https://pinhighpress.com/tags/nine-holes/ Recent content in Nine Holes on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/in-defence-of-nine-holes/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/in-defence-of-nine-holes/ <p>There is a particular look a certain kind of golfer gives you when you tell them you only played nine. It is somewhere between sympathy and suspicion, as though you had admitted to leaving a film halfway through or reading only the first half of a book. The unspoken assumption is that nine holes is golf for people who could not manage the real thing, a consolation round, a half-measure. I have come to think this is one of the more damaging ideas the game carries around with it, and that the people who hold it have forgotten where the number eighteen came from in the first place.</p>