Epic/great/cool etc but really evil wee par-3’s on 9-hole courses

[Thomas Dai]

Epic/great/cool etc but really evil wee par-3’s on 9-hole courses.
Wee being 125 yrs or less …. must be located on a 9-hole course.
Nominations stating yardage please -


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Atb

[Sean_A]

Only very short 3s, forget 9 holes 😎

6 Perranporth
8 B&B Channel
3 Castlerock Bann
15 Seahouses

Ciao

[John Foley]

#9 @ Marion Golf Club Marion MA - George Thomas design. 115 yards over a rock wall.

[James Reader]

5th at Covesea - 90 yards.  The subject could have been created for that hole!  Uphill, blind, to a raised crescent-shaped sliver of a green. Wonderful.


The 9th could also be in the conversation - 104 yards with a tiny saddle green. And the 7th - 135 yards blind over a sea stack to a three tier green with a tiny top tier that’s difficult enough to hit from the front of the green never mind the tee. 

[Thomas Dai]

Only very short 3s, forget 9 holes 😎
6 Perranporth
8 B&B Channel
3 Castlerock Bann
15 Seahouses
Ciao

No threadjacking please
atb

[Ally Mcintosh]

8th at Mulranny. One of the most evil greens I’ve ever encountered.


EDIT - I was focusing on 9 holes and evil, missed the wee… think this one is around 150 yards.

[Tony_Muldoon]

Thomas this sis a tough ask. I wonder if designers of Par 3 courses aviod really short holes as they tend to be short and 'sporty' overall squeezed  into tight acreage.


Yes to the 5th and 9th at Coesea, but if you want to make the challenge even tougher and only accept one hole from each course!!!!!


The 5th at Killin is just over 100yards with a 4' wall just in front and two bunkers to the rear. Second time round they move the tees 90 degrees to the left and its abit like playing the pit at NB.


The famous 5th - Par 3  Dogleg  -at Anstruther is to long but the 6th, 128 yards, qualifies with a small green benched into the hill.


The 6th at Cruit Island, the first at Alnmouth Village the seventh at Princes Himalayas , 8th at Mulranny - just to long!


Breaking News
Seahouses have lodged an appeal!  They do have a separate card and green for just the back 9, so it's the 6th and its a cracker!

[Mike Worth]

Megunticook, Rockport ME #4 — 115 yards blind over a rock/boulder.

[Tim Martin]

3rd hole at Hay Harbor. 92 yard drop shot with green surrounded by bunkers.

[James Boon]

Sean has already mentioned the 8th at Burnham's Channel course which is 117 yards to a tiny sloping green.


The 1st at Traigh is tricky. Its only 136 yds (if that counts as wee?) but for your first shot of the day and uphill all the way, its not easy! There is a bale out right if I recall correctly but anything going for the green and coming up short or left is dead!



The other that springs to mind is the 7th at Gairloch which is only 87 yards but you can hardly see any of the green due to the broken ground between tee and green. You can see the top of the flag but not the green surface and much as I generally enjoy blind shots it seems to make it harder being more of a feel than a full shot.


Cheers,


James

[Marty Bonnar]

As Tony said.
Killin 5th the first time round:



The second time round:



It’s far from!:



 
F.

[Kalen Braley]

Thomas,

The work has already been done for you!

https://www.todaysgolfer.co.uk/features/course-features/2019/november/little-bad-nine-we-played-the-worlds-trickiest-par-3-course/

[Peter Pallotta]

Like Sean I can't limit it to 9 hole courses, but Ian Andrew built a terrific short 3 when working with Doug Carrick on Copper Creek, a good CCFAD that has what I describe as a golden age-lite feel, except for Ian's 110-115 yard Par 3 6th hole (I think) -- a shot up to a perched green that always gave us fits and that was all golden age.

[Sean_A]

Thomas this sis a tough ask. I wonder if designers of Par 3 courses aviod really short holes as they tend to be short and 'sporty' overall squeezed  into tight acreage.


Yes to the 5th and 9th at Coesea, but if you want to make the challenge even tougher and only accept one hole from each course!!!!!


The 5th at Killin is just over 100yards with a 4' wall just in front and two bunkers to the rear. Second time round they move the tees 90 degrees to the left and its abit like playing the pit at NB.


The famous 5th - Par 3  Dogleg  -at Anstruther is to long but the 6th, 128 yards, qualifies with a small green benched into the hill.


The 6th at Cruit Island, the first at Alnmouth Village the seventh at Princes Himalayas , 8th at Mulranny - just to long!


Breaking News
Seahouses have lodged an appeal!  They do have a separate card and green for just the back 9, so it's the 6th and its a cracker!

The 1st at Alnmouth Village is about 180, no?

Yep, Seahouses uses a 9 hole comp card.

