The first of only two short holes on the course, this can play as much as a 5-iron into an easterly breeze or a 9-iron down the prevailing wind. The largely flat green lies beyond a low ridge that has a bunker carved into its face.

By Keith Mackie, golf historian and writer from a well-established golfing family in St. Andrews.

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The Old Course at St Andrews
St Andrews, Scotland
7,279 yards / Par 72