{"id":7176,"date":"2015-08-10T07:55:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T11:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/?p=7176"},"modified":"2020-06-06T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T15:00:10","slug":"would-you-play-a-12-hole-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/would-you-play-a-12-hole-golf-course.html","title":{"rendered":"Would you Play a 12-Hole Golf Course?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7177\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/100_0410.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7177\" src=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/100_0410-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"Can 12-hole courses save golf? (photo by Greg D'Andrea)\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/100_0410-300x235.jpg 300w, http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/100_0410-1024x801.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/100_0410-600x469.jpg 600w, http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/100_0410.jpg 1486w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can 12-hole courses save golf? (photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/gregdandrea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg D&#8217;Andrea<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A 12-hole golf course? Yep, they do indeed exist. And more might be on the way.&nbsp;Jack Nicklaus originally proposed 12-hole courses&nbsp;back in 2007, but he was largely ignored.<\/p>\n<p>He brought it up again in 2011 as a way to save golf, which he pointed-out was struggling to engage the younger generation. This time, he wasn&#8217;t ignored, but rather criticized. You see,&nbsp;Mr. Nicklaus&nbsp;had recently built a&nbsp;12-hole golf course and many accused him of just trying to boost his business.<\/p>\n<p>But over the past few years, the golf industry has indeed&nbsp;grappled&nbsp;with ways&nbsp;to attract&nbsp;Millennials. And it&#8217;s no secret the game loses participation (from both potential&nbsp;and current&nbsp;golfers alike) because&nbsp;it&nbsp;takes&nbsp;far too long to complete&nbsp;a round &#8211; in some cases pushing towards 6-hours for&nbsp;18-holes (especially on public tracks).<\/p>\n<p>To combat this, the USGA launched&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usga.org\/play-9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a dedicated initiative<\/a>&nbsp;to encourage more 9-hole rounds (our friend Stacy over at <a href=\"http:\/\/golf-for-beginners.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/how-often-do-you-play-nine-holes-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Golf for Beginners<\/a> touched on this last week).&nbsp;But let&#8217;s face it, as long as it takes to play 18-holes, playing only 9 just&nbsp;doesn&#8217;t seem like enough. I guess those of us on a time-crunch could frequent more&nbsp;par 3 or executive courses, but shortening the length of the holes and subsequently not being able to hit your driver? To me, that&nbsp;really changes the game.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, what golf needs is a course with less-than-18, but more than 9 full-sized holes &#8211; including par 5&#8217;s.&nbsp;Thus the 12-hole (or even 14-hole) golf course might be just right. First off, greens fees would come down since there&#8217;s less course to maintain. And with less holes,&nbsp;walking courses would&nbsp;become more prevalent too. How many times have you become&nbsp;fatigued over&nbsp;the last few holes while walking 18? Well, that won&#8217;t be an issue if you&#8217;re only playing 12.<\/p>\n<p>And it stands to reason if you cut the number of holes by a third, it should take only two-thirds of the time to complete a round. So if it typically takes you 5 hours to play 18-holes, it should take just under 3.5 hours to play 12. This is a much more manageable timeframe and it fits much better into a busy weekend schedule. And if you&nbsp;only have 90 minutes or so, just play the front (or back) 6!<\/p>\n<p>But what about the handicap system on a course with less than 18-holes? Well, that can be adjusted fairly easily according to the USGA, which has stated they &#8220;would consider rating 12-hole courses in the near future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the issue?<\/p>\n<p>It appears the biggest hurdle is the mindset of current golfers and golf course managers. &#8220;But par is only 48!&#8221; We golfers have a hard-time considering anything but the traditional 18-holes. In my opinion, it&#8217;s this kind of stubbornness that is holding the&nbsp;game back. We&nbsp;need to be reminded that 18-holes is a relatively recent (last century or so) standard number of holes a course has. In the past, courses have featured 5, 7, 12 and even 22 holes!<\/p>\n<p>And likewise, you can put&nbsp;golf&nbsp;course managers in the same boat. When a course is&nbsp;about to fold, most managers don&#8217;t even consider selling-off acreage and creating a 12-hole (or even 9-hole) layout. They simply take the loss and close their doors.<\/p>\n<p>Yet&nbsp;on the whole, it appears 12-hole courses would be good for golf &#8211; not only helping the industry economically, but also helping with participation from new and current golfers&nbsp;alike. Now if we can only get folks&nbsp;to start thinking outside the box, we might just be able to make golf a better game for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to throw in your two cents in the comments &#8211; I would love to hear your opinion, either for or against a 12-hole golf course.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-hole golf course? Yep, they do indeed exist. And more might be on the way.&nbsp;Jack Nicklaus originally proposed 12-hole courses&nbsp;back in 2007, but he was largely ignored. He brought it up again in 2011 as a way to save golf, which he pointed-out was struggling to engage the younger generation. 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