Ciao

[Brett Meyer]

Lee Trevino didn't find it too evil in the par 3 shootout some 20 years back, but the ~100 ft. downhill, ~100 yard 8th at Threetops is pretty nasty if you're more than a few feet offline.

[Jon Cavalier]

How about the 4th on Vallière at Morfontaine?











Certainly qualifies as epic/great/cool, I’d think.

[Tony_Muldoon]

Great photo's Jon. Excellent




The 8th and 9th at Strathtay both qualify.  The former is blind uphill and you can't afford a miss.


But I'd rather tell you about the 9th. Downhill with the green sliding away from you.   I fed my ball down and came up 3' short. Mr Carlton learnt from this and lipped out! As we walked down the early evening crowd of members gathered together on the clubhouse veranda said they'd watched with interest and were reaching for the keys to reopen the bar. Had he hit 1/4" to the left he'd have had to buy a total of 4 beers! They said any other night and likely no one would have been there.





2nd at Abernethy is 118 yards.  Across a pretty wild pond the green runs hard R_L.

[Thomas Dai]

Thomas,
The work has already been done for you!
https://www.todaysgolfer.co.uk/features/course-features/2019/november/little-bad-nine-we-played-the-worlds-trickiest-par-3-course/

Spoilsport Kalen!!!!
Although I hadn’t read this article I was aware of the Little Bad Nine and my intention was to gather a bunch of candidate holes nominated by others and try to come up with a similar but more template like right rascally 9-hole par-3 course with to make the exercise a bit more difficult all the candidates selected from existing 9-holes.
A bunch of cool holes nominated so far.
Someone care to link candidates together into a 9-hole course?
Atb


PS - some from me that haven’t been mentioned so far - 7th 123 yds at St Olaf Cruden Bay. 3rd 110 yds at Knighton.

[JohnVDB]

I can’t find scorecards online but two come to mind.


Durness #9 plays 105 I believe. It is 151 as the 18th


Portmahomack(Tarbat) #7 is pretty short with a mound that blocks half the green from view.

[Niall C]

I'm very surprised no one has put forward the 6th (?) at the Sacred Nine. I suspect it doesn't quite come into the "wee" camp unless you really push the tee up to the front of the tee-box but it certainly is a wicked green. The other that immediately sprang to mind was the 9th on the St Olaf course, particularly when the pin is placed up the back on the higher tier. A wonderful golf hole.


Apart from those two, the two holes at Covesea already mentioned are quite exceptional due to how small and unreceptive they are.


Niall

[Niall C]

As Tony said.
Killin 5th the first time round:


The second time round:

Is that a golf cart I see in the picture ? Surely not !!? Looks like FBD has become the leading contender for the Melvyn Morrow Raspberry Award for 2021.


Niall

[Niall C]

But I'd rather tell you about the 9th. Downhill with the green sliding away from you.   I fed my ball down and came up 3' short. Mr Carlton learnt from this and lipped out! As we walked down the early evening crowd of members gathered together on the clubhouse veranda said they'd watched with interest and were reaching for the keys to reopen the bar. Had he hit 1/4" to the left he'd have had to buy a total of 4 beers! They said any other night and likely no one would have been there.

Tony


There is great skill in being able to hit your approach well enough that your next shot is a gimmie but not so well that you have to buy a round of drinks. It's taken many years of practice, let me tell you.


Niall

[Garland Bayley]

I can’t find scorecards online but two come to mind.


Durness #9 plays 105 I believe. It is 151 as the 18th


Portmahomack(Tarbat) #7 is pretty short with a mound that blocks half the green from view.

I remember Tarbat 7 being 107, and my recollection is the green slopes away making it difficult to hold, or get close.
Mulrany 8 green is wicked!
IMO Bann is all evil. It certainly was narrow when I was there.

[Garland Bayley]

I can’t find scorecards online but two come to mind.


Durness #9 plays 105 I believe. It is 151 as the 18th


Portmahomack(Tarbat) #7 is pretty short with a mound that blocks half the green from view.

I remember Tarbat 7 being 107 (found a scorecard correct is 124)
 and my recollection is the green slopes away making it difficult to hold, or get close.
Mulrany 8 green is wicked!
IMO Bann is all evil. It certainly was narrow when I was there.

[James Boon]

Niall,


No one has mentioned the 6th at The Sacred 9 as its actually the 5th you are thinking of    but good call!


I really must get around to playing Killin!


John,


Another good call re both Durness and Tarbat. I've only played both once and think I played 9 at Durness off its back tee, so had forgotten there was a shorter version. I also couldnt find a scorecard in my collection or online to remind me of the yardage at Tarbat. I used to have all these facts in mind but it appears age (relatively speaking)  is taking such things from me!


Cheers,


James