Location: Atlantis, Golden Tower
Depth: 470
Depth: 470
Each named hole in the course clues a word beginning with PAR.
| Hole 1: Absolved | PARDONED |
| Hole 2: Pilcrow | PARAGRAPH |
| Hole 3: Story | PARABLE |
| Hole 4: Transfixed | PARALYZED |
| Hole 5: Cheese | PARMESAN |
| Hole 6: Suspicious | PARANOID |
| Hole 7: Spouse | PARTNER |
| Hole 8: Dolly | PARTON |
| Hole 9: Mosaic | PARQUET |
| Hole 10: Frenchman | PARISIAN |
| Hole 11: Reword | PARAPHRASE |
| Hole 12: Viewpoint | PARADIGM |
| Hole 13: Incompletely | PARTIALLY |
| Hole 14: Game | PARCHEESI |
| Hole 15: Budgerigar | PARAKEET |
| Hole 16: Package | PARCEL |
| Hole 17: Eden | PARADISE |
| Hole 18: Garnish | PARSLEY |
Thus, the "par" for Hole 1 is the set of letters in DONED, and so forth. For each hole, there is one scorecard answer that is either an anagram+1 (bogey) or an anagram-1 (birdie) of that hole's par. For instance, BELAY is a bogey for Hole 3, which has a PAR of ABLE, whereas DELAY is a birdie for Hole 4, which as a PAR of ALYZED.
| Stop Bartok? Yes (bogey) | BELAY (BELA + Y) | PARABLE |
| Game of wits that is a bay-dwelling sea serpent (bogey) | CHESSIE (CHESS + IE) | PARCHEESI |
| Ivy League university? Back down first, don't rush (birdie) | DELAY (D + the reverse of YALE) | PARALYZED |
| Mr. Gray's mode (bogey) | DORIAN (double definition) | PARANOID |
| Source of courier, perhaps (bogey) | FONT (double definition) | PARTON |
| Chart depicting Raphael's innards (birdie) | GRAPH (depictinG RAPHael's) | PARAGRAPH |
| Middleman evenly spelling out concept (birdie) | IDEA (even letters of mIdDlEmAn) | PARADISE |
| Fabric from site with no western border (bogey) | LACE (PLACE - P) | PARCEL |
| Sages captured by imagination (birdie) | MAGI (iMAGInation) | PARADIGM |
| Neruda's first words of praise for vertex (birdie) | NODE (N + ODE) | PARDONED |
| Growin' dried fruit (bogey) | RAISIN (double definition) | PARISIAN |
| Sailors notice outspoken soldiers (bogey) | SEAMEN (SEE phonetically + MEN) | PARMESAN |
| Angel playing harps around end of Rapture (birdie) | SERAPH (anagram of HARPS with an E inside) | PARAPHRASE |
| In the end, obviously clever (birdie) | SLY (obviouSLY) | PARSLEY |
| Score penned by sentimental lyricist (birdie) | TALLY (sentimenTAL LYricist) | PARTIALLY |
| Take splintered wood (birdie) | TEAK (anagram of TAKE) | PARAKEET |
| Male singer's meaning (bogey) | TENOR (double definition) | PARTNER |
| Force to remove right hat (bogey) | TOQUE (TORQUE - R) | PARQUET |
When the holes and answers are paired up, each hole is associated with one added/removed letter. Write these letters, in hole order, over the blanks at the bottom of the puzzle to spell out "DAY ZERO FOR A DISEASE (4)", a cryptic clue for MONO (MON + O), which is the answer.