Claudia Laurent
Golf writer, Golf Handicapp · 4 October 2026
125 yards along a shelf of wet black bedrock, with the front of a glacier standing two hundred feet high across the water behind the green. The ice wall runs the full width of the view, deep blue in its fractures and dirty white on its face, and every so often a slab the size of a house shears off it and drops into the sea, throwing up a plume of spray and sending a ring of waves out across the water. The sea in front of it is packed with floating blocks. The shelf itself narrows between the tee and the green and the sea washes over the lowest part of it on both sides, so you are walking the route as well as playing it. What makes a hole like this hard has nothing to do with the yardage. Cold dense air carries the ball noticeably less than the same shot would carry in summer, and almost nobody allows enough for it, so the honest answer from 125 is the club you would normally hit 135. The second problem is that there is no scale anywhere to judge against. The green is a small circle of grass in front of an object so large that your eye has nothing to measure it with, and everything looks closer than it is. Pick the number off the card rather than off the view, aim at the middle, and if the ice goes while you are over the ball, step away and start again, because nobody has ever hit a good shot flinching.
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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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 4 October 2026.
