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Steve, You obviously haven’t played Wayne Golf Course in Bothell. Tyee Valley is Augusta National compared to that piece of crap. 6 holes on the back nine are 3 pars including the whopping 97 yard 18th. The entire course is a 4300 par 65. What a dump. Paul
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I am going to add another to my list of worst courses. Last summer I am in Roscoe S.D., population 320, probably no more than 20 miles from Mina where Payne Stewarts plane went down, for my Grandmothers 90th birthday and we decide to borrow my uncles neighbors clubs to play the Roscoe Muni. This is a 9 hole course where they literally take a farm tractor and mow it real low about once a week. The "greens" are sand that has been covered in diesel fuel and then raked in a circular pattern. Cost to play $3, $5 for all day or $75 for the year, honor system, there is a box where you deposit the greens fee. So I am standing on the 9th tee, maybe 120 yards over a large ditch, and my brother in law starts talking about how most people get maybe 1 hole in one in a lifetime and wouldn’t that be horrible if this is where I got mine. I dropped down a club and layed up just to be safe. Steve Now that we have our worst holes listed… what is the worst course you have ever played? Mine is Tyee Valley in Seattle. The locals call it Thunder Valley or SeaTac C.C. It is just south of SeaTac International airport. This is the main airport for Seattle and when I say just south, if you are standing on the 14th tee and wanted to hit a shot to the 16th tee, your ball would go over a runway. Landing light towers for the airport run right down the middle of the course, the entire length of the course. You have jet airplanes going overhead literally every two minutes, either landing or taking off depending on the wind direction. There is a constant smell of jet fuel. All that being said, if you took away the airport, imagine it no longer existed, this would still be the worst course I have ever played. There is no distinction between fairway and rough. The course is in Seattle and there is no drainage system. You would think you could score low there as holes are short and there are very few hazards, except for the fairways and greens. Once played there as part of a bachelor party with some low handicappers and they said the course is so bad, its hard. Once made a Sunday 8:30 tee time in late spring on a Thursday afternoon. Got to the course around 8:00, walked into the clubhouse, told him we had an 8:30 time and his response was "Your up". So we putt for ten minutes, walk to the first tee and a single walks up and says "They put me with you". I once said the following phrase to my playing partner on the course… "Someone needs to weed these greens". FYI… once had a 15 on the par 5 14th. Steve
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Now that we have our worst holes listed… what is the worst course you have ever played? Mine is Tyee Valley in Seattle. The locals call it Thunder Valley or SeaTac C.C. It is just south of SeaTac International airport. This is the main airport for Seattle and when I say just south, if you are standing on the 14th tee and wanted to hit a shot to the 16th tee, your ball would go over a runway. Landing light towers for the airport run right down the middle of the course, the entire length of the course. You have jet airplanes going overhead literally every two minutes, either landing or taking off depending on the wind direction. There is a constant smell of jet fuel. All that being said, if you took away the airport, imagine it no longer existed, this would still be the worst course I have ever played. There is no distinction between fairway and rough. The course is in Seattle and there is no drainage system. You would think you could score low there as holes are short and there are very few hazards, except for the fairways and greens. Once played there as part of a bachelor party with some low handicappers and they said the course is so bad, its hard. Once made a Sunday 8:30 tee time in late spring on a Thursday afternoon. Got to the course around 8:00, walked into the clubhouse, told him we had an 8:30 time and his response was "Your up". So we putt for ten minutes, walk to the first tee and a single walks up and says "They put me with you". I once said the following phrase to my playing partner on the course… "Someone needs to weed these greens". FYI… once had a 15 on the par 5 14th. Steve
Unnamed course in lower Al. The fariways are so bad, you don’t repair divots; They thank you for weeding the course.
