The Crucible - Hole #11
Par 4, 689 feet


Here's an adequate picture of the tee. This is from 2004. It's not that tight of a shot but it still seems to get into peoples head(s?).

Hole 11 plays from a shaded cove of a tee down a sidehill fairway and then over the crest of a hill about halfway down the fairway, then reasonably sharply downhill to the basket which is protected on the back and, to a lesser extent, to the left and right by trees. There is an OB fence the length of the hole on the left which is the park boundary.

The tee area got so muddy that we had to shorten the hole by about 150' for the fourth round, which made the hole play about a shot and a half easier. Nobody really eagled the hole.


  Overall
Open Men
Pro Masters Men
Advanced Men
Open Women
Average
4.8 (5)
4.2 (6)
4.4 (7)
5.1 (4)
4.3 (14)
Eagles
2
2
0
0
0
Birdies
25
11
3
10
1
Pars
61
20
10
30
1
Bogeys
56
8
4
43
2
Doubles
26
3
2
21
0
Other
18
2
1
15
0

 

 


This is an excellent landing area. You can see the basket down the hill... this is a tough place to land unless you throw left handed. Thing is, if you're left handed and you're here then you don't have a good angle at the basket. Funny how that works.

This is what happens if you get too far left. That there's OB in the middle of the bushes (a fence runs through them). A bad place to be, although in this case it looks like at least there's a nice hyzer gap. Still, from this distance you're just hoping to save par.

 

 

 

 


I really like this hole. When the course goes in as a permanent course this hole will be #1 (well, it will really be #4 or so but will be the first of the "real" holes to be played) as the path to the front side of the park comes in near the tee. I love the tee area, it used to have a dead little tree trunk that looked like a fence post which was sort of in the way about 20 feet off the pad. It wasn't really in the way but you'd think it was. I loved it. Somebody knocked it down. I wish I knew who.

This hole is one of the unfortunate few to have OB, which is the fence that runs down the length of the hole on the left, it's not technically a property line anymore, but we just can't play it as not OB because there are huge clearing jobs that have to be done to make it anything other than a briar patch. There are a good number of discs in those briars. I waded in after the team tournament and pulled some out. Fun, fun, fun!

This is a pretty neat tee shot, I think, but I'm too tired to articulate why I think that so just come play it and see for yourself. In fact, this is one of my favorite holes on the course.

There were really only 7 birdies on this one during the first 3 rounds (when we played the hole as it was intended) and nobody got it twice. Two were by ams (Mike Dammes and Matt Stockton).

On the ugly side, Michael Sperow (who built the bridges on holes 7 and 8) took a 10 in the second round. We had 2 9's, 4 8's, and 11 7's. It's not that hard, guys. There's really not much in the way once you crest the hill. Just enjoy being able to throw a big downhill hyzer, eh?


This is what happens if you have lots of power but hyzer out left. Pretty much you're screwed at that point. If you notice he's thrown what looks like a pretty nice forehand roller. Forehand rollers are a last resort for most people...

Here's a shot looking down towards the basket, which is visible to the left of the tree to the left of my dad's goofy yellow Georgia Tech hat. That hat was mine at one time, but I didn't like it. He resurrected it and has been wearing it for years. But I digress.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


This is a shot from 2002 from the middle pad. This is where we played from in the 4th round this year. The real tee is about 150 feet back and to the left. A good drive from the real pad lands to the left of the trees which are just to the left of Dave's disc in this picture. The basket is straight ahead through that gap, then downhill to the left a bit.

 

 

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