Today’s Golfer UK — December 2017

here are some incredible par-3s on

the west coast of North America.

Pebble Beach has one. So does

Cypress Point. But a new course in Mexico

has a short hole to rival anything in the world

in terms of spectacular drama. This

seemingly tiny sliver of green on top of a

Pacific Ocean clifftop is the par-3 17th at the

new Dazante Bay GC, a 7,100-yard Rees

Jones layout on the Baja Peninsula, about

1100 miles south of LA. From the tips it plays

about 180; it’s shorter from the daily tees,

which are set at a different angle to open up

the green. Fortunately, it’s not quite as scary

as it looks from the tee, with a horseshoe-

shaped bunker on three sides stopping errant

balls dropping 250 feet into the Sea of Cortez.

Even so, Jones predicts: “I have no doubt that

No.17 will be one of the best par 3s in the

world.” Looking at these pictures, we’re not

going to argue.

World’s most spectacular par 3?

FIRST LOOK

We’ve never seen a short hole quite as dramatic as this new one in Mexico

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