Claudia Laurent
Golf writer, Golf Handicapp · 16 August 2026
444 yards, dead straight, and nowhere to put it. A wide river runs hard down the whole right side, cut in tight against the short grass with no rough to save you, and a broken belt of sand and scrub presses in from the left for the entire length of the hole. Between them the fairway is a ribbon, and it narrows the further you go. Driver brings both sides into play at once. Lay back with an iron and you have left yourself two hundred in, to a green you can barely see. There is no safe side here, only the side you are less afraid of, and the walk up is spent finding out which one you should have picked.
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 16 August 2026.
