Scariest Golf Course You've Ever Played

[larrybud]

Matamoros CC. El Chapo's Taint. Nuff said....

 

[cnnmaverick]

> @MaineMariner said:

> I've only golfed there two or three times, but the Bob O'Connor Golf Course in Pittsburgh terrified me. The holes are all jammed together, there's essentially no guidance on the course so it's difficult to tell which flag you're aiming at, the course is packed with inexperienced golfers, and at one point you have to shoot over a road. A road with a bunch of pedestrians and dog walkers on it, since this course is right in the middle of the city. The couple rounds I've played had balls flying everywhere. It was not fun.

 

I'm with you on that one. I used to play there during my MBA days but it was scary. Holes are not separated by ANYTHING, half the time you cannot even tell where one hole ends and the next one begins. The carry across the street up the bug hill is insane and can't believe it's actually allowed to have a course there. People playing there are usually not good (understatement) and there's a wayward ball on every hole it seems. They should issue helmets with the greenfee.

That said - it barely qualifies as a real course. More like a city pet project tbh

[JohnnyCashForever]

> @"jim rockford" said:

> i'm like "there's no ghetto in san francisco"..... after driving there, i stand corrected............. as a note, ghetto doesn't equal skid row. SF definitely has a skid row. i knew that.

 

Isn't the whole city getting pretty bad now? Or is that just media hype? More importantly, why can't I not get the theme to the Rockford Files outta my head now?

 

 

[Bebsport678]

Legacy on Lanier in north Atlanta. 14 holes touch the lake and you’ll lose balls fast if you’re not perfect. Fantastic course but VERY scary.

[jim rockford]

not sure why i can't reply properly to the rockford files/SF question/comments.

 

i haven't been to SF in awhile but to me "homeless camps" are more "skid row" than ghetto. but that's definitional.

 

love the Rockford Files. waiting for it to come back on Me-TV. that and Hawaii 5-0.......... right now, i am enjoying Canon and Barnaby Jones - both Quinn Martin Productions, as they remind us every show.

[Steele47]

Looked up this Bob O'Connor golf course and found this overhead image. https://ui.glimg.net/img/course_assets/97/9796_7050_flyover_thumb.jpg

Does look pretty scary! lol

[JohnnyCashForever]

> @"jim rockford" said:

> not sure why i can't reply properly to the rockford files/SF question/comments.

>

> i haven't been to SF in awhile but to me "homeless camps" are more "skid row" than ghetto. but that's definitional.

>

> love the Rockford Files. waiting for it to come back on Me-TV. that and Hawaii 5-0.......... right now, i am enjoying Canon and Barnaby Jones - both Quinn Martin Productions, as they remind us every show.

 

 

Cannon, Barnaby Jones, and the Jack Lord H5-0 (That was a great opening theme too. How did he get his hair to stay like that?). Good stuff. In that genre, I think Mannix, Quincy (If we could save just one life!!!!), and Kojak (Who loves ya baby?) need a shout-out too.

 

Re Quinn Martin productions, I'm partial to the The Fugitive. What a great show.

[JohnnyCashForever]

> @Steele47 said:

> Looked up this Bob O'Connor golf course and found this overhead image. https://ui.glimg.net/img/course_assets/97/9796_7050_flyover_thumb.jpg

> Does look pretty scary! lol

 

 

 

 

Your post piqued my curiosity. I had to see what that convergence around holes 10, 14, and 17 actually looked like. Per Google Maps, the greens for holes 9, 13, and 16 are literally on top of one another. I think the 14th tee is located in the space between the greens. This is one unusual design. So unusual, in fact, I was just thinking that if we put the layout next to a sand dune on the coast of Great Britain and connect the three greens into one massive shared green, we might have a national treasure, worthy of inclusion into the Open rota.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[LyinEye]

Six inch course between me ears. The fescue is too long.

[thecadman99]

Bent creek golf course in Gatlinburg, TN. Thought the skeeters were going to drain me dry or carry me off... That is until we had to walk up a long, dark, multi-flighted, wooded path to a tee box, covered in bear tracks.

[GolfMinimalist]

Near Medinah, there's a course called Eaglewood that ought to send everyone out with a helmet. Holes are REALLY close together and people are frequently playing off other fairways.

[ksher84]

I drove up on a bunch of skunks once. I didn't notice they were behind me against this building until after I got out of the cart.

 

[jjr]

I've played Gleneages in SF dozens of times over the years never had a problem, I have played it while the police scoured the place on motorcycles too!

Awesome tough track, ask Lee Trevino.