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Ah, Wayne Public Golf Course. What fond memories. I played that a couple of years ago on a trip out that way. Where you need to walk under a roadway bridge and then across the bridge to get to the back nine. Where all eight tees on that side of the street are rubber and the tee areas are mats. I’m glad I didn’t have my clubs with me for that one. Where else can you play a 170 yard par 4? What I really ‘liked’ about the back were the par three holes, especially the ones that played right after that long par 4. Walk up a steep ridge to hit down to the green. After that, you get to walk up that steep ridge again and hit down to a different green. After that, you get to walk up that steep ridge yet again and hit down to a different green. Yep, three in a row and everyone of them the same. Only the distance changed about 10-20 yards. All I could think of as I was playing it was that they should copyright the term Goofy Golf. Thanks for un-burying those memories. Bill
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Steve, You obviously haven’t played Wayne Golf Course in Bothell. Tyee Valley is Augusta National compared to that piece of crap. 6 holes on the back nine are 3 pars including the whopping 97 yard 18th. The entire course is a 4300 par 65. What a dump. Paul I am going to add another to my list of worst courses. Last summer I am in Roscoe S.D., population 320, probably no more than 20 miles from Mina where Payne Stewarts plane went down, for my Grandmothers 90th birthday and we decide to borrow my uncles neighbors clubs to play the Roscoe Muni. This is a 9 hole course where they literally take a farm tractor and mow it real low about once a week. The "greens" are sand that has been covered in diesel fuel and then raked in a circular pattern. Cost to play $3, $5 for all day or $75 for the year, honor system, there is a box where you deposit the greens fee. So I am standing on the 9th tee, maybe 120 yards over a large ditch, and my brother in law starts talking about how most people get maybe 1 hole in one in a lifetime and wouldn’t that be horrible if this is where I got mine. I dropped down a club and layed up just to be safe. Steve Now that we have our worst holes listed… what is the worst course you have ever played? Mine is Tyee Valley in Seattle. The locals call it Thunder Valley or SeaTac C.C. It is just south of SeaTac International airport. This is the main airport for Seattle and when I say just south, if you are standing on the 14th tee and wanted to hit a shot to the 16th tee, your ball would go over a runway. Landing light towers for the airport run right down the middle of the course, the entire length of the course. You have jet airplanes going overhead literally every two minutes, either landing or taking off depending on the wind direction. There is a constant smell of jet fuel. All that being said, if you took away the airport, imagine it no longer existed, this would still be the worst course I have ever played. There is no distinction between fairway and rough. The course is in Seattle and there is no drainage system. You would think you could score low there as holes are short and there are very few hazards, except for the fairways and greens. Once played there as part of a bachelor party with some low handicappers and they said the course is so bad, its hard. Once made a Sunday 8:30 tee time in late spring on a Thursday afternoon. Got to the course around 8:00, walked into the clubhouse, told him we had an 8:30 time and his response was "Your up". So we putt for ten minutes, walk to the first tee and a single walks up and says "They put me with you". I once said the following phrase to my playing partner on the course… "Someone needs to weed these greens". FYI… once had a 15 on the par 5 14th. Steve
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I am going to add another to my list of worst courses. Last summer I am in Roscoe S.D., population 320, probably no more than 20 miles from Mina where Payne Stewarts plane went down, for my Grandmothers 90th birthday and we decide to borrow my uncles neighbors clubs to play the Roscoe Muni. This is a 9 hole course where they literally take a farm tractor and mow it real low about once a week. The "greens" are sand that has been covered in diesel fuel and then raked in a circular pattern. Cost to play $3, $5 for all day or $75 for the year, honor system, there is a box where you deposit the greens fee. So I am standing on the 9th tee, maybe 120 yards over a large ditch, and my brother in law starts talking about how most people get maybe 1 hole in one in a lifetime and wouldn’t that be horrible if this is where I got mine. I dropped down a club and layed up just to be safe. Steve
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Now that we have our worst holes listed… what is the worst course you have ever played? Mine is Tyee Valley in Seattle. The locals call it Thunder Valley or SeaTac C.C. It is just south of SeaTac International airport. This is the main airport for Seattle and when I say just south, if you are standing on the 14th tee and wanted to hit a shot to the 16th tee, your ball would go over a runway. Landing light towers for the airport run right down the middle of the course, the entire length of the course. You have jet airplanes going overhead literally every two minutes, either landing or taking off depending on the wind direction. There is a constant smell of jet fuel. All that being said, if you took away the airport, imagine it no longer existed, this would still be the worst course I have ever played. There is no distinction between fairway and rough. The course is in Seattle and there is no drainage system. You would think you could score low there as holes are short and there are very few hazards, except for the fairways and greens. Once played there as part of a bachelor party with some low handicappers and they said the course is so bad, its hard. Once made a Sunday 8:30 tee time in late spring on a Thursday afternoon. Got to the course around 8:00, walked into the clubhouse, told him we had an 8:30 time and his response was "Your up". So we putt for ten minutes, walk to the first tee and a single walks up and says "They put me with you". I once said the following phrase to my playing partner on the course… "Someone needs to weed these greens". FYI… once had a 15 on the par 5 14th. Steve
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Now that we have our worst holes listed… what is the worst course you have ever played?
