Floating Golf Course concept

[Ben Stephens]

Hi All,




This is an interesting concept by Waterstudio from Netherlands. A floating golf course in the Maldives.


https://www.waterstudio.nl/projects/floating-golfcourse-maldives/


Hypothetically what hole templates would you use for this course or could it be more fluid in terms of shaping?




Cheers
Ben

[Mike Bodo]

It's an interesting concept. I'll give it that. But I question why or how someone feels there is a need for this? For hole templates, the first course that popped into my mind when I saw the overhead schematic and CGI image on Waterstudio.nl's site of proposed holes was the Ocean Club course at Atlantis in the Bahamas. Not saying that's what should be used as a guide, but that was the first course that came to mind when looking at the above referenced images.


Would I go out of my way to the Maldives to play such a course? I might simply to see how the thing was built and the various land masses connected regardless if the course was stellar from an aesthetic, challenge and playability standpoint.

[Tom_Doak]

Well, the date on it for "realization" was 2013, so . . . I suspect it was never a serious idea, but just an attempt at gaining some free publicity.  At $500m, the golf course would be a pretty big loss leader for the rest of the project . . . maybe they figured they could sell 50 lots at $10m each?


You would think that if Troon Golf actually got paid anything to have a look at this, they should have pointed out that you can't have a golf course routing with two sets of holes playing east-west and one string of holes playing west-east.  It's funny how often one sees stuff like that when land planners sketch out golf course routings.