The course committee has met and November's courses have been unveilled

The men in suits have also made some changes to course set up - slowing down the greens a touch, and working to make the cups a bit more receptive to putts after player feedback about the number of vicious lipouts.

There's lots of fun (and frustration) in store as all three courses allow players to utilise the ground game - make sure you study the contours before pulling the trigger. We're particularly looking forwrad to seeing the scoring at Mammouth Dunes...

Kauri Cliffs

Kauri Cliffs is New Zealand’s clifftop masterpiece. Designed by David Harman and opened in 2000, it rolls across coastal farmland with 15 holes overlooking the Pacific. We’re playing from the white tees at 6,600 yards, with normal firmness to keep things fair but - still fast enough to show off the contours. Accuracy will be rewarded — stray too far and you’ll find some properly scary spots waiting beyond the fairway.

Mammoth Dunes

Mammoth Dunes is David McLay Kidd’s bold, exuberant take on modern fun-first golf. Opened in 2018, it sprawls across vast, rumpled sand barrens with huge fairways, enormous greens, and contours so expressive they feel sculpted by nature herself. For our setup, we’re playing it short — just 6,000 yards — but firm as a links, the rock-hard surfaces turning every slope, bank, and backboard into a playground for creativity. The greens are stimping at 8, so we’re expecting maximum fun and plenty of low scores. It’s golf at its most liberating.

Shinnecock Hills

Shinnecock Hills needs no introduction — it’s pure, historic, championship golf carved into the sandy ridges of Long Island. One of the world’s great tests of control and imagination, it rewards precision and punishes arrogance in equal measure. We’re playing from the green tees at 6,200 yards, with Sunday pins and medium-firm greens — true and testing without being brutal. The setup should bring out Shinnecock’s best.

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