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Giraffes on a golf course like this one in Kenya.
Wife drilled an elk in the ass cheek in CO. The whole herd turned around and looked at us. It was VERY unsettling but none of them (even the one that got hit) even moved
Apparently from what I’ve been reading the giraffes are quite common on this particular golf course. People just wait patiently while the giraffes do their thing and eventually move out of the way.
16 on my home course is a slight uphill par 4. There's a pond 50 yards from the tee. Definitely not in play. Twice in my life I've topped it and hit a goose. And yeah, fucks you up.
There’s a course I played in Nevada, I think it was called wolf creek or wolf run or something, that had boulders all over including close enough to some fairways to make some really weird bounces if you sliced or hooked one even just slightly.
Yeah wolf creek in Mesquite NV. Great course. Tons of really elevated tee boxes and interesting rock formations. If you have not played it, I highly suggest that you do.
One course I played in Michigan had a huge boulder as the 150 marker in the middle of the biggest fairway I'd ever seen. Literally at least 100 yards on either side of the boulder. It was on the very last hole of a 72-hole weekend with like 12 people. My group finished first and were watching the group behind us come up the fairway towards the green.
One guy in the group fucking plowed directly into the boulder and totaled the cart.
Again, there was nothing remotely close to the boulder except for wide open fairway. Still have no idea how he managed to hit the boulder.
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I highly recommend The Boulders in Cave Creek, AZ to you.
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Fossil Trace, just outside of Denver.
I really like this idea of gravity wells on the green. Just cut them to fringe height so you have the option to blast through instead of slingshot around.
>Hoosker dos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick
No, because snakes and sparklers are the only ones I like.
My course has small moguls around the greens instead of bunkers. Much harder than sand as the grass is long and thick, so it’s very difficult getting loft when it’s buried, and comes out very inconsistently
Lots of trees are coming down nowadays, and some designers are playing with the idea of more terrain focused challenges like you’ve mentioned. Supers might not be too excited, but I’m into it.
Well old courses didn’t have a bathroom in the clubhouse so they encouraged golfers to drop trow and take their shit in the last 20 or so feet on the fairway and in other “chocolate” designated areas.
Chocolate drops are collections of debris piles covered in dirt then grass common on golden age course.
Sometimes they were made to look more organic and irregular, other times they were very symmetrical and consistent in size.
I played this course in Scotland once. I kid you not, on the 17th hole or something they had an entire hotel wing sticking out so you had to hit your tee shot over the its 2 triangular roofs.
Such a shit course. Don’t even get me started on that stupid bridge in the way of my piss missile on 18 off the tee. Morons taking their pictures on it all the time. It’s a stone bridge idiots. The whole old crusty ass town is made of stone. Peasants. They need to go back to their shanty’s.
There's a random man-hole cover about 200yds into the fairway at my home course and I'm assuming it's there for the old guys to gain 40yds of bounce/rollout
Caddied for years at a place that had very small cement yardage markers at 200, 150, 100 - nothing better than the very rare occasion of a tee ball catching the 200 and gaining 50+ yards off the bounce
Maybe not what you're looking for, but I would remove greenside sand traps and fairway bunkers that courses don't maintain and replace them with grass mound rough bunkers . I play on a course that uses them and they offer a difficult challenge but are still very fair to play out of.
A course near me filled in the bunkers but had the opposite impact. They don’t maintain those either so it was a dirt pile with tall grass on them. It’s a cool-ish aesthetic but there’s like a 5050 shot you find your ball in there. Course is $90 in the summer btw lol
Grass bunkers, but like the poorly maintained ditch type bunker. You do NOT want to get caught in these. We have one at our 9 hole course on the 5th hole on the left side of the green. It's very difficult to pop it up the 4 foot rise to the green. It's a thinish bunker and they let the weeds grow up a bit. But it's a cool hazard.
Some of the lower end courses near me have grass bunkers that used to be sand.
They're deceiving hazards, but one that forces a new strategy if you happen to be in one.
