And quirky, severe hazards prompted The Bad Little Nine at Scottsdale National to bill itself as the world’s toughest – or at least strangest – par-3 course. Goats are used as caddies at the seven-hole McVeigh’s Gauntlet at Silvies Valley Ranch in eastern Oregon (wearing cooler packs, they’ll also carry your refreshments). At The Cradle at Pinehurst you can play barefoot and order snacks at a food truck while music streams through speakers. Bougle Run will feature no hole indexes, requiring any strokes given or received to be negotiated before a shot is struck. The intrinsic non-conformity promotes an anything-goes spirit. Ideal for matches and light-hearted social play, golfers are encouraged to experiment, to carry just two or three clubs, to chase long bump-and-runs off slopes and backstops, and putt 80 metres tee to green. Why? Because short courses usually accompany one or more regulation layouts, their architecture is free to offer more radical contour and psychedelic short-game situations. That’s two separate cases of a pair of established, popular 18-hole offerings expanding to include a new and different option, which is a welcome trend in itself. Miniaturised versions of their full-size siblings, they follow no formalised number of holes – there are 13 at Bandon Preserve at Bandon Dunes, 17 at The Sandbox at Sand Valley, and 10 each at The Nest at Cabot Cape Breton and the short course at Forest Dunes in northern Michigan, both of which opened last year.Ĭloser to home, two newcomers will be unveiled this month: the 14-hole Bougle Run layout adjoining the Lost Farm course at Barnbougle Dunes in Tasmania and a nine-hole short course at Victoria’s Thirteenth Beach.
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