Stairs on Notable Courses

[Lester George]

Considering the feasibility of stairs on the golf course.  Bunkers with stairs, greensides with stairs, tees that have stairs.  Some are formal (brick, stone, etc) some are not (railroad ties, landscaping timbers, etc) and so on.

What notable golf courses (maybe top 100 off some list) have stairs.  Which stairs are famous, noteworthy, infamous?

Please send examples (pictures) of your selections. Thanks

Lester

[jonathan_becker]

The walk up to #3 tee at Barnbougle



Greenside on #18 at Seminole

[Joey Chase]

I am sorry to say I do not have photos of Garden City.  It has several bunkers with stairs in them.  It was my first experience on such a course.  It almost has an intimidation factor seeing them as they elude to a deep floor.  I loved the bunkers there very much, and will never forget them. Also Woodhall Spa has several fantastic bunkers with stairs.  

[Adam Warren]

Someone else could confirm, but I seem to remember them at 14/15 at Valhalla.

[Bill_McBride]

Back of the 14th green up to the top of the hill, Friars Head.   You can see them in this photo but just barely.   It's a pretty good hike.   This takes you from the potato field holes back up to the dunes.

[Thomas Dai]

Walking down from the 10th tee at Cruden Bay holding on tight to a trolley lest it race ahead of you and crash down the hill - which I've seen happen more than once. A couple of others at CB, not counting up the hill on the 9th, but including down/up to the 14th green/15th tee, up to the 17th tee, and once upon a time, up the steep stepped ridge to the clubhouse which was truly delightful when you were knackered after 18-holes in severe wind/rain and you have to pull a trolley up the steps as well. Happy days in a paradise like spot.
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[Jim_Coleman]

     We have stairs entering the front greenside bunker on #5 at Rolling Green  ...  thanks, I must say, to me.  It took me 3 years to convince Jim Nagle.

[Joe Bausch]

     We have stairs entering the front greenside bunker on #5 at Rolling Green  ...  thanks, I must say, to me.  It took me 3 years to convince Jim Nagle.

Now I know who to blame.

 

[Michael Whitaker]

Some serious stairs... the 16th at Cape Kidnappers.


But, they do lead to this view!

[Garland Bayley]

Part of the stairs to the 14th tee at Pac Dunes can be seen in the background.

[Jonathan Mallard]

Ran has captured the stairs behind the 4th green to the 5th tee, and the much smaller set behind the 8th green to the 9th tee at Royal County Down in his course tour.

[Tim Martin]

Greenside bunker on # 2 at Yale.
Yale is loaded with sets of stairs to get out of bunkers and up on greens.

[Patrick_Mucci]

NGLA

[Bill Brightly]

NGLA

[Stephen Pellegrino]

There are some fairly significant timber stairs up to the 4th tee box at TCC. One could get winded climbing those stairs (no judgement please). The location of the original tee box (used in the 1913 US Open) is at the base of these wooden stairs, but the tee box is NLE.

-Stephen

[Matthew Mollica]

There are some stairs left of the 8th tee at Kingston Heath, allowing a view of the blind landing zone, as well as pin position on the nearby 9th green. I'll post a pic this time next week.

MM

[Eric Smith]

Old Macdonald


Pacific Dunes


Machrihanish Dunes


Prestwick


National Golf Links


True Blue


Sequatchie Valley

[Joey Chase]

Here are the stairs on the 5th at Woodhall Spa



And the stairs leading to the 17th green at Merion.  I think there is a famous photo of Bobby Jones walking down this staircase.

[Joey Chase]

There are a good number of stairs at Brancaster as well;

The stairs leading to the famous 5th green



The ninth green



And the 18th green

[Mark Pritchett]

Prairie Dunes

[Matthew Rose]

Seems like every Pete Dye course has at least one somewhere.

[James Boon]

I've always thought of STEPS (not stairs, to me that's short for a staircase, with stringers, inside etc) on golf courses as being a common feature. Steps up to tees or down into bunkers can be seen on most courses I can think of, especially links and the more rugged heathland courses.  

As for being famous, or infamous, perhaps we need to wait for the approach shot of an Open Championship contender to ricochet off some steps into a bunker and either into the long rough or up onto the green, before they reach such heights?

The 4th tee at Burnham & Berrow was the first set of steps that came to mind, followed by the steps up to the 6th tee at Cavendish, but there are plenty of others:

Royal Dornoch, 3rd Tee


Royal Dornoch, 8th Tee


Castle Stuart, 11th Tee


Brancaster has those shown previously by Joey though I think that the 4th green? But again, so many other examples:

Brancaster, 10th Hole


Woodhall Spa, 3rd Hole


Ganton, 10th Hole


And finally, there are these steps at Painswick, 5th hole, up and over the Iron Age fortifications



Cheers,

James

[Jim Tang]

Here you go...



Stairs leading to Ballyneal's 15th



Stairs leading away from Ballyneal's 15th green



Arcadia Bluffs



Kingsley Club's 9th



Greywalls

[Neil White]

From reading and looking at the pictures it is fairly plain to see that some are able to create steps / stairs that are most attractive and sit well: -



and



some that are, well utilitarian in their appearance: -



and others that have you scratching your head as to why?

Ugly....?



and

[Thomas Dai]

Numerous examples above of wooden steps/stairs without astroturf nailed to them and with no handrails either. What will the health and safety lobby say (sic)!

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