{"id":25126,"date":"2013-02-12T11:49:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/?p=25126"},"modified":"2019-06-18T12:07:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T11:07:58","slug":"the-toughest-golf-courses-of-this-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/destinations\/the-toughest-golf-courses-of-this-planet.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Toughest Golf Courses of this Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

An exercise in damage limitation- Golf is now a pretty tough task; previously it was a very beautiful sport. You can definitely screw up the next short, no matter how good your last one was. Below are described some of the astonishing and toughest golf courses of this world that will leave majority of us defeated wrecks, blubbering and promising that next time it will surely be better.<\/p>\n

The Ocean Course, Kiawah Island<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

USA<\/a> is one popular destination of this world that has no shortage of dazzling and stunning golf courses of the world, but the Ocean Course is the type of Dye -designed golf course. One of the most torturous\u00a0and difficult one that plenty of all those tourists who grab cheap economy flights.\u00a0The course is the blend of super slick greens, fiendish pot bunkers, thorny marshes and huge sand dunes and is very much capable of being played from more than 7,900 yards. You can have an idea of its toughness from the 1991\u2019s Ryder Cup when even the best players of the world Payne Stewart, Fred Couples, Colin Montgomerie, Nick Faldo and Seve Ballesteros were winning holes with double-bogeys.<\/p>\n

Carnoustie Golf Links, Dundee<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If you are a golf lover and are planning to travel towards Scotland this year than just don\u2019t miss the opportunity to take cheap air tickets\u00a0to Scotland and then head towards the Carnoustie Golf Links. Very famous with the name of “Carnasty”\u00a0, it is laid out in a very close vicinity to the brutal North Sea coast. When the wind whips from the sea, the game can take much longer- it measures 7,421 yards, par-71. The popular phrase the Carnoustie effect\u00a0has actually been taken from this course as it is riddled with fiendish pot bunkers. Seriously a psychic shock is experienced by the players and all the expectations turn into very false assumptions.<\/p>\n

Ko’olau Golf Club, Hawaii<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The paradise of this earth- Hawaii has many other hidden treasures as well- one such ornament is the Ko’olau Golf Club that actually serves as a monster golf course and draws the attention of hundreds of all those golfers who capture cheap plane tickets\u00a0for USA. At first the course received the difficulty rating of 162 but then the USGA headquarters changed it to 155. When a team was sent there for an exact rating, it resulted in a higher rating of 172. The presence of six deep ravines\u00a0, over 80 deep bunkers, and many fairways that are encircled with Hawaiian jungle make it a brute to play and that why according to difficulty and toughness it has been kept on number 3 on the list.<\/p>\n

Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Golf Club, China<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This one belongs to China and is very much popular for being the longest course of this world (the measurement is 8,548 yards). A large number of golfers take budget flights\u00a0to\u00a0China for facing a challenge in this amazing golf course. The Jade Dragon Snow Mountain\u00a0also features a 270-yard par-three, a 525-yard par-four and a 711-yard par-five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An exercise in damage limitation- Golf is now a pretty tough task; previously it was a very beautiful sport. You can definitely screw up the next short, no matter how good<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,4182,4183,22],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-25126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-destinations","tag-china","tag-golf-courses","tag-kiawah-island","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25126"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45131,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25126\/revisions\/45131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25126"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=25126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}