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Had a great and unexpected meeting with a golf course this week that we put a 9 hole beginners course on last year on their pitch and putt.
The meeting was supposed to be about finalising a temporary course on their main 9 hole par 64 golf course for a one off tournament. It escalated quickly into the soft opening of a brand new course (I love the owner, easiest person I've ever had to deal with in any form of business!)
Having a number of property design limitations has led to a par 68, 3300 meter, 10800'ish tee to basket layout, aimed at about 980 rated to par. Not something I was intending at all, my temporary course was going to be about half this size, playing 18 holes once round the 9 hole golf course. However apart from two holes which are a bit of a slog (4/13 playing down their straightish par 5) The rest are all really fun challenging holes testing a huge range of shots from tee and fairway. only things it misses are elevation (it's in the Norfolk fenlands, as flat as you could possibly imagine!) and some heavily wooded holes although there is scope for that in future if this layout takes off.
Doing a quick idiots search on the courses here though doesn't seem to show many other courses at all in this range of length. Am I missing something in the search criteria or have I inadvertently created one of the longest course layouts in the world?
The meeting was supposed to be about finalising a temporary course on their main 9 hole par 64 golf course for a one off tournament. It escalated quickly into the soft opening of a brand new course (I love the owner, easiest person I've ever had to deal with in any form of business!)
Having a number of property design limitations has led to a par 68, 3300 meter, 10800'ish tee to basket layout, aimed at about 980 rated to par. Not something I was intending at all, my temporary course was going to be about half this size, playing 18 holes once round the 9 hole golf course. However apart from two holes which are a bit of a slog (4/13 playing down their straightish par 5) The rest are all really fun challenging holes testing a huge range of shots from tee and fairway. only things it misses are elevation (it's in the Norfolk fenlands, as flat as you could possibly imagine!) and some heavily wooded holes although there is scope for that in future if this layout takes off.
Doing a quick idiots search on the courses here though doesn't seem to show many other courses at all in this range of length. Am I missing something in the search criteria or have I inadvertently created one of the longest course layouts in the world?