A municipal course near the museum in New Orleans was the worst I’ve played. The greens were in worse shape than many schoolyards I’ve seen, the fairways were garbage; David Laville’s company saved the day, and watching him hit the ball was a pleasure, regardless of the pasture in which we were playing. He told me that the groundskeepers who mowed the golf course were the same guys who mowed the public park in which the course is located, and that they didn’t know diddly about how to cut golf course grass. I believe that. The only plus to that course was that there were no alligators coming up from the bayous. Mercifully, I’ve forgotten the name of the course. Peter
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Now that we have our worst holes listed… what is the worst course you have ever played?
Sunset Hill in Brookfield, CT… Nine holes, Five greens, one "fairway" and driving range mats on most of the tees. Cheers- Jeff Setaro http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/ PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0×5D41429D RSA: 0×599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34
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Now that we have our worst holes listed… what is the worst course you have ever played?
My home course–Gulf Winds GC on Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. Despite closing it down for seven months and spending $$$ to restore it. it still sucks. I had a shot yesterday from the middle of the fairway, right next to the 100 yard marker, and there was hardened, cracked earth beneath me. The greens which looked beautiful when the contractors left have turned to shit. It’s quite depressing. Dave Clary/Corpus Christi,TX Home: http://home.stx.rr.com/dclary Never Forget: http://www.politicsandprotest.org RSG Roll Call http://www.rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=claryd
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Now that we have our worst holes listed… what is the worst course you have ever played? My home course–Gulf Winds GC on Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. Despite closing it down for seven months and spending $$$ to restore it. it still sucks. I had a shot yesterday from the middle of the fairway, right next to the 100 yard marker, and there was hardened, cracked earth beneath me. The greens which looked beautiful when the contractors left have turned to shit. It’s quite depressing.
EEEWWWWWW!! Soft, squishy, smelly brown greens 
So why has have the greens gone to ahhh. crap? Lack of maintenance or poor design and building? Both?!?! Just curious. Rod
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EEEWWWWWW!! Soft, squishy, smelly brown greens
Yep, and it’s a bitch trying to get people to fix their ball marks! So why has have the greens gone to ahhh. crap? Lack of maintenance or poor design and building? Both?!?!
I really don’t know. Some of the greens are in pretty good shape–just a little bumpy. But others have small to large brown areas where the bermuda looks more dead than dormant. Maybe things will get better as the current growing season gets going. I’m more concerned about the fairways. The big deal about this renovation was that we were getting a "state of the art" irrigation system. If that’s true, then why the hell do I find myself hitting off of tight, hard lies all the time? It’s tough going for a high ‘capper like me. I have a gift certificate for a free round out at Padre Isles CC which has real nice fairways. I want to get a little of my swing back before I use it or I might lose ten balls on that course…..and then have to buy more for the back nine! :-) Dave Clary/Corpus Christi,TX Home: http://home.stx.rr.com/dclary Never Forget: http://www.politicsandprotest.org RSG Roll Call http://www.rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=claryd
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Old Guilford Maine 9 hole course. They took a cow pasture that wondered up the side of a small mountain and cut the grass short. No landscaping. One consistant slope, no hazzards, no water, no trees, no distinquishable fairways. Hit it were you hit it and claim you are in the fairway. Who is to say otherwise? Driving ranges have more personality.
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I’ve never played a bad golf course. Compared to being at work there is no such thing.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – brandon woods, worst piece of shit i ever payed to play.
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I’ve never played a bad golf course. Compared to being at work there is no such thing.
True… Even a bad day of golf is better than a good day of work. Cheers- Jeff Setaro http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/ PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0×5D41429D RSA: 0×599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34
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Now that we have our worst holes listed… what is the worst course you have ever played?
