Short Par 4 18th holes

[Mark Pearce]

This may be cheating, but please I nominate the 18th at the Royal Worlington and Newmarket Golf Club as the best short-par-four closing hole in the UK - OB and a stream off the tee, an active road to be carried, semi-drivable by some, an amazing green, bunkered cunningly. The fact that it's already been played as the 9th doesn't dilute its qualities as an 18th, I'd argue, but I am sure others will disagree! Incidentally there is now a back tee which brings the hole out to c320 yards (as opposed to 299 ) if you want a little additional challenge...

Agreed, it's a great hole.  When I was there in the early summer the pin was very near the front and in 5 plays I couldn't get a wedge to stop anywhere near it.  A real contender, if only the 18th at Kington hadn't been built.....

[Thomas Dai]

Cheating just a wee bit here 😊, but irrespective of it's yardage the 18th at Brora might as well be a par-4!
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[Tim Gavrich]

I may have missed it, but I don't think Palmetto GC's closer has been mentioned, and it ought to be.


Bedford Golf & Tennis has a delightful short 18th, too.


Interesting that so few newer courses have drivable par-4 closers, but SO MANY have closing reachable par fives, which are broadly the same thing, plus a tee shot.


I'd love to see more courses end on long/tough par 3s, frankly. The thrill of the approach-shot, match-on-the-line duel is not delayed or maybe scuttled by potentially anticlimactically disparate tee shots, and if sudden death is desired, it's easier to go back and replay.

[Scott Weersing]

Here is a list of par 3 18 holes from a previous thread:


http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,25042.0.html

[OChatriot]

The 18th in Hossegor

[Thomas Dai]

The 18th (9th) at delightful Mulranny. Circa 300-350 yds. Over a stream, up a humps-n-hollows fairway to a green that resembles a top-hat. Not sure it's driveable however, as running a ball up the very steeply angled front of the top-hat is pretty unlikely and a tee-shot landing dirctly on top of the top-hat is pretty likely to end up in a deep hollow behind the green.
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