Saying that out of spite for the course or hole 6?
Yes
While not an abomination of a hole compared to the others, certainly added to the list. I just hate that hole is so damn difficult
Twin Lakes CC.
Might be worthy of worst hole in the state.
7 and 8 are quite terrible as well.
Oh shit. While 6 is bad, I meant 8. I mean the whole course stinks. 8 is truly the worst.
Time to vote, worst hole #6
- The National #6
- Fox Hills Blue #6
- The Bull #6
- Twin Lakes CC #6
Is this the bell hole???
Good old Goose Shit Island. Played here every year for 15 years on a golf trip. Thankfully we’re now at Forrest Dunes tho the memories are great.
Yes, 6 has the bell on the left side of the fairway where nobody is because everybody blasted it through the dogleg into tree hell
You sold it so well, I’ve never seen so many terrible and unnecessary features on a tee shot outside of several holes at The Bull to be named later
The Bull pops up again, and I suspect not for the last time. Here is where we are:
#1 The Oaks par 4 - 353 yds
#2 Westridge GC par 5 - 476 yds
#3 Kenosha CC par 3 - 130 yds
#4 The Bull par 5 - 493 yds
#5 Whistling Straits par 5 - 543 yds
#6 The Bull par 3 - 173 yds
Suggestions for hole #7?
Bumping this, any nominations?
Ironwood Callow #7 - Sussex, WI (The whole place stinks)
Up hill par 5 that forces you to hit a 200-ish yard shot off the tee. Tree lined fairway that gets narrower towards the green. Can never see the pin on your approach shot so that’s cool and the green is wider than it is deep. Bunker just short of the green that is never taken care of.
Came here to nominate the same hole and then #8
Timber Ridge #7 - a par 5 that lets you hit driver off the tee only if you can work it left to right or land it in a specific zone over the bunker. Then the fun starts. Want to go for the green? Better hit a towering 250 yard shot that somehow falls out of the air or somehow find the 15 yard wide window between the trees. Otherwise you’re forced to layup but you have to have your distances spot on or else you’ll be blocked out on your wedge shot. This course probably has the worst collection of par 5’s ever, this one might actually be the most normal but it’s still terrible.
This is a worse version of the old Lawsonia Woodlands 18. So bad
I missed highlighting #4 so here’s that for your pleasure as well which is a similar template. What you can’t see is that if you go for it in two (which I’ve done for reasons explained later) is that the trees are like 50ft tall so you have to hit it insanely high to have a chance. The layup however, has a massive downslope right at the right turn so if you don’t get it far enough, you have a massive downhill lie for your flip wedge.
Time to vote, worst hole #7?
- Ironwood Callow #7
- Timber Ridge #7
I like Ironwood overall but this hole stinks. I think its also this hole where they have those rocks along the cart path so its basically a permanent cart path only hole most of the way up.