Best Golf Hole You Saw This Year

[Cory Lewis]

I'll take the three hole approach and say:

Par 3-Tie #4 NGLA, #9 Yale

Par 4-#4 Fishers Island

Par 5-Tie #7 Ekwanok, #4 Bethpage Black

[Mark_Fine]

You guys are impressive listing the best holes you saw this year.  I'm still struggling trying to figure out the best golf course I saw this year let alone the best single hole.  Maybe you all should become raters  

[Don_Mahaffey]

Not much traveling for me this year due to my new venture.
But, I did get to Lubbock to see one very good golf course. Best hole, IMO,

#3 at The Rawls Course at Texas Tech

[cary lichtenstein]

So many holes, so little time

[Tommy Williamsen]

#7 the European Club--Ireland
#3&7 Kinglsey club
#8 & 17 Crystal Downs
#12 Four Streams
#14 Shinnecock

[W.H. Cosgrove]

#18 Moray Golf Club Lossiemouth.

Quirky and wonderful, this is a standout!

[Jeff_Perryman]

#8 at Crumpin-Fox in Bernardston, MA..thoroughly loved having the wheels taken off my round by it....  Par 5 risk-reward by the much reviled RR

[Paul Richards]

The just-restored fifth hole at Beverly CC in Chicago is the best hole I've seen so far this year!!

Ron Prichard has taken an excellent, uphill, 418-yard four par through a bowling-lane of trees and with a tweak here-and-there to the Ross hole, he has added a fairway bunker left, moved the fairway a tad right, removed some trees along the right and after restoring the bunkers that were there, placed another into the hillside left and - voila! - the best hole I've seen all year!

Can't wait to actually play it!!!!

[JDoyle]

14th at Sand Hills.....WOW!  

Honorable mention goes to the 12th at Wannamoisett and the 14th at Kiawah's Ocean Course.

[DTaylor18]

JD, what about Winged Foot West #10?!  One of the best 4 irons i ever saw.

For me, some of the top ones were

Somerset Hills #2
Baltimore Country Club #10
Friar's Head #10
Pebble Beach #8
All of Garden City

[Steve Lapper]

#18 Moray Golf Club Lossiemouth.

Quirky and wonderful, this is a standout!

Absolutely great hole! Isn't that green a piece of work. Hope you didn't have too many RAF strafings that day>

Slapper

[Chris_Clouser]

If I had to pick one hole, I'd say the one that I like the best was the 13th at Crystal Downs.

Others of note were the 10th at Rolling Green, 12th at Southern Hills, 5th at Old Town.

[Dan Herrmann]

Favorites this year:#15 - French Creek, #14 at Rolling Green

Favorites all time: #11 Pacific Dunes, #11 at Riverside GC in Portland, OR (H Chandler Egan design)

[redanman]

For Starters
Seen this year for the first time
(Sans descriptions)

Fours-short
#15 French Creek
#12 The "Udder" course *
#18 Carnegie Abbey
#6 Pac Dunes*

Fours-long
#6 The Golf Club
#12 French Creek
#4 Pac Dunes
#5 Bandon
#15 Bethpage Black

Fives
#9 Carnegie Abbey*
#8 CC Fairfield
#4 Bethpage Black

Threes
#4 Shennecossett (Volcano)*
#8 SHCC
#14 Pac Dunes* (Thanks Scott, wish I could count holes.  Can only count words in a post)
#3 Bethpage Black


Worst

#1 Woodstone (Winner out of several)

To name a few.  Hard to pick one.

[Mike_Sweeney]

Par 3 - 16th @ Cypress - made par  

Par 4 - 8th @ Pebble - made par  

Par 5 - 18th @ NGLA - made par, and round 2 - made and X

The X was in the difficult condition of November's outing. Maybe I should only play great courses and great holes  as I am not making those scores on the other courses.

[THuckaby2]

(PS -- When Huckaby gets around to responding to this after yet another sojourn on the Clorox watch spent rating a CCFAD in NorCal  , the Vegas line on holes mentioned is 5 1/2.)  

I'll take the over.  (smiley, smiley...)

Ha!  Fooled you both.  I read this yesterday and figured there's no way I can single out any one hole, so I didn't respond.  Still won't.  To thine own self be true...  

TH

[John_Lovito]

For me the best were:

#7 & #14 Friars Head

#8 Pebble

# 7 SFGC

# 16 Pasatiempo

[Scratch_Nathan]

9 at Maidstone
11 at Hidden Creek
9 and 17 at Jupiter Hills
1-18 at NGLA
5,7,9,10,14,15 at Friar's Head
15 at East Hampton
9,10,11,14,15,16,18 at Shinnecock

I know, I know... lots of holes.

[Scott_Burroughs]

redanman,

Last I saw, #13 at Pac Dunes was a par 4.  I think you probably mean #14 as the top par 3.

[Bruce Katona]

#9 at Yale, especially with the pin on the back tier. 2 Putting from the valley through the middle of the green is a tremendous task.

[THuckaby2]

many thanks to my hero and idol Mr. Cirba - I have my answer:

The 16th at Cypress Point.

With a four-ball made up of Lou Duran, Tom Huckaby, Geoffrey Childs, and myself, only the merry Irishman's ball stayed dry.

Obviously not a hole that adequately separates the wheat from the chaff.  

[Dan_Callahan]

Par 3: Orchards #7; TPC River Highlands #16

Par 4: Orchards #13; Shennecossett #16

Par 5: Crumpin Fox #8; Wampanoag #4

[texsport]

The Quarry @ Giants Ridge #13.

Par 4 323yards.


Texsport

[Bill Gayne]

I saw/played some great holes in person. However, some of the best stuff that I saw were the pictures that have been posted on GCA.com.

The pictures of Friars Head and Sand Hills were particularily good. The best picture hole though was the black and white original fortress hole at Yale. I loved all the Yale phoos.

Capturing the nuances of a golf hole in a photograph can be difficult. I think most of the pictures posted were by amateur photographers and they were great. Keep the pictures coming.

[Jim Franklin]

Modern: #7 Friars Head
Classic: #5 Oakmont