Cliffs (Uphill)

[John Rock]

A lot of golfers have done it: You get to a downhill hole and you empty your bag trying to see just how far you can get one to go. Most of us have a story about hucking a disc off a huge cliff. What I want to hear is the opposite: What is the biggest cliff you've had to throw up or over? The steepest uphill hole you've ever played?

 

[bcr123psu]

Hole #10 at Jordan Creek
Hole #1 at Pinchot State Park - Quaker's Challenge

 

[cmcolomb]

Number 1 at the Tombigbee Course #2

 

[joshmo65]

#6 @ Slippery Rock

 

[therealbigtrav]

#3 at Hiestand and #18 at Elver are both fun downhill throws in the Madison area.

 

[chickenonabun]

hole 18 at grignon in kakauna is pretty steep going up

 

[woodstock]

#3 at Finnon Reservoir in Placerville CA. Its about 400' up a fire break, Then when you think your at the top you get to the basket which is on top of a mound of dirt 20' high thats shaped like a volcano.

 

[woodstock]

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=2945

 

[cmcolomb]

there are a few at Holler in the Hills that are treacherous uphill treks

 

[woodcutter]

Bear Creek, you can see the pin down near the pond straight adead.

 

[DGRZ001]

There's at least one hole at the Crowley, TX course where you have to huck it up at a pretty steep degree.

 

[cmcolomb]

Quick rehash of the OP for all you non-readers

A lot of golfers have done it: You get to a downhill hole and you empty your bag trying to see just how far you can get one to go. Most of us have a story about hucking a disc off a huge cliff. What I want to hear is the opposite: What is the biggest cliff you've had to throw up or over? The steepest uphill hole you've ever played?

 

[gregorvn]

Either #4 or #16 on the long layout at Campgaw Reservation in NJ

 

[DavidSauls]

Sugaree has a basket about 15' away from a 35' vertical cliff. Naturally, my overconfident putt sailed right over the edge.

Imagine standing 1' from the base of a 3 or 4 story building, trying to put a disc on the roof.

Gran Canyon had a green on a ledge, defined by a 20-25' vertical cliff which you approached along the canyon bottom and had to toss up to. (It was a wide ledge, maybe 25' x 40' (?), with the cliff continuining up behind it another dozen feet or so).

 

[John Rock]

Sugaree has a basket about 15' away from a 35' vertical cliff. Naturally, my overconfident putt sailed right over the edge.

Imagine standing 1' from the base of a 3 or 4 story building, trying to put a disc on the roof.

Gran Canyon had a green on a ledge, defined by a 20-25' vertical cliff which you approached along the canyon bottom and had to toss up to. (It was a wide ledge, maybe 25' x 40' (?), with the cliff continuining up behind it another dozen feet or so).

This is what I'm looking for. I'm thinking about a hole for a new design I'm working on where the player tees at the base of a steep/vertical to overhanging cliff and throws to the top. Probably 40-50 feet up then back away from the cliff at least 40 feet. Then the player has to walk around to a trail that leads up to the top. The basket would be out-of-sight from the tee. Any one interested?

 

[jimbosprint]

250' straight down at Toney's Mountain Golf. You do not want to run up on this tee or you risk falling off the cliff to your death. A narrow gap cut through the trees, and a hike down a fire road to get to the bottom. One pin position has you shooting back up the hill to the right, and the other is just a bit forward and left.

 

[DBdiscgolf]

Hole #27 at warriors path state park. The picture on the page has it as hole #24 because there are holes now that weren't there when the picture was taken.

 

[funkyjase]

Hole #10 at Jordan Creek
Hole #1 at Pinchot State Park - Quaker's Challenge

I just played Jordan Creek for the first time over the weekend... that hill was pretty intense.. almost had the birdie on about a 50 foot putt uphill but it fell a little short.. great course, can't wait to play it again.

 

[DavidSauls]

This is what I'm looking for. I'm thinking about a hole for a new design I'm working on where the player tees at the base of a steep/vertical to overhanging cliff and throws to the top. Probably 40-50 feet up then back away from the cliff at least 40 feet. Then the player has to walk around to a trail that leads up to the top. The basket would be out-of-sight from the tee. Any one interested?

When you say "thinking about...", do you mean you're contemplating installing a hole like this? Or just thinking in hypotheticals?

A hole that's very vertical off the tee is teetering between "challenging" and "not all that much fun". A cliff further down the fairway is much more interesting, as there's a big reward difference between hitting the top, and almost hitting the top.

Of course, anything involving cliffs has a danger factor, too, if discs land near the edge, or stick to the side of the cliff somehow.

Gran Canyon also had a "cross canyon" shot, from one clifftop to another. If you screwed it up and landed in the bottom, you had about a 40' vertical cliff to throw back up.

 

[tmahan]

#26 at Delaveaga is pretty steep and hard to get drives to stick. I think Iron Hill is supposed to have som brutal ones.