Best Par 5s (in hole sequence order)

[Kevin Pallier]

What are the best Par 5's you've seen in hole sequence 1-18? Why?

[Kyle Harris]

#12 West Shore Country Club: Camp Hill, PA

[Tim Leahy]

#1 Spyglass Hill. Forest to beach
#13 Torrey Pines South almost unreachable, tough layup, blind third
#17 Riviera  almost unreachable, tough green
#18 Pebble Pacific Ocean is a great hazard

[JohnVDB]

#1 Spyglass Hill. Forest to beach
#13 Torrey Pines South almost unreachable, tough layup, blind third
#16 Riviera  almost unreachable, tough green
#18 Pebble Pacific Ocean is a great hazard

I think you meant 17 at Riviera.

[Mark Pearce]

Muirfield 5, 9 and 17
Silloth 13

[John Kavanaugh]

#1 Spyglass Hill. Forest to beach
#13 Torrey Pines South almost unreachable, tough layup, blind third
#16 Riviera  almost unreachable, tough green
#18 Pebble Pacific Ocean is a great hazard

13 at Torrey Pines South plays shorter than the par four 12th.


17 at Prairie Dunes is a lock.

[Thomas Dai]

1st - St Enodoc - anticipation set at 11 on the Spinal Tap scale.
Atb

[James Reader]

At the risk of being obvious:


6th Sunningdale New
8th Brancaster
14th TOC


Even if (or maybe that should be because) the first two are 4 1/2s.

[David Ober]

#1 at Spyglass


#3 at Pacific Dunes -- Love the center-line bunkers. Plenty of room on both sides and they mess with the mind!


#? at MPCC (Dunes?) -- All I remember is that the green was cut hard against a sand dune that encroached from the right side of the hole starting at about 75(?) yards? Only played it twice in the State Am in 2006, but loved the hole.

[Carl Rogers]

Strantz
Tobacco Road 1, 4 & 11
Royal New Kent 2 & 6


TD
Riverfront 14
Streamsong Blue 17
Pacific Dunes 18


C & C
Bandon Trails 3
Streamsong Red 7


Flynn
Cascades 5


George
Ballyhack 10


Dye
TPC 9 & 16


ANGC 13 & 15


Riviera 17


Hole 12?

[JLahrman]

Hole 12?

Oakmont?

[Thomas Dai]

2nd - Royal Aberdeen
Honourable mention - Enniscrone, RoI
atb

[Carl Rogers]

up
Hole 12?

Correct Oakmont 12 ..... could not think of it late last night

[Mark Mammel]

1. Spanish Bay
6. Carnoustie
7. White Bear Yacht Club
8. Prairie Dunes
9. Royal Dornoch
12 Kingsbarns
13. Augusta
14. Old Course
16 Ballybunion
18. Pebble Beach

[Ira Fishman]

No 2: Streamsong Red
No 7: St George's Hill (many disagree) and Killarney Killeen
No 9: North Berwick and Royal Dornoch
No 10: Pine Needles
No 12: Lahinch, Old Head, and Pacific Dunes
No 14: Woking (if only for the porch)
No 16: Bandon Trails
No 17: Streamsong Blue
No 18; Waterville, Castle Stuart, Streamsong Black, and Bryn Mawr


Ira

[Wayne_Kozun]

C & C
Bandon Trails 3
Streamsong Red 7

I woould add Cabot Cliffs 7 and, especially, 15.


Cabot Cliffs 15 is a great reachable par 5.  As you crest the hill while approaching the landing spot for your drive you see the expanse of water in the distance and the beginning of an amazing stretch of closing holes along the ocean.  If this hole doesn't get your pulse racing then you are playing the wrong sport.

[Brian Finn]

1 - Sand Hills, Spanish Bay
2 - Royal Aberdeen
3 - Royal Cinque Ports
4 - Bethpage Black
...
6 - Sunningdale New
...
9 - Muirfield (HCEG)
...
12 - Plainfield
14 - Sand Hills, Old Course
15 - Muirfield Village
16 - Sand Hills
17 - Prairie Dunes
18 - Pacific Dunes

[Michael Felton]

1 - Sunningdale Old (can't think of hardly anywhere that starts with a 5)
2 - St Georges NY
3 - Deal
4 - BPB
5 - Shinnecock
6 - Hudson National (struggling to think of many 6th holes that are par fives)
7 - PV
8 - Brancaster
9 - WFW
10 - Sunningdale Old
11 - TPC Sawgrass
12 - WFW
13 - Augusta (only one on this list I haven't played, but making an exception here)
14 - RSG
15 - PV
16 - WHO
17 - Muirfield
18 - NGLA

[Jeff Schley]

3 - Essex County Club (MA.)17 - Royal Melbourne (East)
Couple which weren't mentioned before.

[Mike Baillie]

Must be room for one or more of the set at Cape Breton Highlands Links.  The par 5s are as good a set anywhere like Muirfield.

#6 not sure the drainage issues addressed          likely trails Pebble 6
#7
#15 my fav there          right up with Cabot Cliffs 15
#16 perhaps the weakest of the 4 there but still a very good hole

[Mark Pritchett]

1.  Wade Hampton
2.  Peachtree
3.  Camden CC
4.  Oakmont
5.  Great Dunes
6.  Shoal Creek
7.  PV
8.  Crystal Downs
9.  Bandon Trails


10.  Ballyhack
11.  Tobacco Road
12.  Pacific Dunes
13.  ANGC
14.  LACC
15.  Boston Golf
16.  Bandon Dunes
17.  Riviera
18.  Pebble Beach


These were close:


1.  Sand Hills
2.  Sycamore Hills
3.  Essex County
4.  Bethpage Black
5.  Pinehurst No. 2
6.  MPCC Shore
7.  Trinity Forest
8.  Ballyneal
9.  Kinloch


10.  Pasatiempo
11.  Ohoopee
12.  Sleepy
13.  Dunes Club
14.  Harbour Town
15.  Muirfield Village
16.  TPC Sawgrass
17.  Cal Club
18.  Lawsonia

[Joel Pear]

#11-Shinnecock   

[mark chalfant]

1 Boston GC
2 Kiawah Ocean
3 Ridgewood
4 Chicago
5 Cypress Point
6 Whippoorwill
7 Kittansett
8 Century
9 Sebonack


10 NCR
11 Bayside
12 Interlachen
13 St. Louis
14 Sand Hills
15 Shoreacres
16 Desert Forest
17 Glen Head
18 Harrison Hills
 

[Tim Martin]

1. Tobacco Road
2. Knickerbocker
3. George Wright
4. Lahinch
5. Schuyler Meadow
6. Piping Rock
7. Ekwanok
8. Salem
9. Wykagyl
10. Kirtland
11. Kiawah Ocean
12. Plainfield
13. Lancaster
14. Keney Park
15. Pine Valley
16. Canterbury
17. Old Town
18. Yale

[Adam Clayman]

Mike DeVries first at Greywalls is a rollercoaster of a ride. Perfectly setting the tone of the story about to unfold.