Well, I’ve played a lot of goat tracks, but I can’t complain too much because I played them mostly because they were cheap and I knew what I was getting into. I had fun playing, and that’s all that mattered. On the other hand, when I pay big bucks and find out the greens are recently areated, and there are temporary greens and repairs going on, and no notice of this in the clubhouse, that’s when I get a little upset. But, that said, here is a run down of some of the worst courses I’ve played: #1 Sherril Park, course #2, Richardson Texas. This is a course that I love and hate. The course is actually pretty nice, but when I lived there, it had bent grass greens that would die in the middle of summer. The greens would literally look like a battle ground with bomb craters all over them. When I left Dallas, they had just refurbished course #1, including new greens with a hybrid grass that can take the heat. They were talking about doing the same to course #2, so the problem may be fixed now. #2 The par 3 course at The Practice Tee, also Richardson Texas. Well, it’s just a par 3 course, so what do you expect, but they never water the "fairways", so hardpan lies are all you get if you miss the greens. In the summer, the black clay soil dries up and forms deep wide cracks that you can literally lose balls down in. I have personal experience with this. The nice part of this course, though, is that it has lights, and you can play it at night! Much better than trying to play when it is 110 in the afternoon. #3 Black Duck Muni, Black Duck Mn. The first hole is a blind uphill short par 4. If you haven’t played this course before, you have no idea where that green is, and when you get up there, the people on the tee box can’t see you, so watch out for incoming. I played it after a very intense rainstorm, and one of the fairways felt like it was floating. The whole ground shook like jelly when you walked on it. I had fun there, though, so I can’t complain too much. Well, there are other courses I could mention, but you get the idea.
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It could become a great course if they’d move some tee boxes around. some things can’t be fixed but some could on #7 move he tee boxes up and to the left 100 yards. make it a par 5 with a drive over the water. That would also solve the (dangerous) problem on #5 and allow the fairway to be widened slightly (it is a downhill hole, the ball will run into the tall grass, lets be fair) #11. Get rid of the run off area into the pond, raise it to be a level fairway give a person a chance to get within 210 of that green, right now there is a 99% percent chance that you will run into the pond off a long drive #14, probably a redesign on that one, Right side should be raised up to be level, fill in the small pond make it fairway and some bunkers. have no clue what to do with the cartpath it’s just in the way
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – One of the worst regular courses I’ve played is ‘Redtail’ it was newly redesigned a couple of years ago. The course is dry in the summer which causes most problems Hole #1. Cart path right across the fairway about 240 yards out Hole #5. A straight drive of 220 will knock out a person on the tee box of #7 Hole #7. Long Par 5 646 from the back. have to slice (yes slice) a drive to 215 and hope you don’t role into the water (most people, the local pro’s, hit into the other fairway for safety) Hole #11 Long Par 4 484 from the back. Water all along the left. Don’t even think of letting one get near the water, it will just roll down the 10 foot bank. Next shot will be about 250 to the green. Hole #14 Long Par 4 469 from the back. Water all along the right (STEEP bank). Usually have to try and lay-up but wait, the lay-up area has a cart path and pond/lake to the left and right Green is real small Most of the problems could be resolved if they’d build up the banks (flatten it out near the ponds) I’ve never played it in the summer, so I have yet to experience the problems you mentioned, but….. The course it replaced (Progress Downs) was the worst course I’d ever played. Moooooo. -Greg
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A number of years ago, a friend and I were hunting sage hens in Wyoming. The area we were to hunt was several miles west of Bear Oil, Wyoming. At the time Bear Oil was a small oil camp with maybe 50 or 60 inhabitants — mostly living in trailers. About a mile out of Bear Oil I noticed a red flag on a pole out in the sage brush. The flag was only couple of feet higher than the sage brush which was near shoulder high. I took little notice until I spotted another red flag. I commented to my friend who ventured that it was some sort of seismographic activity. On the return trip from the hunting area, my curosity not satisfied,I stopped the truck and walked out into the sage brush. It was a golf course!! Someone with a passion for golf had taken a bull dozer and created a fairway by bladeing down a 15 to 18 yard strip of 300 + or – yards culminating with a small circular green – or should I say brown – about 10 feet in diameter. The flag in the middle. There were seven near identical "holes" built in a loose circular fashion. When the golf bug hits it is a serious malady. We did not play the course which I very much regret not doing. I presume it no longer exists and has returned to sage brush. I would have liked to meet the guy who so loved the game that he would create a golf "course" out of the harshest conditions. Bet he got a six=pack on Saturdays and had a hell of a time. Saddletraamp – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Now that we have our worst holes listed… what is the worst course you have ever played? Mine is Tyee Valley in Seattle. The locals call it Thunder Valley or SeaTac C.C. It is just south of SeaTac International airport. This is the main airport for Seattle and when I say just south, if you are standing on the 14th tee and wanted to hit a shot to the 16th tee, your ball would go over a runway. Landing light towers for the airport run right down the middle of the course, the entire length of the course. You have jet airplanes going overhead literally every two minutes, either landing or taking off depending on the wind direction. There is a constant smell of jet fuel. All that being said, if you took away the airport, imagine it no longer existed, this would still be the worst course I have ever played. There is no distinction between fairway and rough. The course is in Seattle and there is no drainage system. You would think you could score low there as holes are short and there are very few hazards, except for the fairways and greens. Once played there as part of a bachelor party with some low handicappers and they said the course is so bad, its hard. Once made a Sunday 8:30 tee time in late spring on a Thursday afternoon. Got to the course around 8:00, walked into the clubhouse, told him we had an 8:30 time and his response was "Your up". So we putt for ten minutes, walk to the first tee and a single walks up and says "They put me with you". I once said the following phrase to my playing partner on the course… "Someone needs to weed these greens". FYI… once had a 15 on the par 5 14th. Steve
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It might also be the dumbest web page on the net. Duh!! Princeton what?? Something Canada as the pro is CPGA member.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – http://www.princetongolfclub.com/
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Now that we have our worst holes listed… what is the worst course you have ever played?
