What is the Hardest/Difficult Golf course you have played ?

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I can name 2 - one was 75.0/ 148 and the other is 74.3/145 - yes I had to play from the Tips in this tournament. No age or handicap consideration. made for a tough three days. how about you what has been your personal experience.?
Please list rating and slope of your course that you played from.. not the hardest Tees they have but the Rating and Slope you actually played.
Brasada Canyons and Pronghorn Nicklaus are the courses I list above. yes edited to add bold
 
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Victoria National.
 
Pine Needles in North Carolina. Those mounded, turtle back greens of Donald Ross were a killer for me. When I played there a few years back, my wedge game was not as good as it is now. Hopefully, I can do better next time.
 
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Good replies so far - wonder if anyone read the post.. ?????
 
Bethpage Black 74.2 / 148
 
Played Bethpage Black as far back as they’d let us the last day it was open before the Barclays playoff event…brutally hard
 
Good replies so far - wonder if anyone read the post.. ?????
You edited the post after two of them had already responded and the third was probably writing their post based on your original version. Kind of unfair to ask if they've read it when you edited it on them
 
PGA West Stadium slope 148
Nicklaus Tournament Course aka Q School Slope 143

The Nicklaus Course was the hardest course I have ever played. Fairways looked easy, but get into the first cut and you are fighting the course every shot after that.
 
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You edited the post after two of them had already responded and the third was probably writing their post based on your original version. Kind of unfair to ask if they've read it when you edited it on them
think I was editing while some were replying.. was not my intent.. sorry of timing as off. of course one would think just saying a tough course without slope and rating does not make much sense Eh? So if I said Quail Hollow was a tough course -- what does that mean to anyone without saying the slope and rating you played.? I had the slope rating of the two courses I played in the original post thinking that is how one rated a difficulty.
 
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Vijay’s course in Fiji is loaded with long par 4s uphill into the wind with tiny fairways. Toughest course I have played in the world by a large margin.
 
Prairie Dunes. Had the opportunity to play it very early in my golf career over 10 years ago and it ate my lunch. Hoping to get out there this upcoming season. Have a connection through a buddy so I am hoping to get back out there next season.
 
cant help but wonder what the course handicap would be over and above the handicap index of those courses mentioned above - must be at least 5-6 strokes. makes for a tough day, :golf:
 
Cog Hill Dubsdread and Treetops Masterpiece are the two that jump out to me. Dubsdread can tip out at over 7,500 yards and is rated as 153/78 on a par 72. If you drop down a few tee boxes though they both rate 140 from about 6,6/700 where we played them. Both wild courses.

Victoria National I believe will take that top spot for me next year though, even though tipped out it’s actually slightly “easier” rated than cog hill at 152/77.7 around 7,200. Cog hill is mostly bunkers that you can hope to save yourself, while Vic is a lot of water that you can’t…so I think that should make it play much harder. Vic does keep a higher slope rating when playing around 6,400 where we’ll be playing it of 145, but scoring rating is +.8 while cog hill maintains +2.2 at the lower distance.

None of those are easy though lol
 
Oak Tree National from the tips.

7412, 79.3, 155

I’ve played three rounds from there. Every time an ass kicker.
 
Cog Hill Dubsdread and Treetops Masterpiece are the two that jump out to me. Dubsdread can tip out at over 7,500 yards and is rated as 153/78 on a par 72. If you drop down a few tee boxes though they both rate 140 from about 6,6/700 where we played them. Both wild courses.

Victoria National I believe will take that top spot for me next year though, even though tipped out it’s actually slightly “easier” rated than cog hill at 152/77.7 around 7,200. Cog hill is mostly bunkers that you can hope to save yourself, while Vic is a lot of water that you can’t…so I think that should make it play much harder. Vic does keep a higher slope rating when playing around 6,400 where we’ll be playing it of 145, but scoring rating is +.8 while cog hill maintains +2.2 at the lower distance.

None of those are easy though lol
so what did you shoot when you played it at 153/78? just curious?
 
so what did you shoot when you played it at 153/78? just curious?
Oh I didn’t play the tips there, that’s suicide on that course lol. I mentioned we played it a couple tee boxes up a little more towards 6,600. Still rates at 140/74.2 from there though.
 
Oak Tree National from the tips.

7412, 79.3, 155

I’ve played three rounds from there. Every time an ass kicker.

dont ya just love 600 yard par 5s... ?? there was supposed to be a course built out here that was going to have a Par 7 - but they ran outa money and never built it.
 
dont ya just love 600 yard par 5s... ?? there was supposed to be a course built out here that was going to have a Par 7 - but they ran outa money and never built it.
It’s a ton of fun. Long day, but absolutely fun.

I’ve got 83, 80, and 82 on it from those tees. Enjoyed every bit of it.
 
Kapalua 74- 137
Jacks point 73.5 -140
Barnbougle dunes 70 -128
(look it up - glorious place and its sister course Lost farms )

Two of mine international ( yes not as high as some but given weather and unfamiliarity with course …. But omg spectacular
 
I have to say Wolf Creek in Mesquite, Nevada
 
Visby in a Nordic League tournament in ~2010 or so. Every green is like a bowl placed upside down, runoffs, rock hard greens, had a 4 club wind the whole tournament. I shot 79 in the pro-am and felt like a 71. I think the 36-hole cut was like 13 over par.

 
The two hardest I have played are Chambers Bay and Pacific Dunes.
 
Victoria National.
 
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