Mini golf course #2713

Play course #2713

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 #2713 plays to a par of 47 over eighteen holes and 72 rooms of track — about 79 metres end to end. It sits in the middle of the set: nothing extreme, but enough slopes and turns to need a plan on most holes. The two nines are balanced: par 23 out and par 24 in.

The longest hole is hole 13, with 6 rooms and 2 turns. No hole is longer than par 3, so a good round here is mostly about holing the second putt. Short openers: holes 1, 3 and 4 can be holed in one with the right pace.

Water comes into play on holes 5, 11, 16 and 18. Every bridge on this course has rails, which forgives a slightly crooked putt. Slopes tilt the track on holes 3, 13, 15 and 17. Corner banks on holes 6, 12, 14, 16 and 17 let a medium-paced ball turn the corner by itself. On holes 1, 2, 4, 7 and 10 the cup sits in a bowl that gathers a slow ball. On holes 8 and 14 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 5, 10, 13 and 18; pick a side early. Fences with a narrow gap cross the track on holes 8 and 9.

How to play it

• 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.
• At a fence, play to the gap from straight on; a ball coming in at an angle catches the post on the edge of the gap.
• Use Hint when you are stuck: it shows a good line from where the ball lies, the same line the computer would choose.

Scorecard