Claudia Laurent
Golf writer, Golf Handicapp · 30 July 2026
196 yards over a jungle ravine to a green benched onto a hand-stacked stone wall, with the fluted green mountains rising straight up behind. Pure Hawaii. Flush it and you are a hero, thin it and you are somewhere in the rainforest, apologising to the wildlife.
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.
This one is make-believe. The thousands of courses in the app are not.
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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 30 July 2026.
