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John Kavanaugh

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Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« on: January 17, 2013, 09:46:58 PM »
The bragging threads bore me to tears.  Please name you favorite hole on a course that we could care less that you played.

I really love the 18th at Evansville Country Club.  Nice little dog leg where you can cut the corner to get near an elevated green.  I think Ron Kern may have been involved in the latest revision of the course.


Mac Plumart

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2013, 09:50:08 PM »
12 Askernish

Dual fairway par 5 with a green that slants away from you.
« Last Edit: January 18, 2013, 06:58:36 PM by Mac Plumart »
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Dan Moore

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2013, 09:52:27 PM »
The par 4 6th at Spring valley.  Peninsula tee box presenting a wee bit of a cape effect for the drive.  Uphill to the landing area then a mid-iron into a great Langford Moreau green.  In fact just playing holes 4, 5, 6 and 7 at Spring Valley are worth every nickel of the $22 prime time weekend  green fee. 
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Mike Benham

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2013, 09:54:23 PM »

2nd at Pasatiempo

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Mike Wagner

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2013, 09:56:59 PM »
#6 SkyRidge

Josh Tarble

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2013, 09:58:43 PM »
John, you may have played or heard of this one...

#4 at Heartland Crossing in Indy. Drivable par 4, but you must hit a cut and carry a really deep group of bunkers. I've eagled it and I've X-ed it.

jeffwarne

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2013, 10:00:07 PM »
The bragging threads bore me to tears.  Please name you favorite hole on a course that we could care less that you played.

I really love the 18th at Evansville Country Club.  Nice little dog leg where you can cut the corner to get near an elevated green.  I think Ron Kern may have been involved in the latest revision of the course.



#8 Goat Hill, although it doesn't really qualify because I've been bragging about The Goat for years.
Driveable par 4 with a 30-40 foot rise directly in front of the tee, Low ball hitters need not apply.
then a dip and another rise about 240-250 out that funnels shorter drives down behind a single tree on the left side that divids it from the shared "fairway" with previous hole.
Over that rise is a spine where balls just left of perfect roll across the previous fairway until they find a bit of friction to slow them down in the rough or they simply roll against a wall of undergrowth.
Perfect drive tumbles down onto the green (over into death if super firm and or down breeze)
Slightly right stays right leaving a nasty, speed gathering , pitch that has to merely bumble onto the green after rolling through the uncertain "turf" that is Goat Hill, or it's gone.
Narrowest 100 yard wide fairway anywhere ;D
Can't think of a bad hole there.
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jim_lewis

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2013, 10:03:38 PM »
The great Dizzy Dean said "It ain't bragging when you done done it."

The Landings at Skidaway Island Marshwood Course #12
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Jeb Bearer

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2013, 10:12:49 PM »
Good call on The Landings Jim. I would also nominate #9 Plantation. Short par five with the marsh all down the left. To reach the green you have to thread the second shot through a corridor of trees and over a finger of marsh, or you can play out to the left and go around. It's an exhilarating hole, in the middle of a great stretch of golf.

jonathan_becker

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2013, 10:28:04 PM »
12 at Rustic Canyon

Jeff Bertch

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2013, 10:30:11 PM »

Kavanaugh and Tarble,

Are you guys Hoosiers? This is one of my favorites.

Wolf Run Golf Club, Hole #5; 450 yard Par 4     

- Risk/reward tee shot: 20 feet uphill with two bukers on the corner (bite off as much as you want!)
- Downhill second shot to a green that is pitched from front-right to back-left
     - greenside left drops off severely, right is very well bunkered as you can see





**image borrowed from C. Squier
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David Ober

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2013, 10:43:47 PM »

Kavanaugh and Tarble,

Are you guys Hoosiers? This is one of my favorites.

Wolf Run Golf Club, Hole #5; 450 yard Par 4     

- Risk/reward tee shot: 20 feet uphill with two bukers on the corner (bite off as much as you want!)
- Downhill second shot to a green that is pitched from front-right to back-left
     - greenside left drops off severely, right is very well bunkered as you can see


**image borrowed from C. Squier

That's a great looking hole!

David_Elvins

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2013, 10:45:39 PM »
This week its the 18th at Healesville.  350 yards or so from the back tee.  



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Mark Saltzman

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2013, 10:48:06 PM »
David, that looks very cool.  Green looks an awful lot like Nicklaus' greens at 18 at Valhalla and 9 at North Palm Beach CC

David_Elvins

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2013, 10:54:37 PM »
David, that looks very cool.  Green looks an awful lot like Nicklaus' greens at 18 at Valhalla and 9 at North Palm Beach CC
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Chris Kane

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2013, 11:02:31 PM »

Tom ORourke

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2013, 11:03:10 PM »
#18 at Half Moon Bay. 533 yard par 5. Very much like #18 at PB, and not just because it is on the same ocean, but more elevation. Great views, reachable for big hitters, precision needed to avoid the rough for shorter hitters.

Alex Miller

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2013, 11:03:30 PM »
12 at Rustic Canyon

THIEF!

That may be my favorite green complex anywhere.

John Mayhugh

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2013, 11:04:12 PM »
Not sure whose rankings are used to determine unranked, so I'll play it safe - the 18th at Kington.

Tom_Doak

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2013, 11:10:12 PM »
The bragging threads bore me to tears.  Please name you favorite hole on a course that we could care less that you played.

John:

I can come up with lots of favorite holes on "unranked" courses.  The first one that popped into mind was the 13th hole at The Addington.

But, the way you phrased the question past the headline was different, and caused a dilemma.  If a course really has a hole good enough to be one of my favorites, you probably ought to care about it ... whether or not you're impressed.  Indeed, the whole point of my traveling to see so many courses was my belief that if a course had even one outstanding and memorable hole, it was worth seeing. 

Mark Saltzman

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2013, 11:14:19 PM »
This is a good one on a course that is most certainly not ranked...






Ken Fry

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2013, 11:15:18 PM »
Country Club of Pittsfield, Pittsfield, MA 10th hole.  It plays only 370 yards from the back tee but the shot plays downhill framed by the majestic hills of Berkshire County.  Watching the ball travel away with the hillside as the backdrop is absolutely gorgeous.

Ken

Will Spivey

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #22 on: January 17, 2013, 11:20:08 PM »
No. 2 at Pinebrook CC in Winston-Salem.  A great par 3.  I also love No. 9 at Pinebrook, a reasonable facsimile of Augusta Nationals 18th.  Not bad for about $30/round.

Josh Tarble

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #23 on: January 17, 2013, 11:23:26 PM »
This week its the 18th at Healesville.  350 yards or so from the back tee.  





This hole looks amazing...is the rest of the course that cool?

David_Elvins

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Re: Your single favorite hole on an unranked course...
« Reply #24 on: January 17, 2013, 11:50:26 PM »
This hole looks amazing...is the rest of the course that cool?

I am biased because I am a member there, but I think the entire course is unbelievably cool. 

The greens are wild in places but they all fit together as a group and fit in with the land they are on. 

There are more interesting shots on the course and more shots I look forward to playing than on any other course I have played (a few world top 100 courses excepted). 

Oh, but it's only 5300 yards long so it's not a 'real course'.  ;)

Photos from Mike Cocking and Matthew Mollica in this thread go some way to showing off the course but it is so much fun to play in person.

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