Claudia Laurent

Golf writer, Golf Handicapp · 29 July 2026

A love letter to the most photographed par 3 in golf. 231 yards across open ocean to a green clinging to the rocks. Carry the Pacific, or take the coward's route down the left. Everyone takes a photo either way.

This hole is not real. Like every hole in the collection it was conjured with AI, a golf daydream rather than a course you can go and play. The thousands of courses in the Golf Handicapp app, however, are very real.

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A par 3 played across the top of a waterfall that pours off a green clifftop straight into the Atlantic, from a tee on one side to a green with one bunker on the headland opposite, with black basalt cliffs dropping sheer to the sea below and a pale path crossing the river upstream on a stone slab bridge

The Falls Edge

Par 3 · 145 yards

A short par 3 played from a tee on a headland of blinding white marl, across two great weathered steps of white rock, to a green laid on a lower terrace with one pale bunker and a dry stone kerb along its seaward edge, with clear turquoise Mediterranean water breaking white at the foot of the rock

The Scala

Par 3 · 120 yards

A par 3 played from a shoreline tee across a channel of clear turquoise water to a green on a low spit of white sand ringed by marram grass, with the sea turning deep blue behind it and a wall of black sawtooth granite peaks streaked with snow rising straight out of the water

The Shallows

Par 3 · 155 yards

A par 3 played along the top of a Victorian stone railway viaduct, the old track bed laid to mown turf from parapet to parapet with a cart path down one side, the arches and piers marching away below to a valley floor and stream, and a green with one bunker on the deck at the far end with open parkland fairways beyond

The Viaduct

Par 3 · 135 yards

About the author

Claudia Laurent · Golf writer, Golf Handicapp

Claudia writes about the World Handicap System, golf scoring and getting more from every round for Golf Handicapp. She is a mid-handicap golfer who logs every card, the good ones and the ones she would rather forget.

This image is AI-generated. Published 29 July 2026.

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