Mini golf course #2789

Play course #2789

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 #2789 plays to a par of 47 over eighteen holes and 71 rooms of track — about 78 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 two nines are balanced: par 23 out and par 24 in.

The longest hole is hole 12, 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 and 3 can be holed in one with the right pace.

There is no water anywhere on this course, so a firm putt never costs a penalty stroke; walls and slopes are the danger instead. Slopes tilt the track on holes 1, 9, 11, 13 and 14. Corner banks on holes 5, 14 and 17 let a medium-paced ball turn the corner by itself. On holes 4, 14, 16 and 17 the cup sits in a bowl that gathers a slow ball. On holes 8, 9, 12, 13 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 10, 11 and 17; pick a side early. Fences with a narrow gap cross the track on holes 6, 8, 12, 16 and 18.

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