the water. The green is one of the toughest on the course too unless the pin is in the front.
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15 at Balboa is pretty much a guaranteed lost ball and double bogey for me.
Hole #3 at a local course of mine. There is a short par 4 with a minor inconvenient water hazard in front the tee box. The first time I played I topped a ball into the water and for some reason I cannot avoid it. I’ve tried to drive green, hybrid to the fairway for a layup or even tried to hit a wedge just to get past it. Doesn’t matter. I top the ball EVERY SINGLE TIME! It has permeated my psyche.
The course has gone downhill in quality the last year or so, so it might be in its last legs so I may never conquer it.
Ur mom’s 😎
5th hole at Liberty National!
It’s not a super long hole, only 427 from the tips (on a course that plays 7400), and that’s a big reason why it’s so frustrating.
The elevated tee shot is famously intimidating. And you need a perfect one. Left is dead in the water, a bailout right is often OB, and when it’s not, it’s super thick northeastern rough on an uneven lie and there are often two trees in your path to the hole. Big hitters are able to aim further left but the landing zone is not any bigger and the lake turns into a creek that borders the left side all the way to the hole so the water can never be taken completely out of play. If you are able to hit the fairway, your second is to a narrow, undulating green with deep bunkers on your right and the creek bordering the entire left side. Without a perfect drive, hitting the green with a long iron is a very tall task. Also, you guessed it, not a flat putt on the green.
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A par 3 very similar in layout to the hole in the picture. It plays about 150 yds.
I tend to fade the ball and the prevailing wind is from the left which on a windy day pushes my fade even more and drops me in the water.
And when I club up to make sure I don’t get pushed I end up over and in the sand.
Timber Point in Great River, NY. Short par 3 11th with water and always has cross wind. I always miss that green, it’s driven me crazy for years. Funny enough, I got my first & only hole in one last year on that hole. Couldn’t believe it. Haven’t played the course since, but of course, I assume it’ll be back to business as usual next time.
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The hole that will mess you up the most is the one you go home to after a 6 hour round