Mini golf course #2705

Play course #2705

The course below is set up for solo play against par. Your strokes and the scorecard are kept for this course; New game starts a random course instead.

Course notes

Course #2705 plays to a par of 49 over eighteen holes and 78 rooms of track — about 86 metres end to end. It is one of the trickiest courses in the set, and par asks for clean, unhurried putting from the first tee to the last. The back nine is where the course bites: par 21 out, but par 28 on the way in.

The longest hole is hole 11, with 6 rooms and 4 turns. Only hole 13 is a par 4: play it in two careful stages. Short openers: holes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 can be holed in one with the right pace.

Water comes into play on holes 14 and 18. The bridge on hole 18 has no rails — line it up square and use less power than you think. Slopes tilt the track on holes 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 17. Corner banks on holes 2, 6, 11, 12, 14, 15 and 16 let a medium-paced ball turn the corner by itself. On holes 2, 3, 13 and 16 the cup sits in a bowl that gathers a slow ball. On holes 5, 11, 15, 17 and 18 the cup is perched on a hill that sheds a slow ball — come in dead straight and a touch firmer. Blocks stand in the middle of a room on holes 8, 15, 16, 17 and 18; pick a side early. A fence with a narrow gap crosses the track on hole 13.

How to play it

• On a bridge without rails, the putt that matters is the one before it: get the ball into the middle of the room, square to the bridge, and the crossing becomes a straight putt.
• On a hill hole, a putt that stops short rolls back to you. Better to be slightly long and straight than delicate.
• Treat each slope like a stream: aim upstream of the line you want and let the slope bring the ball down to it.
• Send the ball into a corner bank at medium pace. Too hard and it rattles back across the room; too soft and it dies on the bank.
• Use Hint when you are stuck: it shows a good line from where the ball lies, the same line the computer would choose.

Scorecard