Guys, it’s Pop Tart Man.
5 Likes
Voting completed, by one vote Ironwood Callow #7 takes it. Here’s 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
#7 Ironwood Callow par 5 - 496
Nominations for #8?
I present to you, the worst par 5 in golf. 556 yards of absolute trash normally played into the prevailing west wind courtesy of Mr. Nicklaus (Barbara these guys hate split fairways!?!)
From the tees everyone plays, fairway straight away runs out at about 270, sure that’s enough room for a good amount of people but if you connect on one congrats your prize is a water ball into the Onion River.
Let’s say you hit driver or 3 wood into the fairway denoted by the red X, you still have 235 of pure carry to a slightly uphill green defended front, left, and right by bunkers to a green perpendicular to you. Not the smart play unless you can crush one up the right over the bunkers. Don’t go long either, you’ll then have a severe downhill lie towards a green sloped towards the river.
So your layup choices at this point are bunt a 5-8 iron about 160ish yards up the right fairway, which only exists because the original owner insisted it be there so that golfers could play alongside an old Oak tree that is no longer there but covered half the right fairway about 100 out, or play up the left fairway.
The left fairway, much narrower than it looks due to trees on the left side coming out into play from the woods past the cart path. You gotta hit it about 200 ish to get past the bottleneck where the river and trees pinch at the narrowest point. What’s even dumber, for the left fairway which is supposed to be the “smart” play as it gives you the best angle in, requires you to hit a long, more difficult shot. The same 160ish shot you could play to the right fairway on the left (noted by the yellow X) still leaves you with 120ish in with plenty of hazard still in play.
My personal favorite though is when one player in a cart hits a tee shot left choosing to then use the left fairway, the other hits it right and then chooses to use the right fairway. At this point now someone has to take their bag off the cart and walk it in from there. From a course that at inception was trying to compete with BWR and Whistling Straits, nothing like charging $300 (it’s a lot less now) for something like that to happen.
The green is also shit, the pot bunker short is the worst designed bunker in golf funneling all balls to the back lip (SICK!) and I’ve made more 8+'s on this hole than I care to remember.
Fin
Edit: if you weren’t sure this is The Bull #8
5 Likes
Hey @kcurry11 please enlighten the world on Fox Hills Blue 8
1 Like
At least that hole gives you options. Welcome to the fun world of Fox Hills Blue #8.
Are you Mac Boucher? No? Ok cool. Hit 7 iron, then like 3 wood or some shit into a elevated, tiny ass green.
Enjoy the dentist office, and the only apartments in the entire town of Mishicot to your left.
This hole stinks. It won’t win, but it’s probably the 2nd worst hole I’ve played in my life.
9 Likes
It’s a shame both the Bull and Fox Hills have terrible 8th holes
I mean the play here is to hit driver, then hit a 200 yard shot past the narrow pinch to open the green completely up.
It’s actually a pretty good hole from a “strategic golf” standpoint. Truly a “credit card” hole where the difficulty of it is delayed as you continue to take the easier route.
The green isn’t good, and the pot bunkers could be reshaped a little to fix the sand issues, but before then it’s actually not the worst at all… The left fairway, while it feels narrow, isn’t that narrow.
It’s not an easy hole, but I don’t see a lot wrong with it other than the green…
Either the 2nd or 3rd shot is the hardest you have to hit. But there isn’t a way to make them both easy, which is a good thing.
1 Like
You did a good job of convincing me I want to play this hole
Considering this is my…home course…
Always happy to host people, first High Life is on me. Come on up any time and experience it for yourself
1 Like
I see your par 5 and raise you the par 5 at my club for worst hole. (Granted it’s about a mile south of Wisconsin in Illinois, number 15 at Lacoma Golf.)
Double dog leg Par 5 that requires a lay up off the tee of 160-180 yards, a longer lay-up for your second shot, and a chip to a table to green surrounded by run offs to woods. Thinking of cutting the corner? Good luck, overgrown oak trees right on top of tee boxes leave no room for getting a driver or wood over them. Assuming you hit a perfect layup tee shot the stays to the middle left of the fairway, you are left with 250 to the front, 280 to the back, which would require a majestic shot to get off the trees that block the green in the right side. Your ideal shot is a 200-220 yard towards the left fairway bunking which leaves a 40-60 yard chip shot into the green. If you choose a lesser yardage on the second shot to leave you between 200-140 yard, the fairway dips down 20-30 feet leaving you a blind approach in to the green. Straight trash of a hole.
9 Likes
The funny part is, this hole is actually more narrow than it looks in this picture…
4 Likes
Yuck.
1 Like
Welcome to Twin Lakes’ 500 yard par 5, 8th.
The opening tee shot is sandwiched in between the 7th green and the 12th green, keeping your head on a swivel.
The landing area is 200 to 215 yards, to a fairway that is 25 yards wide. The shot requires a cover over a 30’ deep valley. Anything short will not make it to the top of the late rising hill, anything long will trudle onto the 5th for dead second shots.
If you dialed in the correct yardage, and avoided hitting tree roots, acorns, bare ground, etc, you’re perched up nicely for a 230 yard shot to the green which lies 40 feet downhill. Only have a center line tree, a creek 10 yards in front off the green, 30 yard chute to hit through and three bunkers surrounding the green.
Ideally, hit to the top 200 yards, layup 180, 50 yard pitch to the green.
13 Likes
How does a state have so much good golf and so much horrific golf? Because these 8th holes alone are nightmare fuel
13 Likes
I played this course on the way back from Landmand in June! I quite liked the course, but yeah, that hole is no bueno.
7 Likes
I blame winter.
6 Likes
Holy fuck this is the worst hole Ive seen in a minute.
6 Likes
You brought out the big guns on this one, questioning where I’m going to vote now
2 Likes
Time to vote, and we have some heavy hitters:
- The Bull #8
- Fox Hills Blue #8
- Twin Lakes #8
0
voters
Don’t we just vote for @PTM based on the work he put into explaining the bad hole?
4 Likes