Back To Back Par Threes

[Chris_Blakely]

Rockville Links (Emmet) - 9th hole (225 yards) and 10th hole (135 yards) are par 3's.

Cape Cod CC (Emmet & Tull) - 15th hole (190 yards) and 16th hole (205 yards) are par 3's.  15 is downhill over a ravine and 16th is an odd hole that is a flat par 3 that has a back tee box that extends the hole to around 270 yards that is not on the scorecard.

Bald Mountain GC Lake Orion, MI (Wilfrid Reid & John Connellan) has two back to back par 3's.  Holes 13 and 14 are around 210 and 200 yards respectively and in typical Reid & Connellan fashing, greens have some wild undulations.  I believe the 13th has three levels.

The Black Brook Club Mentor, OH (Bert Way) the 8th & 9th holes are par 3's both around 170 yards.

Painesville CC Painesville, OH has two back to back par 3's on the 14th and 15th holes.  The 14th is 110 yard drop shot and the 15th is a 205 yard slighly uphill hole that runs along a ridge that drops off 40 feet to the right.

South Shore GC Syracuse, IN (William Diddle) - 8th and 9th holes are back to back par 3's.

[mark chalfant]

#13 , 160 yds uphill to a fun rolling green and  #14 215 to a beautifully bunkered green ( left is dead). This pair passes in front of the marvelous clubhouse at Newport, RI Country Club.
A splendid sense of history here. !

[Sean Leary]

I played at The Palms in Palm Springs last week and they have back to back par 3's on the back nine, 15 and 16, one about 170 yards followed by a 225 yarder, both with very cool greens.  The tee box on 15 is right by Fred Couples house.

[John Yerger]

Two great back-to-back par threes are at Newport Country Club. The nines are reversed for the Womans open next year but the 4th, called CLub, is a 151 yards uphill. The 5th is called Plateau also known by many on this site as the REEF hole, is 202 yards downhill. The prevailing wind for both is typically into the wind. The viewing public is in for a real treat next year.

[Mike_DeVries]

Mines GC in Grand Rapids, MI, has back to back threes at 7 & 8.  They are very close in yardage (155-156 on the back tees), but very different in play, with the 7th a downhill shot to a small green perched off of an opposing hillside and the 8th a level shot across a sandy waste area to a large, undulating green with a bit of a Pine Valley feel to it.  It isn't an ideal situation to have them back to back, but that is what the land allowed and they work well.

Lawsonia Links has an unusual stretch from #9-14, with par going 5-3-5-3-5-3 and it is GREAT golf!

Greywalls has 6 par fours from #7 to #12, with the bookends both long par 4's (although the elevated tee shot on 7 makes it shorter), two short fours at 8 and 10, and 2 medium fours at 9 and 11.

Cheers!

[Mike McGuire]

Erin Hills will have back to back threes with an interesting twist.

The holes  parallel each other. The 6th goes east slightly uphill. The 7th goes back west.

The intersesting part is, the 7th is a Dell (blind) but you get to see  the whole green as you walk by  playing the 6th. It might create anticipation and complicate the "its not fair, it's blind" arguement  of the masses.

[Gerry B]

Belmont in Bermuda -  #3 and #4  - mediocre but they still qualify also #10 and #11 are back to back par 5's and again very mediocre