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Evan_Green

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World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« on: November 20, 2006, 12:13:36 PM »
I'll nominate The Postage Stamp and #7 Pebble to start.

Other nominations please...

Geoffrey_Walsh

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2006, 12:20:42 PM »
Merion (West) #6

Brad Tufts

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2006, 12:21:00 PM »
What about the 2-or-20 hole in semi-rotation at Engineers (corrected) and the 90-yarder at the resort in the Poconos?

I have played neither, so we will have to rely on others for expert analysis...

#12 at The Country Club is pretty decent at 125-130, a very small green with falloffs on all sides...this hole is removed for the Composite course...
« Last Edit: November 21, 2006, 12:46:45 PM by Brad Tufts »
So I jump ship in Hong Kong....

Paul Payne

Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2006, 12:25:28 PM »
Would you allow a squeeze at 132 yards for #17 at Sawgrass?

Evan_Green

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2006, 12:26:44 PM »
Sorry Paul

2 yards too long!

Otherwise I would have added Cypress #15 at 135 yards too...

Have to draw the line somewhere!!  ;)
« Last Edit: November 20, 2006, 12:26:59 PM by Evan_Green »

Michael Robin

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2006, 12:27:23 PM »
Some Down Under candidates - 7th at Royal Melbourne West, 7th at Barnbougle. 13th at Kidnappers is pretty great too.
« Last Edit: November 20, 2006, 12:35:40 PM by Michael Robin »

Paul Payne

Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2006, 12:28:56 PM »
As Seinfeld would say through clenched teeth with clenched fist....

"EVAN!"

RJ_Daley

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2006, 12:44:07 PM »
Sorry, gotta be a homer... 11 - Wild Horse. ;D

OK, 7 Pebble...agreed. ;D
« Last Edit: November 20, 2006, 12:44:49 PM by RJ_Daley »
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Matt_Cohn

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2006, 12:47:51 PM »
"Interview with Mike Strantz, June 2000

5. What is your favorite short par three (under 140 yards), par four (under 340 yards) and par five (under 500 yards) that you did not design?

      Pretty tough to list just one – so I won’t --

      Par 3 under 140 yards

      #7 Pebble Beach

      #10 Pine Valley

      #8 Olympic Club

      #6 National Golf Links

      #15 Cypress Point

      #7 Royal County Down"


David Stamm

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2006, 12:49:56 PM »
Evan,
 

   For courses I've played the first that comes to mind is the 15th at Spyglass (That tree on the left kills me!).
"The object of golf architecture is to give an intelligent purpose to the striking of a golf ball."- Max Behr

Sean Leary

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2006, 01:13:40 PM »
Brad,

2 or 20 is at Engineers.

Engineers, Manufacturers, potato, poTATo..

RJ_Daley

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2006, 01:22:40 PM »
Crystal Downs 14 ain't too shabby.

PS: oops, sorry it is in the 140s. :-[
« Last Edit: November 20, 2006, 01:24:47 PM by RJ_Daley »
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Dan Boerger

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2006, 01:32:20 PM »
Walton Heath New #2 - devilish if there's any wind around ...
"Man should practice moderation in all things, including moderation."  Mark Twain

ForkaB

Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2006, 01:37:24 PM »
11th at Applebrook (Pennsylvania)
15th at Il Picciolo (Sicily)
5th at Painswick (England)
10th at Painswick (England)

I am sure there are more.....
« Last Edit: November 20, 2006, 02:04:56 PM by Rich Goodale »

Jason Topp

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2006, 01:39:38 PM »
I've posted this before, but here is the one from Barnbougle:


Tim Leahy

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #15 on: November 20, 2006, 02:20:17 PM »
Splyglass Hill #3
I love golf, the fightin irish, and beautiful women depending on the season and availability.

cary lichtenstein

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #16 on: November 20, 2006, 02:24:59 PM »
#9 Myopia Hunt Club
Live Jupiter, Fl, was  4 handicap, played top 100 US, top 75 World. Great memories, no longer play, 4 back surgeries. I don't miss a lot of things about golf, life is simpler with out it. I miss my 60 degree wedge shots, don't miss nasty weather, icing, back spasms. Last course I played was Augusta

mike_malone

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #17 on: November 20, 2006, 02:25:46 PM »
 I always nominate #4 at Gulph Mills Golf Club. Is that green  Ross or Maxwell?
AKA Mayday

Aaron Katz

Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #18 on: November 20, 2006, 02:26:35 PM »
Third hole on Olympic's Cliff's Course (par 3 course).

Matthew Hunt

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #19 on: November 20, 2006, 02:46:11 PM »
5th on RCD's Annesley Links(second Course)


 :)

A.G._Crockett

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #20 on: November 20, 2006, 03:09:03 PM »
#9 at Caledonia; though it feels out of place in the routing and somewhat shoehorned, it is a great hole nonetheless.
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Tom Dunne

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #21 on: November 20, 2006, 03:12:07 PM »
I first thought of the Bad Baby at Jasper Park, but upon closer inspection it's 8 yards too long. A couple of definite contenders: the sixth at Royal Ashdown Forest, with its proto-island green, and the seventh at Royal Porthcawl, which can be savage in a crosswind and is ringed by some particularly nasty pot bunkers.

john_stiles

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #22 on: November 20, 2006, 03:12:29 PM »

#9 at Kingsley Club

Mike_Cirba

Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #23 on: November 20, 2006, 03:13:34 PM »
13 at Merion East
6 at Merion West
5 at French Creek
11 at Applebrook
2 or 20 at Engineers
7 at Nine Flags (the course I grew up on)

Robert_Ball

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Re:World's Best Sub 130 yard par 3 holes...
« Reply #24 on: November 20, 2006, 03:19:25 PM »
#9 at Point Judith

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