Princeton Golf Club. Only played the first 9 but that was enough. Every hole was designed?!?!? if you could call it that, by a different member. The pro proudly told us that tidbit but he didn’t need to it was pretty obvious. The worst hole was the 3rd and the worst part of it was the green. On their site they brag about the "2 elephants" buried under the green but I can’t believe they actually think this is good. I’ll try and describe them. As you approach the green there are 2 tits staring at you, that is what they look like and not small ones at that. I have never seen anything so retarded on a golf course before or since. These "mounds" are so high and steep that there is no way that they can be mowed by any riding mower. Trying to putt over or through these is next to impossible. The fairway iirc had a lot of slope and curves to it… the 4 of us speculated that from some vantage point on the course you could probably see the outline of a figure… Bad hole even if the designer’s name was Muirhead. The next hole has an elevated tee and is right beside the highway. Any ball left is in traffic on a very busy 2 lane highway.(On a different trip through the area with the wife and kids I had a ball land right in front of the car. Kind of scary to think of being beaned on the windshield while do 100 k…) Just another well thought out hole on this course. As for the maintenance well if the had weeded the greens and watered the fairways… Oh hell nothing could have helped this course. http://www.princetongolfclub.com/ Rod
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brandon woods, worst piece of shit i ever payed to play.
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One of the worst regular courses I’ve played is ‘Redtail’ it was newly redesigned a couple of years ago. The course is dry in the summer which causes most problems Hole #1. Cart path right across the fairway about 240 yards out Hole #5. A straight drive of 220 will knock out a person on the tee box of #7 Hole #7. Long Par 5 646 from the back. have to slice (yes slice) a drive to 215 and hope you don’t role into the water (most people, the local pro’s, hit into the other fairway for safety) Hole #11 Long Par 4 484 from the back. Water all along the left. Don’t even think of letting one get near the water, it will just roll down the 10 foot bank. Next shot will be about 250 to the green. Hole #14 Long Par 4 469 from the back. Water all along the right (STEEP bank). Usually have to try and lay-up but wait, the lay-up area has a cart path and pond/lake to the left and right Green is real small Most of the problems could be resolved if they’d build up the banks (flatten it out near the ponds)
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Now that we have our worst holes listed… what is the worst course you have ever played? Mine is Tyee Valley in Seattle. The locals call it Thunder Valley or SeaTac C.C. It is just south of SeaTac International airport. This is the main airport for Seattle and when I say just south, if you are standing on the 14th tee and wanted to hit a shot to the 16th tee, your ball would go over a runway. Landing light towers for the airport run right down the middle of the course, the entire length of the course. You have jet airplanes going overhead literally every two minutes, either landing or taking off depending on the wind direction. There is a constant smell of jet fuel. All that being said, if you took away the airport, imagine it no longer existed, this would still be the worst course I have ever played. There is no distinction between fairway and rough. The course is in Seattle and there is no drainage system. You would think you could score low there as holes are short and there are very few hazards, except for the fairways and greens. Once played there as part of a bachelor party with some low handicappers and they said the course is so bad, its hard. Once made a Sunday 8:30 tee time in late spring on a Thursday afternoon. Got to the course around 8:00, walked into the clubhouse, told him we had an 8:30 time and his response was "Your up". So we putt for ten minutes, walk to the first tee and a single walks up and says "They put me with you". I once said the following phrase to my playing partner on the course… "Someone needs to weed these greens". FYI… once had a 15 on the par 5 14th. Steve Silver Oaks in Zephyrhills, Florida. Powerlines right down the middle of a couple of fairways. The par threes are decent holes, the rest is trash. It looks as though it was designed one hole at a time without regard to the surrounding holes or land. Bad layout. I played one place in Bardstown, KY last year that was all straight flat holes that looked the same, except for 2 on the back side which were downhill, and then downhill, uphill, like you would expect in KY or someplace not flat. They had 4 temporary greens were unputtable. If the greens are bad, then the course is automatically bad. If the greens are good, that goes a long way. tim
