Links: Top Short Course Openings for 2021
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Not too long ago the headline above might have sounded almost April 1 worthy given the game’s infatuation with 7000-72 courses.
Mercifully tastes are changing but I still never imagined this one: a list of the “Top Short Course Openings for 2021”.
Erik Matuszewski presents ten of this year’s most anticipated alternative offerings all over the globe. This one looks and sounds the most intriguing, a fitting addition to one of the world’s great places in very little time.
It was only a couple decades ago that Barnbougle Dunes was just a strip of land alongside a potato farm on Tasmania’s northeast coast. Today, it’s one of the most celebrated destinations in golf, not just Australia. In 2010, Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw opened the 20-hole Lost Farm course to complement the original layout and their team, along with Winter Park 9 visionary Riley Johns, is putting the finishing touches on a 14-hole short course built into a ridge of sand dunes near Lost Farm that will have mostly par threes along with a couple of drivable par fours.
A teaser video of the Barnbougle course:
