Mini golf course #2714

Play course #2714

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 #2714 plays to a par of 45 over eighteen holes and 73 rooms of track — about 80 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 back nine is where the course bites: par 21 out, but par 24 on the way in.

The longest hole is hole 15, with 6 rooms and 4 turns. No hole is longer than par 3, so a good round here is mostly about holing the second putt. Short openers: holes 1, 2, 3 and 4 can be holed in one with the right pace.

Water comes into play on holes 12, 14 and 18. The bridges on holes 14 and 18 have no rails — line them up square and use less power than you think. Slopes tilt the track on holes 2, 6, 9, 10, 11 and 15. Corner banks on holes 4, 7, 11, 12, 15 and 18 let a medium-paced ball turn the corner by itself. On holes 2, 5 and 11 the cup sits in a bowl that gathers a slow ball. On holes 6, 12, 16 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 6 and 16; pick a side early. A fence with a narrow gap crosses the track on hole 14.

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