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Course Design Tips
Get ready to get creative! You can play these holes on carpet or mix things up with the official Fingagolf tee box, green, and fairway playmats. Want to take your course design to the next level? A small folding table is a game-changer—it lets you switch up tee box (starting point) placements in a flash!
The golden rule? There are NO rules! Use anything and everything around the house to create epic holes—dodge pot plants, weave through furniture, and challenge your skills with some well-placed (non-precious!) ornaments. The wackier, the better!
Now go forth and design your ultimate Fingagolf course!
Suggested Course Layouts
- 3 Hole Challenge – Quick setup – perfect for getting lots of players on the leaderboard.
- 9 Hole Par 3 Course – Tribute to the great Par 3s from around the world
3 Hole Challenge
This is a great introduction to a round of Fingagolf. It requires limited space (around 8 sqm) and only uses one set of tee box, fairway and green playmats.
We have used variations on this simple setup at the British Golf Show, the UK Games Expo, The Michigan Golf Show and the Northeast Golf Show and in just 3 holes the drama that can be generated is amazing.
Keep the fairway mat on a table and move the tee box on a small table to the different tee positions. There are many ways to set up the third hole to make it a drivable Par 4 but having a separate table making an island green leads to some nerve wracking pitch shots.
9 Hole Par 3 Course
Inspired by some of the great Par 3s from around the world we’ve put together a 9 hole course with a variety of distances, angles and elevation changes so that you can imagine hitting some of the most famous tee shots in golf.
And here’s a little more flavour about the holes that inspired this layout.
Hole 1: The Postage Stamp – 8th at Royal Troon – Scotland
The smallness of the putting surface accounted for the current name when William Park writing in “Golf Illustrated” said, ” A pitching surface skimmed down to the size of a Postage Stamp”.
There is no safe way to play this hole, the ball must find the green with the tee-shot. Many top players have come to grief at this the shortest hole in Open Championship golf.
Hole 2: Ord – 2nd at Royal Dornoch – Scotland
Multiple Majors winner Tom Watson famously remarked the toughest shot in golf was the second to the second green on the Championship Course, given the degree of difficulty in finding, and staying on, that putting surface, which measures 184 yards off the blue tees.
Hole 3: Golden Bell – 12th at Augusta – Georgia
The 12th hole has been a heartbreaker from the start. Its fickle winds, narrow green and looming water have thwarted many runs for the Masters title.
Hole 4: Red Mountain Drop – 17th at Red Mountain – Phuket
The 17th hole at Red Mountain Golf Club in Phuket, Thailand measures 150 yards but plays like 110!
A stunning vista dropping down over 40 yards reveals itself after you drive out through the jungle. If you’re in the area and short of a playing partner message Glyn@fingagolf.com and I’d be more than happy to play this course again and again!
Hole 5: Green Mile – 17th at Quail Hollow – North Carolina
Quail Hollow’s last 3 holes are known as “The Green Mile,” named after the film/book, the scenic trio composes as difficult a finale one will find on Tour and includes one of the most dangerous holes at the signature par-3 17th.
Hole 6: The Coliseum – 16th at Scottsdale – Arizona
Home of the Phoenix open and arguably best remembered for Harry Higgs and Joel Dahmen taking their shirts off before the hole was drowned in thrown beer cans. It is the only fully enclosed golf hole on the PGA tour – effectively a 20,000 seater stadium for one golf hole.
Hole 7: 7th Heaven – 7th at Pebble Beach – California
“The seventh is a little gem of a mashie shot, only 106 yards and a drop of 40 feet from tee to green,” Co-Designer Jack Neville wrote in 1917. “The latter is surrounded on three sides by the bay. There is usually a little wind blowing on this point, which gives it every natural hazard to the golfer, making this hole one of the most interesting on the links.”
Hole 8: Island Green – 17th at TPC Sawgrass – Florida
“It is like having a 3 o’clock appointment for a root canal. You’re thinking about it all morning and you feel bad all day. You kind of know sooner or later you’ve got to get to it.” Mark Calcavecchia.
This hole divides opinion among players, one thing is for sure it is a dramatic penultimate hole.
Hole 9: Don’t Go Left! – 16th at Muirfield Village – Ohio
The 16th hole at Muirfield Village Golf Club, has been a point of contention, with Jack Nicklaus redesigning it in 2011 and again in 2023 after receiving criticism from players, particularly for its challenging nature and the impact of wind conditions. Too tough? You be the judge!
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