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David Davis

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Mine is easy, anything long (requiring driver) with OB/Forest/Ball losing rough/water on the right with a hard left to right wind.

What's your's? Should I see this as genius architecture as it's the ultimate test for me?
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Pete Blaisdell

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2012, 07:41:14 AM »
Any hole that requires a long (200 yards +) over water or waste areas off the back or middle tees.
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Garland Bayley

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2012, 12:35:38 PM »
David,

Go play Persimmon. You will find my nightmares at 9 and 18.
"I enjoy a course where the challenges are contained WITHIN it, and recovery is part of the game  not a course where the challenge is to stay ON it." Jeff Warne

Mac Plumart

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2012, 01:41:30 PM »
Island greens.

I don't hit a lot of greens and, when playing well, my short game saves me a lot.  HOWEVER, with water by the greens up and downs are not possible.   :'(
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Mark_Rowlinson

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2012, 03:34:45 PM »
Anything requiring a left-to-right shape. I'm a left-handed slicer.

Tiger_Bernhardt

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2012, 03:57:12 PM »
Long forced carry tee shots have always been a problem for me. The par 3's at Medinah were all night mares to me. I have alway hated long par 3's over water.

Tony Ristola

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2012, 10:45:34 AM »
How to nicely tell clubs that island green holes (their signature hole), or holes that require carries most golfers cannot manage are unplayable and not really enjoyable for most golfers; especially women and seniors. In some areas an equivalent challenge are tree planting schemes that suffocate the course (or will given enough time) and how to "manage" them.

Mark McKeever

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2012, 11:34:14 AM »
Hitting up a steep immediate slope off the tee has always played with my mind.   

Mark
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Brian Colbert

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2012, 11:03:07 PM »
#6 at Pine Valley.

I should start by saying that I hit a draw. If I hit driver on that hole, no matter how far right I aim I invariably hit it through the fairway into the pines. I am rather uncomfortable hitting 3-wood off the tee and even if I do it is not a guarantee that I am able to hit over the crap on the right. I also am prone to a wild hook when I hit that club off the tee as my miss. Then there's the 2-iron. If I were to hit iron off the tee it would put the right crap into play and make the fairway narrower. I am also likely to miss with a wild hook when I hit 2-iron. Among other things there is a road and numerous diabolical bunkers and trees to the left of the entire fairway.

To quote Jason Segel, "THIS IS MY NIGHTMARE!"

Jim Colton

Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2012, 11:28:03 PM »
I'm about 0-for-25 lifetime on parring redans

Matthew Sander

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2012, 11:30:47 PM »
I'm about 0-for-25 lifetime on parring redans

Knowing your ball flight, that is just shocking! Where can you find a good reverse redan??

Joe_Tucholski

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2012, 12:17:52 AM »
Tee shot with significant elevation to a diagonal landing area.  I can't seem to judge the distance well and with the elevation I have a tough time tracking the ball so often loose a ball.

Bill_McBride

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #12 on: October 07, 2012, 01:09:06 AM »
Hitting up a steep immediate slope off the tee has always played with my mind.   

Mark

9th tee at Pacific Dunes?

Mark Chaplin

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #13 on: October 07, 2012, 02:36:44 AM »
Brian if you hook off PV #6 and go through the trees towards the seventh fairway you can end up with a very tricky shot off a path!!
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Brian Colbert

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #14 on: October 07, 2012, 09:39:34 AM »
Brian if you hook off PV #6 and go through the trees towards the seventh fairway you can end up with a very tricky shot off a path!!

Actually the first time I played it I hit it so far through the fairway that I had an open shot at the green from the rough. Just had to hit it over a few trees.

John Chilver-Stainer

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #15 on: October 08, 2012, 08:14:44 AM »
Hitting off a sloped fairway, falling right to left, to a green cut into the same hill.

Knowing that - if/when I slice - I’ve got to walk down the hill to play my ball and drag my clubs up again :P

Jim Sherma

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #16 on: October 09, 2012, 10:20:26 AM »
#6 at Pine Valley.

I should start by saying that I hit a draw. If I hit driver on that hole, no matter how far right I aim I invariably hit it through the fairway into the pines. I am rather uncomfortable hitting 3-wood off the tee and even if I do it is not a guarantee that I am able to hit over the crap on the right. I also am prone to a wild hook when I hit that club off the tee as my miss. Then there's the 2-iron. If I were to hit iron off the tee it would put the right crap into play and make the fairway narrower. I am also likely to miss with a wild hook when I hit 2-iron. Among other things there is a road and numerous diabolical bunkers and trees to the left of the entire fairway.

To quote Jason Segel, "THIS IS MY NIGHTMARE!"

I have similar problems with #18 at Hershey CC-West. It is similar in that it bends right, but the turning point is well before the landing zone and anything that misses right is dead. No matter what I try I can not seem to start the ball far enough right to keep from driving through the fairway. The hole is long enough and has a tough enough green complex that laying up to the bend leaves a more difficult shot than I would like.


Matthew Rose

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #17 on: October 09, 2012, 05:32:46 PM »

Middle-iron par-threes requiring a left to right shot. I am a natural drawer of the golf ball, particularly with middle irons.

A left to right tee-shot isn't as bad.... I tend to be able to work my driver a little better than most clubs.




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Gary Slatter

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #18 on: October 09, 2012, 10:35:10 PM »
I prefer a slight fade and have always had difficulty "seeing" a long par three with water on the left and bunkers on the right.  Used to play a hole in Sarnia Ontario that got me all the time.  Now I only get the same feeling entering a MRI machine.
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Stephen Davis

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Re: What type of hole represents your biggest challenge/worst nightmare?
« Reply #19 on: October 09, 2012, 10:44:11 PM »
I have two real killers. A forced carry off the tee straight into a strong headwind and reverse redan type greens. I cannot hit a fade with an iron to save my life.

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