Mini golf course #2780

Play course #2780

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 #2780 plays to a par of 46 over eighteen holes and 65 rooms of track — about 72 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 19 out, but par 27 on the way in.

The longest hole is hole 18, with 6 rooms and 3 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 13 and 17. The bridges on holes 13 and 17 have no rails — line them up square and use less power than you think. Slopes tilt the track on holes 1, 4, 8, 11, 12 and 14. Corner banks on holes 3, 5, 9, 14, 15, 16 and 18 let a medium-paced ball turn the corner by itself. On holes 5 and 6 the cup sits in a bowl that gathers a slow ball. Blocks stand in the middle of a room on holes 6, 17 and 18; pick a side early. Fences with a narrow gap cross the track on holes 10, 12, 13 and 16.

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.
• 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