Only time I've ever been scared was on a private course, Palo Alto Hills, the course is a funky and ultra expensive to join, routing is weird to say the least, I had to two balls scream by my head on different holes, unfortunately I kept thinking I was going to get hit and lost my individual team match, Lol

[Sean2]

My home course. It is short, but littered with hazards. There is really no margin for error.

[golftejas]

When I read your post, I thought you might be talking about the Sugarloaf Mountain course in Maine. The 11th hole has a highly elevated tee, and a huge drop down to the hole ... use extra caution with the cart, for sure! One of the most beautiful and yet scariest holes I've ever played ... huge downhill par 3, bounded by a rocky creek on the left, a large sand trap right and another long of the green, and trees outside of those hazards. Somehow I got it on the front left of the green, just a few feet from rolling into the creek. Had to pause on a couple other holes as moose crossed the fairway. Tree-lined holes everywhere and confounding greens because of the mountain effects ... missed quite a few putts badly, and I wasn't even drinking ;-) . And when I first drove into the resort, the hotel came into view and you would swear it wasn't built level ... just an optical illusion because of the mountains, but grabs your attention. It's definitely worth a play if you're up that way. Sugarloaf Golf Club

[cardia10]

He won't mess with you. He usually sleeps in 18 greenside bunker. He just likes to watch!

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[tannyhoban]

So aside from courses with close fairways and high handicappers spraying it around I really don't have a scary course. But hitting off the 3rd tier at Top Golf freaked me way out. I get anxious the higher up I am and those little nets they have did not allay my fear one bit. Had the whole family there. Wife, son, daughter, son had no issues. I hit from the back of mat and kept my weight back. My youngest son was in a halo brace and hitting balls without a care. Me, well let's just say I'm not throwing my weight forward towards a 3 story drop two feet away.

Otherwise we had a blast there.

[fvhowler]

From a design stand point: Tobacco Road, Sanford NC...if you play it, take someone who knows the course with you.

[chrismikayla]

For me it was years ago at Browns Mill in Atlanta. It's right in the middle of a rough neighborhood and people use to walk on the course and Rob people at gunpoint. They've since put a tall fence around the section where people use to come over illegally. There is still a sign in the parking lot saying park there at your own risk.

[davep043]

I can't say that I've played any "scary" courses, although the occasional "Rattlesnake Warning" signs I see around Palm Springs do make me a little nervous. But the talk about having golf balls whizzing past brought to mind the original layout of Prestwick:

I think I see only two holes which don't cross some other hole.

[Irishman1979]

There is a course in Nashville that we used to go down to every winter.

The neighborhood surrounding the course got so bad that guys were being robbed by people hiding in the woods. When you would walk up to the green to get ready to putt a guy would run out of the woods and hold you at gunpoint.

[sdandrea]

SWMBO and I played a course on St.Maarten once and this was a common sight. I suppose they're harmless, but I didn't get close enough to find out. Just wait until they cross the fairway and move on.

[jrr811]

Charles Sifford in Charlotte, NC

Muni 9 hole course, lowest rates in the area. You get all sorts of folks playing of various skill levels (mostly average joes that could slice a putter), and all the holes are right on top of each other. I've had to dodge plenty of incoming balls from 2 fairways over.

Also, if you accidentally shank one coming up 4, you've suddenly sent a projectile on to I-77 southbound. You can do the same if you overshoot the green on 7.

[hooters714]

River Course at Blackwolf Run

[Rizzoaus1]

Jeez, reading some of these posts here makes me glad I only have to dodge the odd angry male Kangaroo.

[rxk9fan]

Karsten Creek, home course to Oklahoma State and nothing has came close in my golf days. The tips are over 7400 yards and the slope over 150. Spyglass is a tough test but really seemed like a reasonable test. Karsten Creek just punished my lack of game!

[spbrooks]

wet cart paths at Hollowbrook GC

[ThunderBuzzworth]

There are a couple muni’s in Detroit that I have witnessed a person on an adjacent fairway set his bag down near the next tee close to the boundary fence and a guy vaulted the fence like an Olympian and stole his whole golf bag in the matter of seconds and I feel like he would have taken it by force and/or at gunpoint if challenged. I have no idea how much he lost in that bag but he was lucky enough to keep his wallet in his pocket.

another course is in the middle of a bad neighborhood and right next to an interstate and I have seen more than a few car accidents that ended up on the golf course from the freeway when I went to school near there. Couldn’t imagine trying to tee off and all of a sudden a car ends up on your tee box