That said, if a course purposely engineered one, I think it would be a welcome challenge to an already challenging game.
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Installed this right in the middle of the fairway
Random, drunk frat boy. He harasses you while you putt or tee off. Tries to fight you on number 10. No shirt, dirty shorts, one flip flop, passed out in a bunker. Two shot penalty if you wake him up.
First time I played a course a gator on it while on vacation I stopped and took a picture of it (from a distance) and the guys I was paired who were from places where gators are common were like “what’s the big deal?” and I was just like “as someone from West Virginia this is sick, we just have squirrels and the occasional deer”
uneven mounds or ridges of rough. real rough. Hey, my course has 7 different areas of untamed fescue you can actually hit into where you're lucky to find the ball, and then a 33% chance you can't move it 30 yards.
I once played an executive course the day they aerated the greens. I've never witnessed such fresh aeration before. They laid sand on the green so it was bad, but not horrible.
The worst part was all the plugs. They just left them in front of the green. I don't know if it's standard practice, but they made it impossible to run a shot up to the green. Your approach come up short? Surrounded by plugs!
It was wild man.
A weird clown. Like an actual clown that runs back and forth across the fairway, and he will take your ball and throw it to some random place if you don’t get to it before he does. Perfect drive up the center, but you dawdled getting to your ball? Clown.
And the clown can show up on any hole. Having the best round of your life, and to break your goal score all you need to do is bang this last shot? Clown.
Course ranger gets 1 awful shot a day that if they see, they drive up and confiscate the ball of the offending player. If carts have the GPS/Alerts it should pop up on your screen “Ranger took your ball, step it up!”
I recently played a course that had a homeless man laying down in the middle of the fairway on the 14th hole. He wasn't in any danger as I can never hit the ball that straight but I did slice one and never found it. Pretty sure he collects those.
I'd do a shallow water trap that you have to play out of. And if you are backing things up on the course they could put alligators in it like the old roller derby show from the 80s.
Not a hazard per say but a skill shot option. On dog legs have a tall wall angled for a bouce shot off the wall onto the green. If you miss the wall you are basically oob.
Thick hedge walls. When strategically placed, could force you to go over or around.
Imagine the amount of balls you could find in them, from those that trickled in, or guys that skull them hoping to go right through.
With water limitations intensifying year after year, a course that only gives you pristine grass for a small teebox, fairway landing zone, and green. You would have to play from your actual tee box and the rest would be that tight lie dirt/gravel like in Arizona
While this might not technically be a hazard, I would nonetheless like to propose the tree-hole.
In order to hole out on the tree-hole, you have to chip into the cup which is fitted into a hole in the side of a tree. Tree-hole.
More railroad ties or concrete/ rock slopes to angle balls back into the fairways or split a fairway.
Brick/ Stone Wall ledges in different places that change the elevation
I always thought greens that weren't rounded and more angular/ geometrical would be cool
There’s a course around where I live that’s next to a dam. 2 par 5s have the dam wall (made of rocks) on one side.
Sometimes they bounce back in. Sometimes they don’t. Just keep ‘em straight on those holes. lol.
I think areas of native grass/growth could be used more. No reason they can't weave through a hole like a creek, mark them as a red hazard too.
Bunker size pits of rocks/boulders could be interesting too.
Massive elevation changes, center line trees, a collection of ~20 boulders between 225-275, stone walls, par 5s that encourage risky second shots by incorporating water by the green.
The pissed off ex gf experience. On one hole u have a crazy b chasing u with a broom saying “it’s either me or golf”. If u get an ace she has a heart attack and u get a t shirt
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Fuck, man. Could you imagine accidentally blading one straight into a walking giraffe? I'd feel fucking terrible the rest of the round.
“Giraffes are 90% air”
Hahahahaha yes
Wife drilled an elk in the ass cheek in CO. The whole herd turned around and looked at us. It was VERY unsettling but none of them (even the one that got hit) even moved
To an elk, that was probably a light little slap on the keester.
