Quite a few of them out there, eh!
My candidate: #10 at Eagle Ridge, a new resort/residential property in Invermere, B.C. Almost all mountain courses around the world will have a silly hole. Something about the difficulty of heavy machinary moving them darn hills. But surely, designers and architects can avoid the silliness I'm hopefully about to describe in their preliminary routing plans!
The hole is 376 yards, initially downhill, then dogleg to the right and then up another hill. At the corner of the dogleg, perhaps 170 from the tee and across the fairway is a 50-60 yard chasm (angled obliquely from about 4 o'clock to 10 o'clock) designated as environmentally sensitive... of course. The tee shot is wide open to the left but a stand of 100'+ pines protect the right side.
The options: 1. hitting driver to the tiny landing area to the right of the chasm. To do this, a surgically accurate tee ball carrying about 260 yds over the 100'pines. A little tug or push and you're in the hazard or the forest. Hit it 280 dead accurate and you're in the forest through the fairway. How many of us got that shot?
2. A mid to short iron layup, of course. The ideal area (the flat swath) runs parallel to the chasm, is only 10 yards wide and would range from about 190 to 220 yards to the green which is way up there, at least an additional 2 or 3 clubs.
I played it 6 iron to the base of the hill, luckily (an extra club on the same line and I'm in Zondar, a club less and I have a sidehill, downhill lie over 200 yards from the green up the hill). I was 198 from the hole and an absolutely pure 2-iron barely makes the front fringe.
A head shaker of a hole!