The Hole from Hell

[wirehair]

#13 Keeton Park, Dallas. 481 Yards Slight dogleg right (Canal right), then sharp left (around lake). #2 handicap.

1 - Tee shot, high fade - 250 yards carry, hit cart path & bounced high & long into lateral canal.
2 - Drop
3 - 5 Wood, strong pull left, hit about 230 yds. Problem is 235 to carry over water.
4 - Drop where I went in.
5 - About 140 yds across water (see 3 above), Shanked 7 iron into the water.
6 - Drop same place
7 - See 5 - same club same result.
8 - Drop same place (Feelin' a little like tin-cup)
9 - Same club, hit it right this time - on the green, 8 feet from the pin.
10 - one putt, big ole 10.

That is 4 (count 'em 4) NXT's sleep with the fishes. 3 shots from the same place. Only a 10. Go figure.

[Benguk]

I had a hole like that once with no water

[Bravo]

I have played a lot of golf in my time and that sounds like one of the more difficult holes I have ever heard of. A serpentine, double dogleg...

I think I would be pulling out some of my old shag balls when I tee it up there...

[DaveE]

Originally Posted by wirehair

That is 4 (count 'em 4) NXT's sleep with the fishes. 3 shots from the same place. Only a 10. Go figure.

Tough hole. At least they weren't Pro V1s.

[obagain]

That is a tough hole. I have played it several times and only 1 birdie.

I normally baby it thru that hole, hit just long enough to stay out of trouble, take a par or bogie and move on.

[wirehair]

I birdied it once a couple of weeks ago (dumb luck, not skill). Got to thinking I was GOLFERMAN! That created the problem.

Next time, 8 iron 3 times, wedge up, 2 putts, bogey & a smile!

[goatster]

ive have seen a similar thing happen.5 yards in front of the tee box was a 25 yard wide creek.my fathers brother inlaw tees it up and pops it up and into the drink.tees up tghe next oneband pops up anothre into the identical spot in the drink.then to top it off he completed the feat a third time into the exact same spot in the creek.

as you can imagine the rest of us were dying from laughtef.telling him that he should drop on the other side if he dosent have the distance to carry the driver all of 30 yards.

[Rainmanp]

You are all missing the real issue: Nice one-putt.

[caddyshackgolf]

Thats nothing compared to this one guy that my dad plays with. Its a par-5 hole 7 540 yards woods ligning the right. He put it in the woods like 10 times or something stupid like that and ended up with a 22 on the hole.

[Augster]

Nice Hole.

Had something like that last weekend in a tournament.

Par 4, 320 yards tight dogleg right.

1. 2-iron, Center cut 115 to the stick.
2. PW Skulled well over the green into the deep wooded stuff.
3. Take drop from behind the green (unplayable lie)
4. Chili-dip.
5. Chip on to 10 feet.
6. Putt
7. Putt
8. Putt

I played a Par 7 from 115 yards center cut. Well done.

[Esher]

We all have those holes that seems to take away everything else from the round. I had one of those yesterday. On a 244 yard par 4 (up hill with two landing areas) I usually birdie or par it. But yesterday:

1. Six iron to first landing area.
2. Sand wedge to 10 feet of pin.
3. Putt (ball rolls to within 2 inches of hole, starts rolling backward, and rolls back 4 feet past the point I putted it the first time)
4. See #3
5. See #3
6. See #2
7. Putt 3 feet past hole
8. In the cup

Up to that point I was playing 4 strokes better than I have ever played on this course. It took the wind right out of my sails.

[wirehair]

I've got this puppy figured out. Last 3 times bogey, par, bogey.
1 - Mid or Long iron into fairway (depends on wind)
2 - 5w / 3i on down the track (depends on 1)
3 - short iron or wedge to green
4-6 - Knock it in.

Play short golf on a long hole. This game is easy.

[cabinessence]

My worst hole ever was at the final round of the Future Masters in 2001, #4 I think. Par 5, maybe 520 yards, slight dogleg right, then cuts sharply to the left about 100 yards from the hole. Easy hole if you don't do anything stupid.

1. Driver, skank chili dip popup to the right, one of the worst shots I've ever hit, hits a tree about 50 hards from the hole, goes into a hazard I didn't even know existed.
2. Penalty
3. Re-tee, pull-hook left into the woods.
4. No shot back to the fairway, play up another fairway.
5. Great 6-iron over trees to 30 feet or so.
6. Putt
7. Putt
8. Putt

I ended up finishing eagle-birdie with a 60 or 70-footer on 18 to shoot 72 on the day. I was five over for the tournament...and six over par on the hole for three rounds, double-bogey-triple.

[wirehair]

Had to resurrect this old post because I did it again.

For a pretty smart guy, I can really be stupid sometimes. I was back at this hole yesterday & was following "The Plan" but got under my tee shot with my hybrid & was pretty short, when it finally came down after taking out a couple of satellites I managed almost 100 yds. So for a second, I pulled a fairway & fatted it. Straight, but still short of where I wanted to be. Here's where the STUPID really started coming in. Instead of a layup & bogey, I grabbed 4 iron for 180 tds over water to the green. Yup, short 5 yards, but it gets wierd now. The water was down & the ball hit some big rocks embedded into the bank. It came back towards me & cleared the water back into the fairway, eventually landed where it should have been if I'd layed up.

I'm now laying three about 60 yards out, hit a gap wedge 80 yards & the ball sailed the green, hit a cart path & bounced about 25 more yards into another water hazard. I dropped where it went in and bladed a flopper back across the green into the original lake, dropped again & then up & down for a NINE!

The worst part of this beating - I was sober as a Judge.

93 for the round. If could have avoided this beating & the snowman on the front nine, Id have had a decent round. But then again if my Aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.