This post is almost 10 years old and there should be many new additions.
Joel, in terms of additions, I've mentioned some below (though they aren't exactly new), but having just read Noel's piece, I'm certainly in agreement on at least one of his choices. I just returned from a long weekend at Kingsley, and the 13th hole may have been my favorite hole on the course, except for maybe number 2.....and all the other holes on the course (I really loved this course). Below is a link to Tim Bert's excellent write up and ensuing discussion of the 13th hole. It's a short par four with a wild green.
http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,37381.msg805472.html#msg805472The most difficult pin position is probably the very back finger of the green, which can't be more than seven or eight yards wide, and is difficult to putt to from almost every other part of the green. Fortunately, at the request of our host, the superintendent cut an extra pin back there for the duration of the weekend, so each time we played it, we had the option to play to that pin. Par was an excellent score. Tim's last two photos capture this portion of the green pretty well. In one play, I was putting from the left fringe for birdie. I walked to the green with both putter and sand wedge. I had no intention of playing that shot with a wedge, but the likelihood of putting the ball past the pin into the back left bunker was so high, it seemed prudent to bring it along.
Though I did manage a few pars to that pin, my most memorable play was the first time we played to it. I drove the ball into the front bunker, leaving a 50 yard shot from a greenside trap! I left it a bit short, and it trickled into the left bunker. I blasted out from there over the green into the back right bunker, which may be the most difficult from which to get up and down. I hit the bunker shot of my life to a few feet for a rare "three bunker bogey".
Other favorite 13th holes not mentioned already:
Cog Hill is a personal favorite (and the one I've played the most), especially now that the baranca has been restored in front of the green. It's a real bear from the gold tees, and no pushover from the blues and whites. Of course, I may be biased because the shot I holed from 185 yards there earlier this year.
Riviera, a par four which calls for a draw from the tee, and a cut from the fairway, with plenty of trouble left.
Lawsonia Links, with the echelon bunkers framing a really beautiful tee shot, followed by the decision of playing down the valley with a shorter blind approach, or laying back higher with a better view, but a much longer approach.