12 Beautiful Golf Holes Worth The Green Fee Alone
Have you ever played a golf course where one particular hole has stood out for all the right reasons and lived long in the memory? The rest of the course may have been perfectly fine and enjoyable to play, too, but one hole just stopped you in your tracks and perhaps even made you feel that it had been worth the green fee alone just to discover and play that one hole?
We’re not talking about the kind of course here that sits at the very pinnacle of our Top 100 UK&I course rankings, where any number of holes might be blessed with ‘signature’ status. This is about courses unlikely to ever feature in such lists, but which have one hole that could hold its own in any company.
A little while ago, my colleague, Rob Smith, and I wracked our brains to come up with a number of such holes from our experiences of playing a total of 2,000+ golf courses between us. Here, after much deliberation and back and forth, are 12 holes throughout mainland Britain that we feel are, indeed, worth the green fee alone…
Par-3 holes
Eyemouth, Scottish Borders – par-3 6th, 167 yards
(Image credit: Eyemouth Golf Club)
Rob Smith: Eyemouth Golf Club‘s extremely varied coastal course in the Borders was augmented to 18 holes just over 25 years ago. Its signature hole is not so much about the target as the carry. The tee is on one side of a dramatic, deep, rocky inlet, at the base of which must be the wrecks of a thousand Titleists. The carry to safety is perhaps only 145 yards, but into the wind it looks, feels and plays substantially longer. There is no real trouble around the green, so the secret is to take more club and commit!
Dalmally, Argyll & Bute – par-3 3rd, 175 yards
(Image credit: Jeremy Ellwood)
Jeremy Ellwood: Dalmally is an unheralded but beautifully appointed nine-holer at the far end of dramatic Loch Awe. When I visited in 2013 I hailed this hole one of the best par 3s I’d ever played, and it does now enjoy a bit of cult status. Why? Well, it’s a majestic hole playing along, rather than across, a kink in the River…
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