Pine Valley (Short)

The opening hole on the Short Course replicated the famous 10th at Pine Valley, complete with mini Devil's Asshole!

The approach to the main course's 13th hole is recreated as the 7th hole of the Short Course

The best is saved for last - it's uncanny how similar this recreation is to the actual approach to the 2nd green 

Course name: Pine Valley (Short)
Location: Clementon, New Jersey
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What does a club do when it already has the best greatest golf course in the world and a hundred acres to spare? Build a few of the best holes again!

There was never any point in Pine Valley Golf Club supplementing its World #1 course with another 18-holer, but this 10-hole course is the perfect way to prepare for, or relax after, your lap around the main course.

Pine Valley's Short Course is a genius concept - take some of the best shots from the finest golf course in the world and replicate in a condensed series.

It gives you one more chance to tackle the approach shots to the 2nd, 13th ,16th, 17th, three of the par threes (3, 10, 14) and the final two-thirds of the most difficult hole I've ever come across: the par five 15th.

What's more, approaching the greens that replicate par fours and fives is done from the same awkward lies you find on the big course and without the use of a tee.

As well as those facsimile holes, the 4th and 9th holes are originals by course creators Ernie Ransome and Tom Fazio.

As a further benefit to the club, the Short Course provides an opportunity for new or different greenkeeping practices to be carried out on "in play" holes within the same environment without taking risks on Crump and Colt's masterpiece.