Favorite Tee Box - Non-Ocean Division

[Pat Alpaugh]

11th tee at the Brantford G & C C, The Club at North Halton and King's Forest.  Also agree with the 10th tee at Kirtland

[Tim Leahy]

3rd at Olympic you can see the GG Bridge and city of SF. If a Bay doesn't count as ocean then the 15th at Lake Chabot in the Oakland hills. On a clear day you can see both bridges, GG and Bay as well as the city of SF.

[V. Kmetz]

Yale's 1st is awe-inspiring and a little terrifying the first time... the 9th is even moreso...


Merion's 1st is the "clubbiest,"...its 17th looks dangerous and impossible.


Riviera's 1st feels...
 "most correct"...a little wing of ledge off to the left of the property that's going to route like a ribbon across the sloping canuon floor... it's 10th feels thematic for the course...

[MClutterbuck]

This thread needs photos...

[Rob Marshall]

first at Portstewart

[Matt Frey, PGA]

A couple of my favorites, based less on facility atmosphere and more on the grand scale of the natural surrounds, are at the Lake Placid Club.

The first tee on the Links Course offers a beautiful view across the course, which sits in an impressive valley, and looks east into the beautiful Adirondack Mountains. It provides a glimpse of how expansive the mountain range is. You feel very small here, which is a wonderful feeling to have, in my opinion. Here's a photo from an early morning round in August 2017:



It's Mountain Course also has a couple of impressive views of the Adirondack surrounds. A couple of my favorite tees on this course appear consecutively: Nos. 7 and 8, a par-5 and a par-3 that offer unique views of the magnificent Whiteface Mountain. The below photos appear on the same day in August 2017, closer to midday.

[Kalen Braley]

The back tee on #17 at Redlands Mesa is pretty awesome.

It would also fit in a "places on golf courses where you could die" thread.

WW

Wade,


Yes a great tee box visual!  I know Engh don't get much love here, but he creates dramatic tee box views...I could easily list another half dozen of his...

[Peter Gannon]

#14 at Bandon Trails.


Runner ups:
#11 on LACC North
#5 at Bethpage 

[Thomas Dai]

Kington's 18th



Welshpool's 18th


For further photos and more see -
Kington - http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,30926.0.html
&
Welshpool - http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,63739.0.html
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Photos by SRA

[Kalen Braley]

Tee shot on 17 at Redlands Mesa





Tee shot on 8 at Lakota Canyon

[mike_beene]

Rethinking this: one of my favorite 3 places in the world is the first tee at The Old Course. And I don't consider it an ocean tee. So why would I first say Southern Hills? It's is cool but in a different league.

[Scott Weersing]

The back tee on #17 at Redlands Mesa is pretty awesome.

It would also fit in a "places on golf courses where you could die" thread.

WW

I am surprised that Wade did not say no. 2 tee at Ballyhack. Width, centerline bunkers, and a view.


I like no. 3 at Old Mac with the ghost tree. It is a blind tee shot but you know there are a lot of fun things coming soon.

[Bill Crane]

John:     Here is one you know well - the 17th at Springdale!   With Chestnuts falling off the old tree and the Dinky horn in your backswing across Alexander Rd.    Best hole at SGC.
Old #1 is also a good one - teeing off next to the old clubhouse with Cleveland Tower next to the green.
How about Merion #1, like teeing off in an Edwardian garden party.

[Ed Brzezowski]

Ledgerocks 18th in the fall is great. Merions 16th anytime of the year.

[Derek Holland]

This is kind of cheating but #13 or #15 at Northland CC

[James Brown]

6 on Sunningdale New

[John Ezekowitz]

John:     Here is one you know well - the 17th at Springdale!   With Chestnuts falling off the old tree and the Dinky horn in your backswing across Alexander Rd.    Best hole at SGC.
Old #1 is also a good one - teeing off next to the old clubhouse with Cleveland Tower next to the green.
How about Merion #1, like teeing off in an Edwardian garden party.

Springdale has some great ones. I am partial to #4 (or is it #9?) since the tree removal behind the green and to #6, teeing off in the shadow of the tower with people playing soccer or volleyball adjacent.

[Mike Hendren]

From the 17th tee at Lawsonia Links one has an uninterrupted vista of the back nine from which its nine flags can be spotted..

Bogey

[Bill Crane]

John:     Here is one you know well - the 17th at Springdale!   With Chestnuts falling off the old tree and the Dinky horn in your backswing across Alexander Rd.    Best hole at SGC.
Old #1 is also a good one - teeing off next to the old clubhouse with Cleveland Tower next to the green.
How about Merion #1, like teeing off in an Edwardian garden party.

Springdale has some great ones. I am partial to #4 (or is it #9?) since the tree removal behind the green and to #6, teeing off in the shadow of the tower with people playing soccer or volleyball adjacent.

You are referring to #5 (Old #9).  Great views of the old clubhouse, Cleveland Tower, Princeton Theological Seminary,  Forbes College (the former Princeton Inn) and Lake Listerine - named in honor of prominent member Gerard Lambert.   
The scene looks incredibly British despite being in Central NJ.  I will have to find a way to post a few shots.

[Tim Martin]

John:     Here is one you know well - the 17th at Springdale!   With Chestnuts falling off the old tree and the Dinky horn in your backswing across Alexander Rd.    Best hole at SGC.
Old #1 is also a good one - teeing off next to the old clubhouse with Cleveland Tower next to the green.
How about Merion #1, like teeing off in an Edwardian garden party.

The Edwardian Era was over more than one hundred years ago. Are you a time traveler?

[Mike Benham]

From the 16th tee box, Sand Hills Golf Club

[Tommy Williamsen]

I will go with the iconic fourth at Royal County Down. Between the gorse and the Mourne Mts, it is stunning.

[Wayne_Kozun]

I don't think it is used anymore but there was a very cool tee box for the par 3 12th hole at Glen Abbey that was kind of perched on the side of a cliff.


It is in the top right of this photo:

[Ira Fishman]

I would add Number 5 at the River Course at Kohler and Number 18 at Mid Pines to the nominations that I made previously.


Ira

[Jay Mickle]

I find the 1st at Tobacco Road to be one of the finest starts. Surely not the friendly handshake one might expect but perhaps the most rewarding when you find the fairway between the hills. Unforgettable!