Not the sexy choice but #7 at Peninsula Golf Club in Gulf Shores, AL is my memorable hole.  I have played a lot of golf but this hole is one of the most scenic for me.  Mobile Bay right behind the hole really sets the scene and makes the hole a very memorable experience.

My favorite hole is hole #4 at Paris Landing Golf Course at Paris Landing State Park in Tennessee.  It's a downhill par 3 with the green sitting right on the edge of Kentucky Lake. I just enjoy standing on the tee box taking in the view!

Barry

Number 18 from the tips at Pebble Beach on a beautiful September 5th morning.....Of course, the birdie sweetened the deal!!

I have never played TPC Sawgrass but  I do believe that the par 3 17 it is a very nice hole. I hope you all can agree with me.

Wow cool pics Steve!!!

Great question, guys. So many options but here are a few of my favorites...

The 17th on the Ocean Course at Cabo Del Sol...

The 17th on the Dunes Course at Diamante in Cabo...

The 18th at The Bears Club...

And the 3rd Hole of the Championship layout at The Country Club in Brookline...

So many to choose from.  Guess I have a Pete Dye fetish.  His courses are challenging and fun.

Paiute Resort. Wolf Course. Hole #15.  Island green.    My favorite resort courses anywhere.

Oak Tree National.  Hole #4.  So much history on this course.

Karsten Creek. Hole # 11.  Really hard to pick one hole on this tough track.

Medinah Course 3, Hole # 13.   This hole was awesome, and I walked over the bridge that all the worlds best travel on their way to the green.  

TT

I was thinking that you would have picked a different hole at Medinah. You know the one that caused you to decimate the Blue Moon supply.

TH

I was very lucky to have worked at Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton, MA.  Myopia hosted four U.S. Open Championships at the turn of the 20th century and it still boasts the highest winning score in U.S. Open history (331 by Willie Anderson in 1901).  Myopia also enjoys the distinction of being the only course to have two holes ranked in the top-100 in the U.S. 

One of these holes, the par-4 4th, is a hole I wouldn't mind playing every day.  Named Miles River, it's a dogleg left, about 420 yards long that requires decisive thinking on every shot. It never plays the same way twice and many times BOGEY is a really good score.  This is mainly due to severely pitched green, which slopes severely back-right to front-left. In those early U.S. Opens, before they added deep collection bunkers to front the green, there were many reports of players putting off the green and into...you guessed it...the Miles River.

This is a view of the 4th green at Myopia from the 5th tee.  From this angle the river is out of frame to the right.  Good luck putting from above this hole!

Myopia's 9th hole is also a beauty.  It's just 130 yards long, but the green is only 9 yards wide and it's aggressively defended, as you can tell from this photo. 

A very special place.

I'd say #10 at Bel Air Country Club. It's 200-215 yard long par 3. Over a canyon with trees.

The Country Club of Charleston, hole No. 11, the demanding 171-yard, “Reverse Redan,” which has tantalized all too many golfers since its creation in 1925 by course architect Seth Raynor.

Over the years, No. 11 has proven a hotbed of misfortune and triumph. Club historian Dr. John Boatwright shares the story of Sam Snead finishing third at the 1937 Tournament of the Gardens Open after having led the field the first day.

“But for a 13 he carded on the 11th,” Boatwright says, “Snead probably would have won that event.”

In 1960, at the 15th Azalea Invitational Golf Tournament, a prestigious men’s amateur event, Tim Veach carded a 10 on the diabolical hole, and did it by holing a shot from the front bunker. According to Charleston’s Post and Courier, the high mark on the par 3 that day was a 15.

Ben Hogan once quipped that there were 17 great holes at Charleston. Not lost in his praise was the implication that No. 11 was not one of them. Purportedly, Snead once mentioned in jest that two sticks of dynamite would most improve the hole.

Some golfers believe the best way to play the 11th is to lay up short of the green. The late Henry Picard, a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and an early club professional at Charleston, thought tournament contenders should play for a chip and a possible two-putt bogey, only going for the elevated putting surface if they were playing catch-up.

As Charles Blair Macdonald’s construction engineer, Raynor practiced the art of imitation by taking distinctive design features from famous holes of the British Isles and reproducing them on American soil. Raynor continued to employ this tactic on a variety of his solo designs.

One of Macdonald and Raynor’s most famous hole replications was the Redan, which is fittingly defined as “a fortification or a well-guarded fortress.” Spawning from the par-3 15th hole at North Berwick Golf Club in Scotland, most Redans are characterized by the following design principles:

• An elongated putting surface oriented at a 45-degree angle from the tee and positioned on a natural tableland, so it cannot be fully seen from the tee;

• A putting surface that is boldly pitched from front right to back left, away from the tee;

• Deep bunkers guarding the front and rear of the green;

• A high shoulder along the outer edge of the green that serves to deflect balls toward the center.