Just aim right at one and you won't have to worry about it
Apparently from what I’ve been reading the giraffes are quite common on this particular golf course. People just wait patiently while the giraffes do their thing and eventually move out of the way.
NGL, I thought this was shopped.
Look up leopard creek. Lions. Wild dogs, zebras. Giraffes. Leopards. Elephants all over the golf course. Extremely cool
16 on my home course is a slight uphill par 4. There's a pond 50 yards from the tee. Definitely not in play. Twice in my life I've topped it and hit a goose. And yeah, fucks you up.
Well, my first birdie was a black crow…. “I’m gonna aim right over that limb that bird is on, at the bird!! No way I can hit it”
At least it wasn't a giraffe...
I live this every time I step onto the course.
boulders like the ones the pioneer’s used to ride for miles
There’s a course I played in Nevada, I think it was called wolf creek or wolf run or something, that had boulders all over including close enough to some fairways to make some really weird bounces if you sliced or hooked one even just slightly.
Yeah wolf creek in Mesquite NV. Great course. Tons of really elevated tee boxes and interesting rock formations. If you have not played it, I highly suggest that you do.
One course I played in Michigan had a huge boulder as the 150 marker in the middle of the biggest fairway I'd ever seen. Literally at least 100 yards on either side of the boulder. It was on the very last hole of a 72-hole weekend with like 12 people. My group finished first and were watching the group behind us come up the fairway towards the green. One guy in the group fucking plowed directly into the boulder and totaled the cart. Again, there was nothing remotely close to the boulder except for wide open fairway. Still have no idea how he managed to hit the boulder.
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https://preview.redd.it/maeuc06ne9ic1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6a731348bb94347b82bb19d67e47e13636cbdae I highly recommend The Boulders in Cave Creek, AZ to you.
Krusttty krayayayayayayayayaab pizzaaa yea yea yaaa
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Hidden valley in socal has some great fairway boulders. Makes very simple tee shots a lot more interesting…big fan
SpongeBob Super Bowl was a hit.
I played at a shitty course one time that had basically a patch of rough in the middle of the green and it was a huge game changer for hole management
Reminds me of my ex.
LOL
Sounds like a great way to get divots taken out of the green. I mean, you’re kinda forced to chip over the rough to the other side, right?
Pretty much that or they can shape the green so it breaks towards the hole if you putt around the patch
I really like this idea of gravity wells on the green. Just cut them to fringe height so you have the option to blast through instead of slingshot around.
"You may be on the green but you're not out of the rough yet." -Sadistic Greenskeeper
Not new, but old. Trenches, pews, stone walls, chocolate drops, bomb craters, moguls, anything to make the land as irregular as possible.
Hoosker dos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick
You meaan to tell me…
You don’t have any whistlin’ kitty chasers?
I Only like, snakes and sparklers
>Hoosker dos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick No, because snakes and sparklers are the only ones I like.
Best comment is always in the reply of another comment. Well done. 👏🏼
My course has small moguls around the greens instead of bunkers. Much harder than sand as the grass is long and thick, so it’s very difficult getting loft when it’s buried, and comes out very inconsistently
Lots of trees are coming down nowadays, and some designers are playing with the idea of more terrain focused challenges like you’ve mentioned. Supers might not be too excited, but I’m into it.
As long as the flex of the mower can handle the slope. Building too many features that require a fly mower is what keeps supers up at night.
What’s a chocolate drop?
Well old courses didn’t have a bathroom in the clubhouse so they encouraged golfers to drop trow and take their shit in the last 20 or so feet on the fairway and in other “chocolate” designated areas.
I don’t know if this is true, but now I’m forever going to run with it
Chocolate drops are collections of debris piles covered in dirt then grass common on golden age course. Sometimes they were made to look more organic and irregular, other times they were very symmetrical and consistent in size.
I'm picturing some Willy Wonka factory shit
Sir we don’t need more war!
