The most interesting/distinctive non-golf feature on a golf course

[Jason Topp]

The ruins on the way to the 7th tee at Old Head are memorable. 

[Howard Riefs]

At Sea Island-Seaside, adjacent to a fairway (18?) is a cemetery still used by descendants of plantation slaves. Additionally, the club's grounds also includes the ruins of a former slave hospital.

[Tom Yost]

None of this, of course, compares to the El Tracks and graffiti-laden pedestrial tunnel bisecting the Reverse Alps Hole or the fire station that must be carried on the approach to the Long Hole on the Reverse Jans National...

Don't forget the streetlamp that can come into play.

[Phil McDade]

None of this, of course, compares to the El Tracks and graffiti-laden pedestrial tunnel bisecting the Reverse Alps Hole or the fire station that must be carried on the approach to the Long Hole on the Reverse Jans National...

Has anyone ever posted an aerial of the Jans?

Daughter No. 1 has graduated from Northwestern, and I never played the Jans -- forward or reverse!

[Tried to post aerial. Screwed it up!]

See Kennedy's reply #39 on this thread:

http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,21055.0.html

The various urban detritus of the Jans, including the aforementioned El tunnel, can be found throughout this thread:

http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,38096.0.html

[Peter Sayegh]

Hejaz Shrine in Greenville, SC has a small cemetary wthin its routing. Can't remember the hole but it sits close to LZ on the right.

Also, always thought it was cool to see the Rose Bowl at Brookside.

Does Brickyard count? That's pretty distinctive.

[Carl Johnson]

The lighthouse and "the remains of the castle of Robert the Bruce, Scotland's king from 1306-1329, can be seen from the 9th green and 10th tees."  At least this is what the Turnberry Resort's website reports for the Ailsa course (been there, seen that, and with a bad yank left came closer to the castle ruins than recommended).

[James Boon]

Here are a few interesting oddities…

Old Second World War bunkers at Burnham & Berrow and at Deal, amongst others I’m sure.

The beach huts at Hunstanton and Brancaster

At Hollinwell we’ve got the rocky outcrop where Robin Hood used to sit watching for the Sheriff’s men

The 7th at Pennard plays between the ruins of an old church and a castle.

Quite a few courses are set within the grounds of some rather impressive country houses. Some it’s the clubhouse such as Stoke Poges. Others its just part of the backdrop such as Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, Wollaton Hall in Nottingham or Taymouth Castle in Perthshire.

And one from outside of the UK which I don’t think anyones mentioned yet… Pete Dye’s Brickyard Crossing and the Indianapolis race circuit (Edit: Peter beat me to it above)

Cheers,

James

Ps I’ll add some photos shortly

[Eric Smith]

[Dan Kelly]

Tour 18 -- right?

[Ted Cahill]

#16 at The Presidio in San Francisco there is a large exaust vent for the McCarthur Tunnel that runs beneath the hole- this tunnel connects the Golden Gate bridge with the west side of the city. The tunnel emits a white noise of the traffic below and I always find fascinating that engineers preserved the golf hole and still built the tunnel. I'm a big fan of golf courses interacting with the neighborhoods they share.

[Wade Whitehead]

The ruins at Spring Island add a sense of mystery.

Of course I'm partial to the silos at Ballyhack.

WW

[Dub_ONeill]

Moundbuilders Golf Course in Newark, Ohio is built through and over fairly extensive pre Columbian earthworks.

[Dónal Ó Ceallaigh]

Maybe not terribly interesting or distinctive, but this old shed is fairly close to the green at the par three 16th hole at Sala Golf Klubb (Swe.):

[Sean_A]

I have always been fond of Berrow Church.  Its totally out of play but a useful and pretty landmark.  


Dunbar has a cool old buiding short and left of the 7th green, but it is in play.

Priai D'el Rey has a few old buildings near the shore which conjure up images of a long dead maritime power.


Royal St David's has Harlech Castle brooding over the morfa.


Talk about a building in England which forces one to ask questions.


Ciao

[Mike Hogan]

This is the cell tower from Bandon Dunes.


Being a Forester I wasn't fooled, I could tell it wasn't a real tree

[Bill McKinley]

Scotland is crawling with those features...

Turnberry: Lighthouse and Robert the Bruce' Castle Ruins

Loch Lomond: Castle Ruins behind the 18th green

Carnoustie: The artillary range close to the 5th hole

Crail (Balcomie Links): The boathouse next to the 1st green and the 2nd tee

North Berwick (West): The wall on #13

[Steve_ Shaffer]

How about an airplane? This is the 16th hole at Scotland Run in southern NJ, courtesy of the Bausch Collection:

[Sam Morrow]

Ian can tell us the name of the course that has the huge stone arch rail bridge going behind a green......

Many golf courses in the SE have Civil War Trenches, and some in VA are on Revolutionary War sites, no?  I think there is now a golf course on the Normandy invasion site, too.

In Azle, TX, we designed a course with an old stone safe house from Indian attacks, and of course, Opryland has its distinctive stone, springfed Springhouse, where they once hung hams.

Is the course in Azle Cross Timbers?

[Bill_Yates]

In my humble opinion, the view while playing "In" is simply - The most stirring view in all of golf.

[Jeff_Brauer]

Sam,

It is Cross Timbers.

[Matt Day]

one of several grave sites on the east course at Kai Sai Chau in Hong Kong

[Dónal Ó Ceallaigh]

This old church bell tower appears to be the line to take off the tee at the par five 13th at the RTJ II designed Castle Course at Bro Hof (Sweden).

[Mike_Clayton]

The first hole at Royal Jersey plays over the 18th green from the tee and the fairway runs up to an 18th century fort on the left and a concrete German bunker from the second war on the right.
The old temples on the Delhi Golf Club are pretty interesting too.

[Dónal Ó Ceallaigh]

This is right next to the 9th tee at Dunfanaghy. I think it's some sort of look out hut from WW II.
 

[Tom Kelly]

Talk about a building in England which forces one to ask questions.


Ciao

Good to see Old Joe again...its nice of the trees on the 7th to block out the view of the horrid Muirhead Tower which you can see alongside Old Joe from most of the course.

One feature I like that hasn't been mentioend so far as most already have, is the Quarry at Erewash Golf Club in Derbyshire. Unfortunately I haven't got a picture but the 4th and 5th holes are back to back par 3's a little over 100 yards both played in an abandoned quarry. The 4th plays from the top down into the quarry floor with the cliff face /wall of the quarry no more than a few metres from the back of the green and then the 5th plays along the quarry floor into the opposite corner. Makes a fairly average golf course very memorable!