Are there any courses that

[Patrick_Mucci]

start with a par 3 ?

I believe that one of the courses at Westchester had a par 3 first hole.

How about an uphill par 3 ?

I was thinking of Paramount and the "road" issue on the first hole.

Starting on the 2nd hole creates a disconnect of sorts.
Sand Hills might be a primary example of a first tee disconnected from the clubhouse.

What other clubs require a hike to get from the clubhouse to the first tee ?

[Chris Roselle]

Royal Lytham and St. Anne's starts with a par 3.  That's what screwed Woosnam in the Open Championship.  If he started on a non par 3 he would have noticed two drivers in his bag...

[BHoover]

Lytham & St. Anne's starts out with a par 3.

That par 3 was the reason Ian Woosnam and his caddie didn't realize he had an extra driver in the bag to start the final round of the 2001 Open Championship.

[Chris Roselle]

Lytham & St. Anne's starts out with a par 3.

That par 3 was the reason Ian Woosnam and his caddie didn't realize he had an extra driver in the bag to start the final round of the 2001 Open Championship.

Great minds think alike Brian...

[BHoover]

Lytham & St. Anne's starts out with a par 3.

That par 3 was the reason Ian Woosnam and his caddie didn't realize he had an extra driver in the bag to start the final round of the 2001 Open Championship.

Great minds think alike Brian...

That is still the most unbelievable thing I've ever seen in pro sports. I remember Curtis Strange saying on the broadcast that he would have had to fire the caddie right then and there had it been him.

[Jeff Evagues]

York CC in Maine does.

[Sean_A]

Addington has a pretty hefty uphill short hole opener.  Musselburgh's is uphill and better than Addy's.  Mind you, the doozie uphill par 3 opener has to be Church Stretton's. The white flag can just be made out over the left side of the gorse.  Everytime I have been there its been a driver out the gate.


The second too is a steeply uphill par 3. 


Not uphill, but the third has a seriously uphill climb for its par 3.   


AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!


Ciao

[David_Tepper]

Pacific Grove (CA) muni starts with two par-3's!

http://www.pggolflinks.com/page.php?page_id=4088&name=Scorecard

One of the course at the Berkshire starts with a fairly long par-3.

[Phil McDade]

The great little 9-hole Traigh GC, on the western coast of Scotland, begins and ends with a par 3. The 1st hole is a blind, uphill shot to the top of the sand ridge that forms a spine across the course. You can see a picture of the 1st green on the home page of the club's website: http://www.traighgolf.co.uk/

[Tyler Kearns]

start with a par 3 ?

I believe that one of the courses at Westchester had a par 3 first hole.

How about an uphill par 3 ?

I was thinking of Paramount and the "road" issue on the first hole.

Starting on the 2nd hole creates a disconnect of sorts.
Sand Hills might be a primary example of a first tee disconnected from the clubhouse.

What other clubs require a hike to get from the clubhouse to the first tee ?

Yarra Yarra in Melbourne starts with a par 3.
In addition to Sand Hills, the original Sutton Bay, Dismal River (White & Red courses) start a long way from the clubhouse.  Old Sandwich's first tee is across the reservoir and removed from the business around the clubhouse.

TK

[Tommy Williamsen]

The Berkshire Blue course in Surrey has a par three opener.

[Tommy Williamsen]

The Mountain course at Boyne Mountain is a mile from the clubhouse.

[mike_beene]

Pat,wouldn't a par 3 start be ideal for pace of play? Also,I have wondered if architects sometimes design a 10th hole par 3 to keep the nines from being switched

[Jim Nugent]

A couple courses we played in high school started with par 3s.  On one I had to hit 3-iron (and I was pretty long), as my first shot of the day, with no driving range or even a single warmup shot.  I never liked that hole!

[Bill_McBride]

Walton Heath (Old) starts with a par 3, and then you cross the road.   In the 1981 Ryder Cup they skipped the first and the long par 4 second played as No. 1.  I don't know how the composite course worked after that. 

[David Kelly]

Yarra Yarra GC starts with a 220yd par 3. 

[Matthew Rose]

In Westchester's case, I believe the nines are switched, so that is actually #10.

When Victoria GC hosted the Aussie Open a few years back, they shortened the first hole to a par-3 (it's about 265 yards).

My hometown Janesville Country Club had a par-3 10th and I often had to start on it.... I didn't like it, because it was about a 6 or 7 iron and if you missed the green left or right, you had an impossible bunker shot.

[Mark_F]

Huntercombe starts with a rather nifty mid-iron par three, slightly vision impaired, to a sort of corrugated iron type green.

[Dónal Ó Ceallaigh]

Southport & Ainsdale has a medium length par three opener.

Otway also has one (well with a par of 64, it's no big surprise). Grange - a Braid design - in Dublin unusually starts with two par threes.

[Mike_Clayton]

La Moye in Jersey. Bingley St Ives in Yorkshire.

[Bill Seitz]

La Canada Country Club in Southern California, just north of Pasadena starts with a par 3.  It's not necessarily a couse I'd recommend seeking out. 

[Ross Tuddenham]

The first at Kilspindie in East Lothian starts with a par 3.

[Ally Mcintosh]

The best I can think of are Walton Heath, Addington, Lytham & Berkshire Blue (all mentioned)...

I know a few others but no point listing them because they aren't in the class of those above...

[Jim McCann]

A whole bunch of Scottish courses that I've played in times gone by
(Callander, Carradale, Cathcart Castle, Cochrane Castle, Colville Park and Crow Wood - to name only those beginning with a "C")
start with a par three but only one course that I visited recently, Aberdour in Fife, begins with consecutive par threes,
both of which are excellent short holes.   

[Adam Lawrence]

La Moye in Jersey. Bingley St Ives in Yorkshire.

Bingley St Ives is a short four for normal play - it might have been a par three for you guys when the Lawrence Batley was played there in the  80s, I guess