The floating green and beyond. Mountain golf in the Idaho panhandle, where five courses span the lakes and forests of a landscape most golfers have never considered.
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The most photographed hole in Idaho golf sits on a barge. The par-3 14th at the Coeur d'Alene Resort Golf Course features a floating green anchored in the lake, reached by a mahogany boat rather than a cart path. It is a spectacle, unapologetically so, and it has drawn golfers to this corner of the Idaho panhandle since 1991. What many of those golfers discover upon arrival is that the floating green, for all its fame, is not the strongest...
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