| CRAZIEST 18 HOLES IN THE BAY AREA |
| #1) Chardonnay par 4. A long par 4 over some rocks that has a green that is less than 10 yards wide and about 50 yards deep. Making a par on this hole means that you are probably a little slap-happy in the head. #2) Tilden Park par 4. It is a blind shot off the tee where you need to work it around some trees with an iron, hope you don't go OB right, and no matter what, you have 150 yards in to a green about 40 yards above you. I still can't figure out how to play this hole. #3) Poppy Ridge par 3. It is 200 yards, but it is off the side of a cliff, so you can hit a wedge, but with the wind, you never know what to hit. Just silly. #4) Canyon Lakes par 4. A par 4 that is 300 yards to an island green. Oh...you want to drive it to the green. But you lay up to 150, and still put it in the lake. #5) Rooster Run par. Long par 4 thatr dog-legs left, and runs out of fairway, but this will always be the silly hole for the fact that the Keg and the Sniper talked about monkey sex for 10 minutes. #6) Peacock Gap par 3. Has artificial turf for a tee box. Enough said. #7) Stonetree par 4. Dogleg right, up a mountain. Oh, you'll have less than 150 in, but you might hit a 6-iron. #8) Adobe Creek par 3. A meanie. Long and protected, it falls into the crazy category because of the slope. I watched Sniper make a putt into the lake on this hole, bringing back visions of the original Alabama Slammer trip. #9) Roddy Ranch par 4. There is a tree in the middle of the fairway, so you can go left of it, and hope, or go right of it and possibly be blocked into the green. Stanford has a similar hole like this. #10) Lake Chabot par 3. Short hole, and it only drops in elevation about 100 yards. You can't even see the green from the tee box because it drops off so fast. #11) Franklin Canyon par 3. A long par 3 with OB on both sides and a fairway that leans further than politition. Hit it left and pray. #12) Shadow Lakes par 4. A short par 4 with an island green and an elevated tee box. You know you can hit it 220 off the tee box, but elevation and wind makes this a 6-iron or a three-wood, depending on the day. #13) Hiddenbrooke par 3. Oh the elevation from this tee box makes it tough to judge, but the green's slope makes it tougher. Bubba made double-digits here, but he also hit it over the green, it trickled back on, and then rolled off the front of the green down a gulley. #14) Chardonnay par 3. An island green surrounded by vineyards marked OB. No drop zone. And windy. Are you kidding me? #15) Bodega Bay par 4. You can drive the green, if you aren't Snaggles, but there is trouble all the way there. Bail out, like Snaggles, and you'll probably make a bogey. #16) Harding par 4. The pros drove the green at the AMEX, but you are not Daly, so you'll probably be behind the trees that lean out into the fairway, and your 2nd shot will end up at the firing range across the lake. #17) Bridges par 5. This is what happens when you run out of room on a golf course. Creeks running through the fairway 8 times with a fairway that goes away from the green, and tough to judge second shot because they don't have distance markers there. Silly hole...ruins the course. And yet they call it their signature hole. #18) lots of choices, but you have to pick Indian Valley, and its horseshoe finishing hole. They took a par 5, and wrapped around a hill, making you wonder if you are playing the fantasy course on Golden Tee. Sure, Lake Chabot and Harding have silly finishing holes, but when you get the craziest, this one takes the cake. |