7 Interesting and Unique Golf Courses ...

By Neecey

7 Interesting and Unique Golf Courses ...

Golf courses are usually great expanses of green and pretty scenery, but if you want to swing your clubs somewhere with a bit of a difference, there are some unique golf courses around the world. Golfing is great fun and isn’t the realm of professionals, wrinklies or the well heeled, and golf vacations are very popular. Naturally, if you’re a player, you want to go somewhere with regular courses, but if you’re up for a challenge and a green with a difference, check out some of the world’s unique golf courses.

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Coeur D’Alene Resort Golf Course

Coeur D’Alene Resort Golf Course What’s this?! A golf course with a hole on a floating island?! The 14th hole of the Coeur d’Alene Resort Golf Course, located in Idaho, features a small putting green on a floating, movable island, which can be controlled by a computer to place it at different distances from the tee. Golfers have two chances to land their balls on their green, after which they take a special boat to get to the island. This completely unique hole makes the otherwise fairly conventional Coeur d’Alene Resort Golf Course one of the most unique golf courses in the world.

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Coober Pedy Opal Fields Golf Club

Coober Pedy Opal Fields Golf Club Located in South Australia, Opal Fields is not your average golf course. You won’t find a single natural blade of grass on this world-famous 18-hole golf course. The entire course is scorching desert, oiled to prevent the pesky dust from getting in the way of golfer’s hitting and putting. Games are played mostly in the cooler temperatures of the night, with glowing balls.

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Pokhara Himalayan Golf Course

Pokhara Himalayan Golf Course Thanks to the natural setting of the Himalayas, this Nepal golf course is probably the most majestic golf course in the world, and certainly one of the most unique golf courses. Located in a pristine valley and straddling a mountain river, this course will quite literally take your breath away.

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Unmmannaq Golf Course, Greenland

Unmmannaq Golf Course, Greenland This is easily one of the most unusual golf courses in the world. Home to the World Ice Golf Championship, this is one course that refuses to conform to the normal conventions. Who needs grass when you have perfectly good ice, and who needs nice golfing weather when you can put your life in danger in sub-50°C temperatures? Possibly the most interesting thing about this course is that it changes every year depending on the position of the various icebergs and fjord ice.

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Stone Harbor Golf Club, New Jersey

Stone Harbor Golf Club, New Jersey Despite the fact that the Clashing Rocks hole at the Stone Harbor Golf Club in New Jersey has since been redesigned, it still deserves a mention because of how weird it was. In the late 1980s, course designer Desmond Muirhead was asked to come up with some unusual golf holes, and he definitely satisfied the criteria. Out of 18 interesting and strange holes that he created, it was the 7th that was the weirdest. The putting green of this hole was made to be an island, with a strange set of bunkers that look like teeth. Because golfers were getting their balls stuck in the teeth, the hole was redesigned.

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Legend Golf and Safari, South Africa

Legend Golf and Safari, South Africa This golf course, located in the 22,000 hectare Entabeni Safari Conservatory in South Africa, is easily one of the most beautiful golf courses in the world. But what makes this one of the most unique golf courses is the 19th hole, which is definitely not for the faint hearted. The teeing ground of this hole is on the top of Hangslip Mountain, and the putting ground is located 500m below the mountain. It’s only a par 3, but you need a helicopter to get up and down from the tee!

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Nullarbor Links, Australia

Nullarbor Links, Australia This golf course is officially the longest course in the world. It stretches over 1,300km along the coast of South Australia, and the average distance between holes is 66km. You’d be lucky to complete this course in under a few weeks. If you fancy a true expedition that lasts a little longer than your average golfing afternoon, this is the course you want to go for.

Are you a golfer? Have you ever played on any of these unique golf courses? Maybe your local club has some unusual features?

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