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Tobacco Road Golf Club

Sanford, NC

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  • Every shot seems to be a blind one, very gimmicky, forces amateur golfers to take/make shots they wouldn’t normally take. Lots of fun and an experience for sure! I’d totally recommend it!


Tot Hill Farm Golf Club

Asheboro, NC

$70

  • Another Strantz course like Tobacco Road, but much cheaper and less crowded. Awesome and fun track.


Smoky Mountain Country Club

Whittier, NC

$36-$70

  • Crazy mountain golf with some very bizarre holes


Sweetens Cove Golf Club

South Pittsburg, TN

$30-$175

  • There’s “secret holes” too, or rather alternative ways to play the course. There’s an “Illuminati course” which consists of things like playing from a tee box that the No Laying Up pod guys set up at their house across the road from the 1st green (par 5 then played as par 3). You can also bid on driving Payton Mannings golf cart for the day. I went with a group of 8 and we were teeing off 8-wide and played match play scramble all day


Lightening Bug Golf Club

Triune, TN

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  • It is a weird but extremely charming little spot. 9 hole par 3 course that a guy runs on his private property. He has a cash box where you drop your green fees and go play. Completely honor system, it’s largely to encourage youth to pick the sport up. Really cool mission but totally random and strange honestly


Gaitlinburg Golf Course

Gaitlinburg, TN

$30-$75

  • Designers built holes in just the oddest places possible. Off cliffs. Up cliffs. In valleys where the fairway is 5 yards wide. Just weird.


The Creek Club

Greensboro, GA

Private

  • One of the funnest rounds of golf I’ve ever played.


Boiling Springs Golf Club

Woodward, OK

$20-$50

  • This one is pretty weird.


South Lakes Golf Course

Tulsa, OK

$10-$44

  • It is adjacent to the busiest airport in the state. Airplanes are constantly landing and taking off right above you


Willie Nelson's Cut and Putt

Austin, TX

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  • Willie Nelsons Pedernales Ranch in Austin qualifies as weird. It’s totally casual and completely run down but Willie suppliments the course to keep it open.


The Quarry Golf Course

San Antonio, TX

$49-$94

  • Entire back 9 is in an old rock quarry. You can see every hole from the top and then less and less as you play down into the bowl, then more as you play back up.