Where to Play the Ten Most Treacherous Golf Terrains on a Budget

That's right, budget golf at the roughest, most annoying courses, where every penny you pay returns you the best most exciting practice. Truly, don't report play on these courses on your handicap, just kidding. This article provides a checklist for environments every true golfer must try before they throw those golf clubs into the eternal pit of doom.

Number Ten Most Treacherous Golf Terrain Great Ricocheting Oaks

Every course has trees, but live oaks are the hardest and when planted feet apart and grown for 300 hundred years, the formula of 90% air disappears. Think 30% with live oak and it makes a course really fun. Especially since all those big heavy limbs covered with Spanish moss twist and curl in every direction.

Try it at: Chiefland Golf Course and Country Club, Chiefland, Florida [See photograph 1]

Number Nine Most Treacherous Golf Terrain Desert Dunes

This one's all sand, nothing but sand, and only more sand so bring your water bottle and say your prayers. If you thought a wall of sand was tough, try the back side of a twenty-foot sand dune. Bring a pink ball.

Try it at: Bandon Dunes Golf Course, Bandon, Oregon

Number Eight Most Treacherous Golf Terrain Crazy Eights Caribbean Coral

Yes, that's right. A gambler's dream where every shot is likely to hit a coral basement and your bet is as good as mine as to which direction if will land except it's seldom forward. Golf courses built on coral reefs grow sand atop coral with grass growing well but sometimes the coral is at the level of the grass. At that point, watch out.

Try it at: South Coast Golf Course, Nassau, Bahamas

Number Seven Most Treacherous Golf Terrain Buffalo Chipping

Get out your cowboy hat, tie on a rope around your waist in case you need help your partner up a cliff, see some wildlife on the great prairie and watch where you step. Your shot not only has to avoid those big mean horned dudes chawing cud mid fairway, but your ball may end up splat in fresh doo-doo. No problem. You're an expert, right?

Try it at: Bully Pulpit Golf Course, Medora, North Dakota [See photograph 2}

Number Six Most Treacherous Golf Terrain, the Hills Resound with the Sound of X$%^