I thought you loved WBYC hole 17! You’re so good at it!
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It’s even better than it used to be. Great match play hole. Unfortunately it’s the #4 handicap on a par 3 so too many dudes get shots.
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That hole is a tapeworm inside my brain
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It was quite a performance all weekend on 17 by our guy. It was impressive.
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I’m letting the C-Suite argue this one out
8 is definitely hard, but nowhere near as hard as some of these other holes being discussed…Northland alone has 2 or 3 that are objectively harder (3, 10, 18)
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I had to make sure us Inver Wood Defenders had a seat at the table.
Interesting to define “hardest hole” though. Seems like people are rating as “hole that you could blow up on” and I rate it as “how hard is it to make par”. I think no hole sets that distinction better than 8
From the tips, 14 and 15 at Windsong has to be two of the hardest back to back par 4’s in the state. Good luck hitting either of those greens with long irons in your hands.
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If you play from the tips at Windsong you deserve whatever punishment you receive.
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Have legitimately only played one full round back there. It was wild.
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Last Monday there was 1 birdie on 2 out of 73 players. Played 388 back into 20-25 MPH winds. The 2nd shot is so tough because there is no bail out unless you hit a chip shot over water.
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I think I shot a million the one time we went to the back
I think 12 at Stoneridge can be a bit of bastard too, but if you drive it straight, you can make a comfy par.
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First round of the year I made a 2 on hole 12 from the black tees. Dunked it from 215 lol. No skins or money on the line.
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In theory, the bail out is into the backstop on the back left of the green but I’ve fucked that shot up so many times
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Yeah, I’ve made so many comfy pars on 12 out there.
5 also may be a nominee for the tough par/easy bogey competition.
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5 at Meadowbrook, hardest par 4 in the Midwest
it sure was an experience. although if i recall on 14 from ~520 we both got on the green in 2, which i consider one of my greatest life achievements
I thought Windsong 15 was fair. If I remember the wind is usually at your back off the tee shot.
Holes 3 and 15 at Olympic Hills are very difficult.
Hole 5 at the Wilds is mean, green is semi-blind/perched
Hole 8 at Willingers, with the pencil thin green is tough to score on
Hole 9 at Somerby is personal demon of mine
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Just because it’s on my mind, my own personal toughest par 4 is the 10th at Olympic Hills.
415 from the blue tees
Bunkered landing area
OB along entire left
Can miss right but blocked out almost entire length of hole
Downhill approach but false front
I have never birdied it and can probably count on one hand the number of pars I’ve had in 4 years.
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Coat tailing off @LonnieMollo, what’s the hardest hole at your “home course”? I play most of my golf at Rush Creek and #14 always gets me. It’s derailed so many good rounds and is smack dab in the middle of a tough stretch of holes on the back.
Plays 440 from my usual tees, but stretches to 492 from the back tees. Off the top of my head I can think of only ONE time that I birdied it. The landing spot for your drives typically leaves you on a downhill lie to a slightly elevated green. Even if you bomb one and leave yourself a short iron in, it’s an awkward lie and the ball comes out flat.
The green site sure is pretty, though.
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