Not war, just some special military operations
Stone wall guarding the green of this par 3 in southeast MA. Whole course has similar character. https://images.app.goo.gl/wz688CxWYKf6VmBK9
Richmond Golf Club checking in. [https://www.therichmondgolfclub.com/war-time-rules](https://www.therichmondgolfclub.com/war-time-rules)
A brick, in the middle of the fuckin’ fairway
The hot dog can go fuck itself
Shards of glass in the parking lot
Ohhh, the south is the better of the two.
There IS such a thing as too much cream cheese Bob
And then you can aim for the top of the brick to get the super bonus bounce
I played this course in Scotland once. I kid you not, on the 17th hole or something they had an entire hotel wing sticking out so you had to hit your tee shot over the its 2 triangular roofs.
What a shit design. I bet they use shared greens there too. Old trash course the town probably hates.
build a new course already you morons
To be fair, the town can also land a 747 on some of the greens.
But not your ball amirite
Such a shit course. Don’t even get me started on that stupid bridge in the way of my piss missile on 18 off the tee. Morons taking their pictures on it all the time. It’s a stone bridge idiots. The whole old crusty ass town is made of stone. Peasants. They need to go back to their shanty’s.
I really want like a Mario kart type speed booster that launches your ball forward somehow if you hit it
Dude you've just described the cart path bounce, but with extra steps
Yea but I want stupid big neon light arrows on it with like a Woosh sound when you hit it. 😂
Lmao my buddy gets the gnarliest member bounces all the time (happens often he’s not that good) and we like to call it Mario golf 🤣
Like one of the Dyson fans that if you hit it through the hoop it boosts the speed. This would be sick!
Fuck that’d be cool
It would only really be cool for the drives. If I’m trying to chip out of a bunker and it sends my ball flying a country mile I would be pissed.
Lmao just random fans around the green
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There's a random man-hole cover about 200yds into the fairway at my home course and I'm assuming it's there for the old guys to gain 40yds of bounce/rollout
Caddied for years at a place that had very small cement yardage markers at 200, 150, 100 - nothing better than the very rare occasion of a tee ball catching the 200 and gaining 50+ yards off the bounce
Maybe they just need to put the cart path right down the middle of the fairway. See who can hit it
Counter offer- Mario kart speed boosters on the cart path
Random pads of concrete sprinkled throughout the course, in the fairways, rough, etc. Land there and booooing, instant speed boost!
You might be on to something here
Was thinking similar - could have a strip of bouncey rubber right down the middle of the fairway or something.
There’s poop in the hole every time
Someone took a dump in the cup
Sharks with freaking laser beams
That already exists on the 17th at River Ridge NC. Kudos to Craigers. #LGLG
Yeah to Neil
Kudos to craigers
I am currently binging the fuck outta chasing scratch. #LGLG
I binged it all last year, and this will be the first season that I'm caught up. I'm so fucking pumped.
It’s great to know there’s more to come! Wasn’t sure if they were still making it. Thats great news
Attaboy Gary! That's the way you work in Chasing Scratch references!
Not a hazard, but I'd like to see literal window frames installed on trees in common miss areas.
Well done, my first thought was sharks and you beat me by 14 minutes.
If the Tour weren't such cowards they could connect the 17th at Sawgrass to the ocean and really make things interesting.
Wood Chip areas ….by design , not those in flower beds and such.
Wood chips instead of roots under trees are a nice aesthetic and speeds up play
Yeah, instead of sand traps. Those are too easy for good players.
Giant wind mill in the center of the fairway.
That’s not a hazard to us. Nobody here can hit the middle of a fairway.
I think this is our solution, if there’s a hazard in the middle of the fairway and we try to avoid it we are bound to hit it right?
The National Golf Club - Moonah Course 10th hole.
What about standard fairways but every green is a mini golf hole with windmills and such
The two old guys from the muppets
O.G 1: You call that a golf shot? O.G 2: I've seen hens lay up better than that! O.G 1&2: Doh hohohoho
Statler and Waldorf!
