Which par-4 would you gladly accept a 5 on?

[Thomas Dai]

As a follow-up to David’s thread on par-3’s you’d gladly accept a 4 ie - https://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,68656.0.html - which par-4’s would you* gladly accept a 5 on?
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You* means [size=78%]you please, not pros etc making a mess of a par-4 and losing a tournament or a Major![/size]

[David Ober]

From my mid-20's to my mid-40's I would have easily answered: "Not a single one."


Now, there are definitely a few, but I can't think of too many because my short game is generally good enough that if I'm within 20 yards of a green, I can still (usually) give myself a good look at par.


Let's put it this way: There are still none that I would "gladly" accept par on, but there are plenty that I would "grudgingly" accept par on. :-)

[Jeff Schley]

Thomas where is your list? Nothing is hard for you I bet. I'll limit to only those I have played.

• Torrey Pines South 12th - around 450 or so (not from the back) Plays into a stiff breeze to a well bunkered green.
• TOC The Road Hole - What can be said that already hasn't?
• Pebble Beach 8th hole - Just terrifying approach and typically blind for me.
• Royal County Down 9th hole - Long one and blind tee shot, the entire course is a blended nightmare for me but this one wakes me up more often than others in the middle of the night.
• Innwood GC (Joliet, Ill.) 2nd hole - short only about 330 dogleg left, but to an island green. Large trees surround your approach and need to be negotiated. Since you can rinse a couple approaches to a pretty small green, have great memories here.
• Trump National Los Angeles 9th hole - 470 slightly downhill with a huge bunker at the dogleg corner left. Large water hazard front and left of the green, need to come in with a draw. Also a three tiered green. When wind is in your face you realize you should have played a tee box up. 

[Thomas Dai]

Thomas where is your list? Nothing is hard for you I bet.

Just about any par-4 where I can’t get within approx 40 yds of the front edge in two shots and sometimes even closer than that.
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[Tim Martin]

2 Wannamoisett
5 CC of Waterbury
10 Shinnecock, Yale, Lancaster CC
15 Bethpage Black

[Ira Fishman]

There are several with water. Butler National 14 may be the scariest hole I have ever played. Without water:


Cog Hill 4 #13
Ballybunion 16
Lahinch 6
North Berwick 16
PH2 1
River Course Kingsmill 8


Ira

[Tom_Doak]

The Road Hole is the only par-4 I can think of in today's world where excellent players are content to play just to the front edge of the green with their second shots and try to get down in two from there.

[David Kelly]

#18 at Royal Dornoch
#17 at St. Andrews
#2 at Riviera

maybe...
#11 at Pasatiempo
#8 at Prairie Dunes

[Sean_A]

The Road Hole is the only par-4 I can think of in today's world where excellent players are content to play just to the front edge of the green with their second shots and try to get down in two from there.

Who cares about pros? Far too much about golf is based on pros.

Ciao

[Peter Flory]

The Road Hole is the only par-4 I can think of in today's world where excellent players are content to play just to the front edge of the green with their second shots and try to get down in two from there.

15 at Kingsley is in the same category I'd say, except that there is no front of the green to play for.  But I guess I'd take my chances at a 4, even though I just played there and made 5 three straight days...

[David_Tepper]

The 18th holes at Golspie, Harding Park and Royal Dornoch.

[Ian Mackenzie]

Road Hole at TOC - 17.
Road Hole at Shoreacres - 10
Road Hole at Chicago Golf Club - 2.


Foxy at RDGC - 14.

[Tim Gavrich]

Hole 9, PGA Golf Club (Dye)

[Thad Layton]

#17 @ Oakmont

[Carl Rogers]

Ballyhack 4, 5, 12, 14 & 16
Cascades 7, 9, 12, 13 & 14
Riverfront 1, 12 & 16
Dormie 4, 5, 8 & 13
Mid Pines 12
Streamsong Blue 4

[Jason Thurman]

My home course's opener is a 480 yard par 4. Only 470 from the white tees where most member play happens. The course record of 60 started with a 5, and I remind myself that every time I'm fortunate enough to make one of my own there.

[Scott Warren]

The 15th at New South Wales GC into a northerly. No question.

[Brian Finn]

Not too many, but the first one that comes to mind is the 1st hole at Bethpage Red.

[Padraig Dooley]

The first in Cypress, Royal Melbourne and Augusta, meaning I'm about to play the next 17.

[David Ober]

The Road Hole is the only par-4 I can think of in today's world where excellent players are content to play just to the front edge of the green with their second shots and try to get down in two from there.

Not counting myself as "excellent," but that's exactly how I played the hole the one and only time I played it in 2014. And I convered the up and down for a nice par. Loved it!

[Mike_Clayton]

The Road Hole is the only par-4 I can think of in today's world where excellent players are content to play just to the front edge of the green with their second shots and try to get down in two from there.

Into the wind, I know plenty of pros who'd have taken 5 at NSW's 15th and walked to 16 tee.
It's the single scariest tee shot I've seen - because if you miss the narrow fairway, most often it's back to the tee to try again - whether you lose the ball or find it unplayable down the left.

[mike_malone]

Just to keep John Kavanaugh happy #8 at Rolling Green.

[Garland Bayley]

For we wild willys, any par 4. Hole difficulty doesn't matter much at all. If you are wild, two good shots get you par. More commonly at least one wild shot no matter the difficulty leaves 5 the best possible outcome.

[mark chalfant]

Whippoorwill 14th
Quaker Ridge 7th
Oakland Hills  11th
Southern Hills 18th

[Tim Fitz]

15 at the Bev