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – One of the worst regular courses I’ve played is ‘Redtail’ it was newly redesigned a couple of years ago. The course is dry in the summer which causes most problems Hole #1. Cart path right across the fairway about 240 yards out Hole #5. A straight drive of 220 will knock out a person on the tee box of #7 Hole #7. Long Par 5 646 from the back. have to slice (yes slice) a drive to 215 and hope you don’t role into the water (most people, the local pro’s, hit into the other fairway for safety) Hole #11 Long Par 4 484 from the back. Water all along the left. Don’t even think of letting one get near the water, it will just roll down the 10 foot bank. Next shot will be about 250 to the green. Hole #14 Long Par 4 469 from the back. Water all along the right (STEEP bank). Usually have to try and lay-up but wait, the lay-up area has a cart path and pond/lake to the left and right Green is real small Most of the problems could be resolved if they’d build up the banks (flatten it out near the ponds)
I’ve never played it in the summer, so I have yet to experience the problems you mentioned, but….. The course it replaced (Progress Downs) was the worst course I’d ever played. Moooooo. -Greg
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Now that we have our worst holes listed… what is the worst course you have ever played? Mine is Tyee Valley in Seattle. The locals call it Thunder Valley or SeaTac C.C. It is just south of SeaTac International airport. This is the main airport for Seattle and when I say just south, if you are standing on the 14th tee and wanted to hit a shot to the 16th tee, your ball would go over a runway. Landing light towers for the airport run right down the middle of the course, the entire length of the course. You have jet airplanes going overhead literally every two minutes, either landing or taking off depending on the wind direction. There is a constant smell of jet fuel. All that being said, if you took away the airport, imagine it no longer existed, this would still be the worst course I have ever played. There is no distinction between fairway and rough. The course is in Seattle and there is no drainage system. You would think you could score low there as holes are short and there are very few hazards, except for the fairways and greens. Once played there as part of a bachelor party with some low handicappers and they said the course is so bad, its hard. Once made a Sunday 8:30 tee time in late spring on a Thursday afternoon. Got to the course around 8:00, walked into the clubhouse, told him we had an 8:30 time and his response was "Your up". So we putt for ten minutes, walk to the first tee and a single walks up and says "They put me with you". I once said the following phrase to my playing partner on the course… "Someone needs to weed these greens". FYI… once had a 15 on the par 5 14th. Steve
Silver Oaks in Zephyrhills, Florida. Powerlines right down the middle of a couple of fairways. The par threes are decent holes, the rest is trash. It looks as though it was designed one hole at a time without regard to the surrounding holes or land. Bad layout. I played one place in Bardstown, KY last year that was all straight flat holes that looked the same, except for 2 on the back side which were downhill, and then downhill, uphill, like you would expect in KY or someplace not flat. They had 4 temporary greens were unputtable. If the greens are bad, then the course is automatically bad. If the greens are good, that goes a long way. tim
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Now that we have our worst holes listed… what is the worst course you have ever played? Mine is Tyee Valley in Seattle. The locals call it Thunder Valley or SeaTac C.C. It is just south of SeaTac International airport. This is the main airport for Seattle and when I say just south, if you are standing on the 14th tee and wanted to hit a shot to the 16th tee, your ball would go over a runway. Landing light towers for the airport run right down the middle of the course, the entire length of the course. You have jet airplanes going overhead literally every two minutes, either landing or taking off depending on the wind direction. There is a constant smell of jet fuel. All that being said, if you took away the airport, imagine it no longer existed, this would still be the worst course I have ever played. There is no distinction between fairway and rough. The course is in Seattle and there is no drainage system. You would think you could score low there as holes are short and there are very few hazards, except for the fairways and greens. Once played there as part of a bachelor party with some low handicappers and they said the course is so bad, its hard. Once made a Sunday 8:30 tee time in late spring on a Thursday afternoon. Got to the course around 8:00, walked into the clubhouse, told him we had an 8:30 time and his response was "Your up". So we putt for ten minutes, walk to the first tee and a single walks up and says "They put me with you". I once said the following phrase to my playing partner on the course… "Someone needs to weed these greens". FYI… once had a 15 on the par 5 14th. Steve