Okay, we've had people try to come up with the worst course. But how about the worst golf course "architectural" feature.
1) Three different courses that have "foul poles" on dogleg holes. On two of them, if your ball passes the pole on the wrong side, it's OB--even though there are no stakes or boundary. On the third, you MUST play around the pole, so if you cut too much off, you have to play backwards to get around the pole, like a sailboat that misses a mark.
2) A course with gravel cart paths down the middle of every fairway.
3) Two courses where the greens were built over existing sand greens based on advice to "crown them so they'll drain." They look like the top of someone's head.
4) The course where I made my first hole-in-one, which includes a short, easily driveable par four that has a long screen down the left side of the tee to prevent players from aiming at the green.
5) A course that has a driveable par four with the end of the local high school's football field impinging on the fairway, including the end zone, goalposts and part of the cinder track.
6) A pair of courses that have an abandoned barn/house in play. There's nothing like a blind lob wedge over an old farmhouse.
7) ALL of the courses that use interior OB to force players to go around a dogleg.
8 ) Two courses with a "water bunker" -- actually just a bunker-sized hole in the ground with water in it. The smallest water hazards I ever saw. One of them was a greenside bunker that always had water in it, so the owners let it grow up in cattails.
9) A sand-green course built around the local grass-strip airport, because that was the only place in town with gang mowers. (This also meant that every part of the course had to be dead flat.
10) A par three, where the green is virtually invisible from the tee, due to several large trees in the way. (The first time I played it, we had an argument about where the green actually was.)
Ken