EIGHTEENTH

Mens Par 4 Ladies Par 4

Don't miss this green on the right either! The shot back is just as difficult as on the seventeenth but this time has to be played in full view of the clubhouse windows and those waiting to tee off on the first. The drive is aimed down the right hand side of the fairway in order that the approach can be played into the heart of the green. The traditional advice is to play towards the clubhouse clock with the second shot but if the ball stays on this line it will miss on the left, leaving a nasty chip onto a falling green with every prospect of ending up down the slope on the right, which one was trying to avoid in the first place! Watch for holiday makers occasionally crossing the hole. Green lights show all clear.

A measure of how difficult these last two holes can play, particularly under championship conditions, was provided at the climax to the Brabazon Trophy in 1980. Peter McEvoy, one of the world's finest amateur golfers and fresh from a visit to Augusta, contrived to finish six, six and leave himself tied for the championship with Ronan Rafferty, the sixteen year old British Boys Champion. Earlier in the day, Rafferty, in his third round, had taken eight at the seventeenth. The wind was apparently helping! Honours even, the Trophy was shared, each retaining it for six months.