Golf Club Atlas
GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture => Topic started by: Patrick_Mucci on January 02, 2014, 06:30:17 PM
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Baltusrol is the only one I can think of.
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Plum Hollow
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Until recently Wentworth.
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Not a great, but one I grew up playing on in Ohio, Plum Brook CC in Sandusky, OH. 100 years old this year.
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Victoria Australia
Both nines when I played there ended with 2 par fives!
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The highly regarded Brookside Country Club in Canton, Ohio has the double 5 finish.
Two doozies. 17 is one if my favorite greens on the course. All that's missing is the windmill.
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The Dunes course in Brooksville FL ended with back to back par 5's .
I know most dont see this as a great course - but for the area - before it had financial trouble - it was a really good course.
One of the best endings in golf in Florida that I have played.
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The Olympic Lake has par-5's on #16 & #17.
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Baltusrol (Lower) and Victoria are the only two top-100 courses that end with two par-5's ... as far as I can remember. The two par-5's are one of the main features of Baltusrol; at Victoria they are two of the weaker holes, really.
The Rawls Course at Texas Tech is a good course that ends with two par-5's. Also, Desert Highlands.
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Is #18 at Cherry Hills still considered a par-five for members?
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Pat,
Ballybunion Old did at one point, but the revised clubhouse location changed that.
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Waverly CC in Portland, Oregon ends with two nice par 5s, a short one and then a long one, on the shore of the Willamette River.
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Rolling Green. Although 18 has been shortened to a par 4 from the championship tees only. It had been a par 5 for 85 years.
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Is #18 at Cherry Hills still considered a par-five for members?
I believe it is. That would make it qualify with 17 & 18 as par 5s.
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Not as a great course, but as an oddity, Penina in Portugal has par fives on 10, 11, 17, and 18.
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Victoria Club in Riverside, CA (Max Behr) ends with 2 par 5's. In fact, 14 and 15 are also par 5's, giving the course 4 par 5's out of the last 5 holes.
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Royal Birkdale ends in back to back 5's as well
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Holston Hills, in the top 100 Golfweek Classic, ends with a shortish, downhill par 5 17th and the challenging uphill par 5 18th.
520 - 541 from the back tees
494 -521 from the member tees
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Royal Birkdale ends in back to back 5's as well
For the most part true, but the 18th becomes a long par 4 for The Open.
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A solid course but I doubt many would classify it as great is Plymouth CC (Flynn) just outside of Philly. Both 17 and 18 are decent holes, IMO, yet each could probably benefit with some bunkering in the fairways.
I happened to play there recently and compiled a new photo album:
http://xchem.villanova.edu/~bausch/images/albums/Plymouth/
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Royal Birkdale ends in back to back 5's as well
For the most part true, but the 18th becomes a long par 4 for The Open.
I'm infamously out of touch when playing courses on vacation. Don't typically carry a scorecard or necessarily a Strokesaver.
The 18th at Birkdale played in a fair breeze and I played the first couple shots during the waning moments of a rain shower that had started back on the 16th tee. After I finished up with my three putts from the fringe for a 7 my feeling was that it was just way too hard a hole for me in the wind and rain. Then I noticed after the round it was a Par 5 so "only" a double-bogey. Which somehow made it seem less brutal, knowing that first putt from the fringe was for par!
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Victoria Club in Riverside, CA (Max Behr) ends with 2 par 5's. In fact, 14 and 15 are also par 5's, giving the course 4 par 5's out of the last 5 holes.
Four par fives and three par threes in the last eight holes, with 11, 13, and 16 being par threes. Weird stretch of holes on the card, but I enjoyed playing there when it was our home course during my senior year at UC Riverside.
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Question was asked whether the 18th at Cherry Hill Club, in southern Ontario, is still a par 5 for members. A resounding yes. From the back tee, it is 554 yards, and reaching the green means little unless you are in the correct position relative to the pin. A very tricky Travis green. Ray Floyd could provide key insight into this particular green, from his experience at the 1972 Canadian Open held there.
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The front nine at Forsgate ends with two par fives, causing me to wonder if the nines were ever reversed ?
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The ladies played 17 & 18 as par-5's in the Women's Open at Birkdale this summer.
DT
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Lahanton in Truckee ends with two par fours, followed by two par threes finishing up with two par fives. I think it is still in the Golfweek Top 100 modern. Tom Weiskopf design.
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Flossmoor is technically a 4-5 finish but 17 is a more difficult 5 than 18.
I see more birdie 4's on 18 than par 4's on 17.
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Hopmeadow CC which is a 1961 Geoffrey Cornish design in Simsbury CT finishes 5, 5 with the caveat that it is not IMO good to great.
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What about Connemara in the west of Ireland?
17 is quite typical of a Hackett design with a steeply elevated green set in to a dune at the end... 18 is one of the best finishers in the country.
Ally