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What other good to great courses end with par 5's on the 17th and 18th holes ?
Brent Hutto:
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--- Quote from: Joey Chase on August 14, 2014, 06:22:04 AM ---Royal Birkdale ends in back to back 5's as well
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For the most part true, but the 18th becomes a long par 4 for The Open.
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I'm infamously out of touch when playing courses on vacation. Don't typically carry a scorecard or necessarily a Strokesaver.
The 18th at Birkdale played in a fair breeze and I played the first couple shots during the waning moments of a rain shower that had started back on the 16th tee. After I finished up with my three putts from the fringe for a 7 my feeling was that it was just way too hard a hole for me in the wind and rain. Then I noticed after the round it was a Par 5 so "only" a double-bogey. Which somehow made it seem less brutal, knowing that first putt from the fringe was for par!
Bill Seitz:
--- Quote from: David Stamm on August 14, 2014, 01:07:57 AM ---Victoria Club in Riverside, CA (Max Behr) ends with 2 par 5's. In fact, 14 and 15 are also par 5's, giving the course 4 par 5's out of the last 5 holes.
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Four par fives and three par threes in the last eight holes, with 11, 13, and 16 being par threes. Weird stretch of holes on the card, but I enjoyed playing there when it was our home course during my senior year at UC Riverside.
Ed Homsey:
Question was asked whether the 18th at Cherry Hill Club, in southern Ontario, is still a par 5 for members. A resounding yes. From the back tee, it is 554 yards, and reaching the green means little unless you are in the correct position relative to the pin. A very tricky Travis green. Ray Floyd could provide key insight into this particular green, from his experience at the 1972 Canadian Open held there.
Patrick_Mucci:
The front nine at Forsgate ends with two par fives, causing me to wonder if the nines were ever reversed ?
David_Tepper:
Duncan C. -
The ladies played 17 & 18 as par-5's in the Women's Open at Birkdale this summer.
DT
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