Claudia Laurent
Golf writer, Golf Handicapp · 12 August 2026
Twenty odd bunkers and one small green, 147 yards away across clean links turf, with the sun going down behind it. The instinct is to aim straight at the flag. The percentage play is the fat side, away from the pin, because the gap between finishing thirty feet left and finishing three feet under a revetted face is the gap between a two putt and a wedge played backwards. A hole like this does not punish bad strikes. It punishes good ones aimed at the wrong target.
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 12 August 2026.
