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GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture => Topic started by: Kyle Harris on June 21, 2022, 08:11:52 AM
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There are only so many variations of a three foot shot.
What’s the shortest unique shot in golf?
How does one differentiate?
For example, Cypress Point’s 16th. 240 yards over water isn’t all that unique. 240 yards over SALT water is getting there. But then 240 yards over the Pacific Ocean is unique.
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The pitch to the 15th green at Fenway.
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Maybe the 2nd at the Waterfall Club, A par 3 that plays over a waterfall.
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The 2nd at TCC. It only plays that way four days every 20 years or so.
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I'd say it's the "Gimee"...;-)
In What other sport does a competitor concede a "shot"?
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Is there a bunker shot quite like the one from the Road Hole bunker?
At what distance does the pitch into the pit at North Berwick become unique?
I like Ian’s spin on the question! I believe fencing may have something akin to the concession.
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All those quirky lies around the green in tall grass
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Maybe the 2nd at the Waterfall Club, A par 3 that plays over a waterfall.
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Is that in North Georgia? Is it called "The Waterfall Club"?
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Lake Burton . . . pretty cool hole.
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Off the top of my head, that volcano green on the sub 300 yard par 4 at Ross' Franklin Hills CC near Detroit. Uphill wedge (if not a driver off the tee, LOL) to a green that falls away all the way around?
As a shot type, not scenery, that one comes to mind for me. I didn't actually like it, but I remembered it, LOL. Pretty unique shoe value, I think,
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The bank chip shot off the wall at North Berwick.
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Merion West #6 (sorry Mayday!!)
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#10 at Ingleside. I threw a ball for a tap in birdie there once!
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a lot of second shots on Rye's par 3s
5th at Bandon Trails
the putt after you missed a gimme.
if you mention the Road Hole bunker, why not from the DA at Pine Valley?
It was the stymie.
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17 at Milton Freewater Pete. ;D
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The bank chip shot off the wall at North Berwick.
Last summer I played with Tim Gallant at North Berwick, and we both had crazy little run-up shots to a front plateau, left hole location on the 16th. I managed to run it up the bank from forty yards short with about ten feet of right-to-left break; Tim went over in two and then putted over the corner of the back plateau, through the swale, and back up to a couple of feet. I got his on video, but nobody thought to shoot mine. :(
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Merion West #6 (sorry Mayday!!)
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Love Merion West.
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The short 5th par 3 played into the Roman Fort at Painswick in the Cotswolds.
James B
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2nd shot into 11 at Black Rock!
(https://golfcoursegurus.com/photos/idaho/blackrock/large/Black-Rock-11th-awesome.jpg)
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A second shot from the bunker in the middle of the 6th green at Riviera.
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How about a putt from one green section to the other at the 6th at Whistling Straits?
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A second shot from the bunker in the middle of the 6th green at Riviera.
No, having to flop over it from the putting surface is the unique shot.
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I had a pitch shot two days ago at Huntington Crescent Club to a rock hard lightning fast green where I had to hook it to get it to jump left to mitigate the left to right slope,navigate a spine,then run up into the fringe to slow it down, have it reemerge onto the green pin high, and trickle down 3 feet from the hole.
Took about 15 seconds.
That was pretty unique, as were the next two shots... ;) ::) :'(
By the end of the day I had faced multiple unique short shots.
Super firm greens will do that-especially when there's enough grass to allow good contact and allow the imagination and creativity to flow.
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The 2nd at TCC. It only plays that way four days every 20 years or so.
On that I'd suggest the Composite 13th hole, which only exists four days every 20 years or so.
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I had a pitch shot two days ago at Huntington Crescent Club to a rock hard lightning fast green where I had to hook it to get it to jump left to mitigate the left to right slope,navigate a spine,then run up into the fringe to slow it down, have it reemerge onto the green pin high, and trickle down 3 feet from the hole.
Took about 15 seconds.
That was pretty unique, as were the next two shots... ;) ::) :'(
By the end of the day I had faced multiple unique short shots.
Super firm greens will do that-especially when there's enough grass to allow good contact and allow the imagination and creativity to flow.
Crescent is awesome and so is Pete Cash who looks after it.
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I'd say it has to be the flop shot over the wall into The Pit at North Berwick. May only be 8-10 yards.
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I'd say it has to be the flop shot over the wall into The Pit at North Berwick. May only be 8-10 yards.
Nonsense - surely it's the 4th at Silloth when you've missed the green to the left and land in the dip and then chip over the green and land in the dip on the other side ? ;D
Niall
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I'd say it has to be the flop shot over the wall into The Pit at North Berwick. May only be 8-10 yards.
Nonsense - surely it's the 4th at Silloth when you've missed the green to the left and land in the dip and then chip over the green and land in the dip on the other side ? ;D
Niall
Not unique in the slightest...in my experience!
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Surely the pitch to the 8th at Pine Valley is sinfully delicious.
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as were the next two shots... ;) ::) :'(
I'm pretty sure they weren't...
How about this for a unique short shot: https://www.golfchannel.com/video/british-open-1983-hale-irwin-royal-birkdale
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Surely the pitch to the 8th at Pine Valley is sinfully delicious.
Agreed.
But is it unique? How does it differ from a similar look at Fenway?
I also thought about the DA as compared to the road hole bunker but the Road Hole bunker has the added trouble behind the putting green that the DA lacks.
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The shot into Dannebrog's 2nd. A par -3 w a sand green inside a grain silo...
See pic here https://visitnebraska.com/dannebrog/dannebrog-country-club (https://visitnebraska.com/dannebrog/dannebrog-country-club)
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#10 at Ingleside. I threw a ball for a tap in birdie there once!
(http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/bausch/Ingleside/mediafiles/l42.jpg)
drop zone on the green?
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Not a regular shot, but a recovery shot, Fazio had that cave in the fw at Barton Creek, which, if found, would be among the most unusual shots to be played, perhaps involving beating a Texas rattlesnake to death before playing.....
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I'd say it has to be the flop shot over the wall into The Pit at North Berwick. May only be 8-10 yards.
Especially if someone else in the group gets to use putter from a similar position.
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The 9th at Cabot Cliffs has to be in the conversation. I once played CL with a woman who serves on the Colo Exec USGA committee who took one look her 70 yard downhill tee shot, grabbed her putter and putted it onto the green!
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The 2nd at TCC. It only plays that way four days every 20 years or so.
Your comment is not even close to being accurate. The Open Course is played a couple/several times per month. Has been for decades…
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Glad to stand corrected.
Ira
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The 2nd at TCC. It only plays that way four days every 20 years or so.
On that I'd suggest the Composite 13th hole, which only exists four days every 20 years or so.
Again, this is just not true…
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Maybe the 2nd at the Waterfall Club, A par 3 that plays over a waterfall.
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Is that in North Georgia? Is it called "The Waterfall Club"?
Waterfall used to be Bent Grass tee to green; Bill Bergin has completed work on the course in the last year or so that included regrassing because a lot of the course just stayed too soft. The members had a "local rule" among themselves for this hole that if all agreed on where the ball had landed but couldn't find it, it was deemed embedded and the player got a free drop. The hole plays about NINE clubs less than the distance on the card. It really is unique.
You may already know this, but the waterfall was created for the course. There is a retention pond at the top used for the water, and the water is then pumped back up to keep the flow going. As soon as the last group of the day plays the hole, the waterfall is shut off until the next day.
Nick Saban, btw, is one of the new owners of the club; he's had a house there for many years.