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The Par Three Tenth
TEPaul:
I certainly like the par 3 10th at RCD, Newcastle, N. Ireland. I guess they might have considered making a short par 4 in there up to the ridge line you drive over on #11 but I doubt that would have been half as interesting as the par 3 they made and then the totally blind drive over the ridge. The drive on #11 is about as blind as you can get on a golf hole and some might even feel it hard to get the ball up high enough on that tee shot. I calculate by the time you get to the 11th tee you've already had about 4-6 really blind shots on that golf course! Pretty neat really! RCD may have been at the end of that era when the blind shot in golf was actually considered a very prized architectural offering!!
redanman:
Par 3 Tenth holes are a lot less common than par 3 thirteenth holes in my experience. They are particularily dangerous for those with triskadecaphobia, of course.
Paul_Turner:
Mike
Quickly thinking of the golden age British and Irish courses, a par 3 10th seems quite rare.
I disagree with the comments that the 10th wasn't regarded as a starting point for matches. Guys like Mack and Colt clearly wrote that, if possible, two loops were preferable for that very advantage (getting matches away on busy days). So I'd have thought a par 3 was less likely. If the course isn't in two loops then, yes, the 10th is just another hole.
Evan Fleisher:
Ken Boltz...
Good call on CGC, I forgot about that one! On my one and only attempt at that little beauty of a hole, I pulled my tee shot right (I'm a mollydooker!), fluffed my chip shot into the rough, then holed out my next chip shot for a smooth par.
woof:
The 10th at Philadelphia Cricket is a par 3, very welcome after the difficult 9th. The 10th also returns to the clubhouse instead of starting from the clubhouse, informally dividing the course into a front ten and a back eight.
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