18-hole courses you could play with just 1 club and 1 ball

[Thomas Dai]

The just published splendid review of Castle Stuart on the Courses by Country section herein got me wondering about courses you could play an 18-hole medal play event using just 1-club and 1 ball and some thoughtful course management.

I'm thinking a hybrid club, but it could be a long iron or any other club.

TOC is obviously one course, looks like Castle Stuart is another. Westward Ho!/RND and Minchinhampton Old would also I imagine be candidates.

Medal play though - just 1-club and 1 ball - a lost ball and you're walking off the course!

What would be others?

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[Ally Mcintosh]

In August, I went out for a late evening one club, one ball stroll at Crail. Very pleasant.

[Bill_McBride]

Which club Ally?  Did you get in any of those bunkers?   

[Bill Seitz]

Any course without a lot of really deep native right off of narrow fairways, and no lengthy forced carries. Pretty easy to do this at Kingsley if you can get past the second hole.

[Mike_Clayton]

Pedrena.

[JMEvensky]

Pedrena.

 

[Ronald Montesano]

Pedrena.

3-iron

[Thomas Dai]

Folk may like to watch this video from 1984 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlh5E9SVxiE

Enjoy.



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[Mike_Clayton]

Brian

We played the Spanish Open there in 1988 - the course is good but hardly one of Colt's best. It is a perfect course to learn to play with long threes and short fives to test long irons and a bunch of short holes to learn the wedges. Seve would have probably developed a much different game if he had learned elsewhere - mind you the movie documents how much he learned the game by playing on the beach.

If you are a golf tragic Pedrena is a village well worth the effort to see.

[Jon Cavalier]

We have several one-club tournaments on the Nemours course at DuPont.

Hybrid is the typical choice. A buddy of mine went out and won the last tournament by shooting 42 over 9 holes with a hybrid, then promptly shot 50 the next day over the same 9 with his full bag.

[Blake Conant]

Played dismal red with a 7 iron last year. Lots of forward tees were used.

[Mike_Clayton]

Brian

I did - maybe 10 rounds. The best was the first 2 rounds of the 1983 Australian Masters at Huntingdale with Norman.They were incredible players obviously.
He was ripping it but not putting so well. His caddy was a Spanish pro Manuel Ramos who told me 'don't worry, it will be fine by Augusta'
It was.

Huntingdale was a tight course were players didn't use the driver much but he drove brilliantly. He was a beautiful driver of the ball - not the wild hitter most assume he was.

[Mike_Clayton]

No one close to Seve for me.

[Bill_McBride]

No one close to Seve for me.

Fully agree.   Loved the Ryder Cups with Seve and Olazabal dominating. 

[Joe Zucker]

When I worked in the bagroom at Westwood CC outside of Cleveland, we played a lot of one club golf in the late evenings.  It was never anything too serious, just for a couple bucks with the assistant pros, but it was close to the most fun I've ever had on a course.  All scoring expectations are gone and creativity is paramount.

We usually hit it around with a five iron because that gave us options more options than a hybrid on shorter par 3s.  There were really only two holes where losing a ball was a possibility, 4 and 17.  A long iron worked everywhere else.

[Matt MacIver]

Pick a Ross, (nearly) any Ross. But #2 with a 2i would work for a scratch, my rescue or a 7i for me.

[jeffwarne]

Brian

I did - maybe 10 rounds. The best was the first 2 rounds of the 1983 Australian Masters at Huntingdale with Norman.They were incredible players obviously.
He was ripping it but not putting so well. His caddy was a Spanish pro Manuel Ramos who told me 'don't worry, it will be fine by Augusta'
It was.

Huntingdale was a tight course were players didn't use the driver much but he drove brilliantly. He was a beautiful driver of the ball - not the wild hitter most assume he was.

+1-never got the credit he deserved for his driving.
1983 Masters was a epic display-we ran out of high green numbers on the scoreboard when he took it to 18, 19 under before falling off late

[astavrides]

How would you deal with the burn at #1 on TOC with only a hybrid or long iron? Maybe Seve could do it, but I don't think I could.

[Daniel Jones]

It's a family tradition to venture out onto our home course (Ocala Golf Club) with one club on Christmas Day. I've always gone with the 5 or 7i, but the mentions of a hybrid here have me rethinking my strategy!

[Matt MacIver]

How would you deal with the burn at #1 on TOC with only a hybrid or long iron? Maybe Seve could do it, but I don't think I could.

I love a challenge!  For the only shot of its kind on the course I would err long and be hoping for hard par, easy bogey. Then again, I always hope for that!

[Pat Burke]

Mike
Seems Kingston Heath could be played whacking it around with a 7 iron?

Again, my sandbelt bias surfaces!

[Ronald Montesano]

How would you deal with the burn at #1 on TOC with only a hybrid or long iron? Maybe Seve could do it, but I don't think I could.

Well, laddie, you'd purposely bunt the club off the tee to leave yourself a full hybrid/long iron in.

[astavrides]

How would you deal with the burn at #1 on TOC with only a hybrid or long iron? Maybe Seve could do it, but I don't think I could.

Well, laddie, you'd purposely bunt the club off the tee to leave yourself a full hybrid/long iron in.

yeah, that's probably the ticket.

[Matt MacIver]

How would you deal with the burn at #1 on TOC with only a hybrid or long iron? Maybe Seve could do it, but I don't think I could.

Well, laddie, you'd purposely bunt the club off the tee to leave yourself a full hybrid/long iron in.

yeah, that's probably the ticket.

Spoken like a single digit. I try to get the ball as close to the hole as I can each and every swing, since I don't know when the next good one will present itself.

[Tom_Doak]

I think you could play a bunch of my courses with one club and one ball.

The only one I've actually tried it on is Old Macdonald.  I played a bunch of holes there one night using only my old Ping one-iron.