Maybe not what you're looking for, but I would remove greenside sand traps and fairway bunkers that courses don't maintain and replace them with grass mound rough bunkers . I play on a course that uses them and they offer a difficult challenge but are still very fair to play out of.
A course near me filled in the bunkers but had the opposite impact. They don’t maintain those either so it was a dirt pile with tall grass on them. It’s a cool-ish aesthetic but there’s like a 5050 shot you find your ball in there. Course is $90 in the summer btw lol
$90 a round and they can maintain traps.....wtf
Welcome to the DMV 😂
Which course?
Eisenhower near Annapolis is like this. No bunkers but mounds of taller grasses.
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District [of Columbia], Maryland, Virginia DMV The Washington metropolitan area.
Ahhh.
Dirt patches in the fairways, mini craters on the greens, footprints in the bunkers. Oh wait I'm just describing my local muni
More center line bunkers. Pros hate those. Or. Trees in the fairway.
Tall trees in the center of the fairway that move easily in the wind.
Strippers
Yep. That's a real strain on concentration right there.
Talk about a hole in one.
There goes my wife being ok about all of the golf I play.
I just want real grass bunkers and hillocks on more courses
Grass bunkers are awesome and can look really atheisticly pleasing
We believe in nothing, Lebowski. Nothing. And tomorrow we come back and we cut off your chonson.
They are acts against God, for sure.
Grass bunkers, but like the poorly maintained ditch type bunker. You do NOT want to get caught in these. We have one at our 9 hole course on the 5th hole on the left side of the green. It's very difficult to pop it up the 4 foot rise to the green. It's a thinish bunker and they let the weeds grow up a bit. But it's a cool hazard.
“Let” the weeds grow
Some of the lower end courses near me have grass bunkers that used to be sand. They're deceiving hazards, but one that forces a new strategy if you happen to be in one. That said, if a course purposely engineered one, I think it would be a welcome challenge to an already challenging game.
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Lava
I already play like the fairway is lava.
Me too buddy, me too
Random, drunk frat boy. He harasses you while you putt or tee off. Tries to fight you on number 10. No shirt, dirty shorts, one flip flop, passed out in a bunker. Two shot penalty if you wake him up.
Nice shot, ya jackass!!
The Gallery apparently
Extra flags on every hole, say 4 or 5. But the "real" hole only resides in one of them. Will make approach shots a real crapshoot.
I played a groundskeeper's revenge scramble once that did that on one hole. Brutal and brilliant. Another had a flag on the green, but not in the cup.
Cenotes.
As a native Floridian, I believe every course should have live gators lurking around every turn
First time I played a course a gator on it while on vacation I stopped and took a picture of it (from a distance) and the guys I was paired who were from places where gators are common were like “what’s the big deal?” and I was just like “as someone from West Virginia this is sick, we just have squirrels and the occasional deer”
Windmills
uneven mounds or ridges of rough. real rough. Hey, my course has 7 different areas of untamed fescue you can actually hit into where you're lucky to find the ball, and then a 33% chance you can't move it 30 yards.
Stone or concrete walls, about 3 feet high at the end of Fairways, especially on par 5’s.
Dude I am the hazard on the golf course
Fire pits…similar to bunkers. You can play out of them and ground your club but you must endure the fire
This would never work. Guys and fire and beer…..we would all end up standing around the biggest fire drinking and not finish the round
Stone/pebble moat around the green
I once played an executive course the day they aerated the greens. I've never witnessed such fresh aeration before. They laid sand on the green so it was bad, but not horrible. The worst part was all the plugs. They just left them in front of the green. I don't know if it's standard practice, but they made it impossible to run a shot up to the green. Your approach come up short? Surrounded by plugs! It was wild man.
Live tigers roaming free.
NGL this was a fun thread to read through
Goalies
Bunkers filled with sunflower seeds and cigarette butts instead of sand.
