Play course #2745
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 #2745 plays to a par of 46 over eighteen holes and 73 rooms of track — about 80 metres end to end. It is one of the gentler courses in the set: short holes, room to recover and few places to lose a stroke. The back nine is where the course bites: par 20 out, but par 26 on the way in.
The longest hole is hole 11, with 6 rooms and 3 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, 4 and 6 can be holed in one with the right pace.
Water comes into play on holes 7 and 12. The bridge on hole 12 has no rails — line it up square and use less power than you think. Slopes tilt the track on holes 1, 2, 4, 5 and 13. Corner banks on holes 3, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16 and 18 let a medium-paced ball turn the corner by itself. On holes 3, 5, 6, 10, 13, 15, 17 and 18 the cup sits in a bowl that gathers a slow ball. On holes 9, 12 and 16 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 14, 15 and 17; pick a side early. Fences with a narrow gap cross the track on holes 8, 11 and 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
| Hole | Par | Rooms | On the hole |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | slope |
| 2 | 2 | 3 | slope, posts |
| 3 | 2 | 3 | corner bank, posts, bowl |
| 4 | 2 | 3 | slope, posts |
| 5 | 3 | 4 | slope, posts, bowl |
| 6 | 2 | 4 | corner bank, posts, bowl |
| 7 | 2 | 3 | water |
| 8 | 3 | 4 | fence, posts |
| 9 | 2 | 4 | corner bank, posts, hill |
| Out | 20 | 30 | |
| 10 | 3 | 4 | posts, bowl |
| 11 | 3 | 6 | corner bank, fence, posts |
| 12 | 3 | 4 | water, bridge without rails, corner bank, posts, hill |
| 13 | 3 | 6 | slope, corner bank, bowl |
| 14 | 3 | 6 | fence, block |
| 15 | 3 | 4 | corner bank, block, posts, bowl |
| 16 | 3 | 5 | corner bank, posts, hill |
| 17 | 3 | 4 | block, posts, bowl |
| 18 | 2 | 4 | corner bank, posts, bowl |
| In | 26 | 43 | |
| Total | 46 | 73 |