Who here LOVES risky greens and precarious placement of baskets?
I DO!!! See Winter Park...
I DO!!! See Winter Park...
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Precarious Pins
- Thread starter superberry
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Hole 10 at my home course has a basket at the top of a ridge, hole 10's side of the ridge is about 6' tall, and the other side of the ridge is closer to 10-15' tall. Discs love to roll down this ridge and end up farther away than the previous throw.
Note Hole #8: http://www.dgcoursereview.com/view_image.php?p=course_pics/2746/253e800d.jpg
If that link doesn't work - Beaver Meadows #8 - There is about an 80 drop as you work your way out from the camera.
If that link doesn't work - Beaver Meadows #8 - There is about an 80 drop as you work your way out from the camera.
Here's the most precarious basket I've faced so far...
http://www.dgcoursereview.com/view_image.php?p=course_pics/3263/b8333b9b.jpg
Hole 10 at Brackett's Bluff (RIP)
It's a 10-20' drop off on all sides of the boulder... with sloping downhills to boot.
And, laying up on the boulder is not really an option.
DSCJNKY
http://www.dgcoursereview.com/view_image.php?p=course_pics/3263/b8333b9b.jpg
Hole 10 at Brackett's Bluff (RIP)
It's a 10-20' drop off on all sides of the boulder... with sloping downhills to boot.
And, laying up on the boulder is not really an option.
DSCJNKY
Never played it but doesn't the Diamond X pin for May in the innova calander take the cake?
http://www.innovadiscs.com/calendar2010.html
http://www.innovadiscs.com/calendar2010.html
I got 3 words for ya...White Effin Oak:
Ask my wife, you can...and will roll 200'+ away on this one.
Oh and here is the tee:
336' over that hill is the pin, probably 200' past that is the bottom of the hill where your putter will stop rolling.
Ask my wife, you can...and will roll 200'+ away on this one.
Oh and here is the tee:
336' over that hill is the pin, probably 200' past that is the bottom of the hill where your putter will stop rolling.
HolySchnell
Par Member
Oh how I despise this hole.
it is despicable.
And that hole to the left is O.B.
Funny...I didn't see your horns when we played that round...
#6 @ Hawk Hollow wasn't exactly a "go for it" hole.
I love holes like that, a little bit of pucker factor on putts is a lot of fun. Some of my favorite precarious pins are the two boulder holes at Holler in the Hills. Here's the pin on the hole that tees from one boulder with the basket on another:
Does "close to O.B." count?
I'm a big fan of exciting greens---drop-offs, rollaways, and danger of O.B. More than a few visitors to Stoney Hill care for.
Earlewood is famous for its rollaways---fast sloping greens where a disc can roll up to 100' away.
We're working on a new intermediate-level 9-hole course on some church property, in which all 9 baskets will be precarious in one way or another.
I'm a big fan of exciting greens---drop-offs, rollaways, and danger of O.B. More than a few visitors to Stoney Hill care for.
Earlewood is famous for its rollaways---fast sloping greens where a disc can roll up to 100' away.
We're working on a new intermediate-level 9-hole course on some church property, in which all 9 baskets will be precarious in one way or another.
Obviously just "a little too late to matter", but the camera angle in that last picture just BEGS to call a foot fault on - as his contact point does NOT appear to be in-line with the middle-of-the-mini / line-to-the-basket line.
Karl
Ps: As for the thread, I like "perilous pins" as long as there is a "safe side" in which one can "bail out" if they so choose to.
Karl
Ps: As for the thread, I like "perilous pins" as long as there is a "safe side" in which one can "bail out" if they so choose to.
And that hole to the left is O.B.
Oh Yeah... I forgot about this one. Almost as bad as Brackett's #10 in terms of height... but possibly worse due to the OB that's right next to the hill.
And the basket that practically hangs over the creek is dope too.
DSCJNKY
Not as bad as some of these others but this shot at Crooked Creek can be pretty nasty. It is a short downhill onto this island surrounded by creek.
fairweather_fan
Eagle Member
rock spring park in alton, il uses fast greens and precarious pin positions to good effect throughout the course. challenging yet fair, it's IMO one of the finest courses in the st. louis area.
hole 1: view in pic is back toward tee, with green sloping to moderate schule
hole 4: the pin is on a small 'terrace' that has a steep drop off behind it to an OB road, and most appoaches are taken from a landing zone roughly 15' above pin level.
hole 6: a short-ish LHBH hyzer leads you to this tough green with OB cobblestone-path down the hill to the right in the pic
hole 7: a short RHBH hyzer to another tough green area that punishes any too-aggressive tee shots
hole 13: approach softly, or roll far-ly (pic is taken from behind basket)
there are a few others that play close to OB (holes 2, 9, 14, and 18), and others that have significant greenside obstacles from one or more directions (holes 11, 12, 15, and 17), requiring the player to really think carefully about the risk/reward scenario and execute their shots to score well.
(sorry about the oversize pics)
hole 1: view in pic is back toward tee, with green sloping to moderate schule
hole 4: the pin is on a small 'terrace' that has a steep drop off behind it to an OB road, and most appoaches are taken from a landing zone roughly 15' above pin level.
hole 6: a short-ish LHBH hyzer leads you to this tough green with OB cobblestone-path down the hill to the right in the pic
hole 7: a short RHBH hyzer to another tough green area that punishes any too-aggressive tee shots
hole 13: approach softly, or roll far-ly (pic is taken from behind basket)
there are a few others that play close to OB (holes 2, 9, 14, and 18), and others that have significant greenside obstacles from one or more directions (holes 11, 12, 15, and 17), requiring the player to really think carefully about the risk/reward scenario and execute their shots to score well.
(sorry about the oversize pics)
Great pin sites there! I have played several with the pin on a steep hill and man, you have to get that putt to stick onthe ground or it will be a rollin away.