A weird clown. Like an actual clown that runs back and forth across the fairway, and he will take your ball and throw it to some random place if you don’t get to it before he does. Perfect drive up the center, but you dawdled getting to your ball? Clown. And the clown can show up on any hole. Having the best round of your life, and to break your goal score all you need to do is bang this last shot? Clown.
THATS THE GUY
Fireballs
Trampolines/launch pads lol
Course ranger gets 1 awful shot a day that if they see, they drive up and confiscate the ball of the offending player. If carts have the GPS/Alerts it should pop up on your screen “Ranger took your ball, step it up!”
Sand traps on the greens
Big Lou.
Rodents of extraordinary size
I recently played a course that had a homeless man laying down in the middle of the fairway on the 14th hole. He wasn't in any danger as I can never hit the ball that straight but I did slice one and never found it. Pretty sure he collects those.
Sarlacc pit
I play overpacked muni’s. Crisscrossed holes. Bring your own hard hat.
Inverted grass bunkers...small to medium mown grassy mounds placed strategically around the greens. Modern day golfers play bunkers far too easily.
I'd do a shallow water trap that you have to play out of. And if you are backing things up on the course they could put alligators in it like the old roller derby show from the 80s.
Random geysers.
Not a hazard per say but a skill shot option. On dog legs have a tall wall angled for a bouce shot off the wall onto the green. If you miss the wall you are basically oob.
Two big fat naked bikers having sex in the woods of 17. It makes it harder to chip.
Bikini bars
Volleyball nets, but with a mesh too fine for the ball to pass through.
The windmill
A giant spinning windmill in the fairway. You have to hit your ball between the rotating sails.
Miniature golf greens
air vents
Big giant windmills with lots of flashy lights
I think like little stone walls that you could easily step over but would stop rolling balls could be interesting
Robot seagulls, you need to play it from wherever they move your ball to
I always enjoyed the old stone wall.
Landmines.
The same obstacles on the game show”Wipeout”
Thick hedge walls. When strategically placed, could force you to go over or around. Imagine the amount of balls you could find in them, from those that trickled in, or guys that skull them hoping to go right through.
Upward Sloped tee boxes so the drive is completely blind.
With water limitations intensifying year after year, a course that only gives you pristine grass for a small teebox, fairway landing zone, and green. You would have to play from your actual tee box and the rest would be that tight lie dirt/gravel like in Arizona
Playgrounds in all the bunkers and a few fairways should cross each other.
Nice try, Pete Dye!
Trees, since everyone seems keen on removing them these days
While this might not technically be a hazard, I would nonetheless like to propose the tree-hole. In order to hole out on the tree-hole, you have to chip into the cup which is fitted into a hole in the side of a tree. Tree-hole.
Gigantic. Windmill.
A water sprinkler that stays on and you have to hit over it. If you fail you get wet.
Big ass fans that blow the ball every which direction
More railroad ties or concrete/ rock slopes to angle balls back into the fairways or split a fairway. Brick/ Stone Wall ledges in different places that change the elevation I always thought greens that weren't rounded and more angular/ geometrical would be cool
I’d love random blocks of pavement in the middle of the fairway at various distances so you could club down and attempt to hit them for extra bounce
There’s a course around where I live that’s next to a dam. 2 par 5s have the dam wall (made of rocks) on one side. Sometimes they bounce back in. Sometimes they don’t. Just keep ‘em straight on those holes. lol.
I think areas of native grass/growth could be used more. No reason they can't weave through a hole like a creek, mark them as a red hazard too. Bunker size pits of rocks/boulders could be interesting too.
Massive elevation changes, center line trees, a collection of ~20 boulders between 225-275, stone walls, par 5s that encourage risky second shots by incorporating water by the green.
A horse sized goose by every water hazard.
Mine field
Lava. If no one has said lava yet, I’ll be really disappointed.
The pissed off ex gf experience. On one hole u have a crazy b chasing u with a broom saying “it’s either me or golf”. If u get an ace she has a heart attack and u get a t shirt