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Short Course
Pine Valley’s Short Course brings shots from the main eighteen into a separate ten-hole course. Designer Tom Fazio worked with Ernie Ransome on ten one-shot holes, each intended to be reached with the first stroke. NJ Golf’s account identifies eight as simulations of approaches into main-course greens, with two original holes.1
Open the Club record- Holes
- 10
- Club location
- Pine Valley New Jersey
Practising Pine Valley’s Approach Shots
Fazio traced the idea to Pine Valley’s second hole. He described wanting to stand in the fairway and hit repeated shots at the pin. The Short Course’s final hole took its inspiration from that uphill approach. Ransome supplied the initial idea of duplicating selected holes, and Fazio developed the design.1
Course design
Sources and record notes3 references
Sources for this history
- Pine Valley Golf Club: the Short Course
NJ Golf
The Short Course section: Fazio and Ransome, ten one-shot holes, eight simulations of main-course approaches and two originals; Fazio explains the second-hole practice idea.
Consulted 2026-10-25
Course record sources
- NJ Golf: separate Pine Valley Short CourseCourse record
- NJ Golf: Pine Valley Golf ClubTom Fazio · Original design · Date unrecorded