The mirror image of a Redan is suitably called a Reverse Redan, which contains all the design components of a Redan except that the green cants and tilts in the opposite direction – from front left to back right. Some famous Reverse Redan adaptations include No. 8 at The Creek (Locust Valley, N.Y.), No. 6 at Fox Chapel (Pittsburgh, Pa.), and No. 7 at Sleepy Hollow (Scarborough, N.Y.). But none has proven more tactical than Hole 11 at Charleston.

Here, the tee box is positioned on top of an old Confederate battery means that was used during the Civil War to forewarn of approaching enemies.

“Hole 11 always demands a thorough examination of the best way to play the hole,” says Boatwright. “The options change with every shift of the wind from Wappoo Waterway. The Azalea champions are always the golfers who play hole 11 the smartest.”

The most heroic playing option is to take dead aim at the green and challenge both the front bunker (which is 11 feet deep) and the rear bunker (which is 7 feet deep). Golfers historically have tallied enormous scores on the hole by proceeding to either leave their next shot(s) in the bunker or blasting it back and forth between bunkers.

Golfers may instead choose to utilize the high shoulder contour on the left portion of the green to funnel shots diagonally toward the hole location. There’s also a ground-game option that encompasses the left portion of the putting surface.

Rich in history and one that will drive you nuts.   A real challange and one I would play day in and day out.  I worked the US Women's Amateur last year which afforded me the opportunity to play this private club overlooking dowtown Charleston and the waterway.  Oh what a view.   

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My most memorable hole is a toss up between two top choices...

1) Newport Country Club - #1.  The starting hole of a very memorable/historic/incredible golf course.  The view from the tee is not very unique, except that you are starting in front of one of the most amazing clubhouses in golf.  

2) The Pointe at Tapatio Cliffs in Phoenix, AZ - #11.  This 165 yard par 3 is called the Snake Pit.  I was playing there on St. Patrick's Day several years ago and struck my 8 iron pure.  The Titleist ball that I was using (I think it was a DT, but it was a few years ago and on St. Pats Day...), landed just over the flag and spun back towards the hole.  The white ball disappeared into the cup for my 1st hole-in-one!    

Unfortunately, I do not have a photo of the hole...

Teeth of the Dog's #5... An epic par 3 and love Pete Dye, my favorite designer!

I agree Tim, I love Pete Dye courses.  Had a connection at Oak Tree National that may have faded now and wish I knew about Paiute when I was last in Vegas a few years ago.  Karsten Creek looks sweet as well!!

Warwick Hills C.C. in Grand Blanc, Michigan.

Hole #1.  Where our house was off the 1st green and I grew up with my friends.

Priceless...

#3 at comanche trail hole in one first and only one 183 yards into a 30 mile wind with a 3 iron cost me alot of beer but worth it

hope i can experience tomorrow in the city championship final round

My most memorable hole is the 16th at Cypress Point. So much history there - Bing Crosby, Clint Eastwood, AP, JN and so many more. No carts were permitted, so the caddy assigned to me was Otto. On that par 3, it was playing about 230 that day, he told me to take my driver and smack it as hard as I could. I hit my first ball through the fairway into the Pacific. The next was just short of the green. Chipped up and made the putt. He let me putt for another five minutes just to enjoy the scenery. Gorgeous. Absolutely the best place on planet earth.

Under different circumstances, I'd say the 17th at TPC Sawgrass. However, recently, my dad, now at the age of 77, had a massive stroke. As an avid golfer, Dad often shoots his age or better. His last 2 rounds were 68 & 69 (Par 70). Possibly the last golf he will play. That said, my most memorable hole is the last hole I played with him. Those of you who's father plays, play with him every chance you have. You never know when he will be unable to play again.  I am hopeful, one day dad WILL play again, but I'm thankful he's still alive. #lovemydad

This is a great question.  I have used up a couple hours worth of brain neurons trying to think of what hole I've played that was the most memorable.  #18 at Harbor Town was memorable, so were all of Dye's torture with those par 3's with the wind.  Playing Pinehurst #2 with a good caddy and scoring a double eagle on the par 5 Hall of Fame hole was a wet your pants moment.  Playing at Waterton, Canada with the Rocky Mountains as a backdrop, hitting an 8 iron in close on #12 and then watch as a fairly large grizzly bear walked onto the green, now that was a little different.  Then there is a little 9 hole course in Green River Utah that had a par 4 with an angled fairway that drove me nuts, I hit every ball in my bag the first day there trying to figure out the right spot to hit without running thru the fairway or dumping one in the river.  The oasis beauty of Death Valley golf course.  #18 on the Greenbriar Old White course before it became a TPC.

So I'm gonna have to delay my choice of Most Memorable hole until I have played all of the courses in America.  Scotland.  Ireland.  And, Sweden.  Oh yeah, Nova Scotia looks inviting.  Kinda like to go down and play Puerto Rico too.  Two things have just occurred to me, I do need to win the lottery, and I need to outlive Moses.