Hole 18 - The Hooker’s Graveyard, Par 5, 537 yards/491 metres
Ian Woosnam: This often plays into the wind, it is uphill and it never ceases to deliver excitement - one way or another! Go down the right hand side and you need to carry the three new bunkers the first of which is 300 yards out. Go down the left and, although further from the green, the shot is a touch easier. Then for the approach there is water to the left and in front of the green and a cluster of bunkers to the right. If the pin is front left on this right to left sloping green then that only adds to the tension. If you've bailed out into those bunkers right then the recovery towards the water is fraught with danger.
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Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland Palmer Course: 7335 Yards / Par 72 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | OUT |
| 418 | 413 | 170 | 568 | 440 | 478 | 430 | 173 | 461 | 3551 |
| 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 35 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | IN |
| 584 | 415 | 182 | 428 | 213 | 446 | 555 | 424 | 537 | 3784 |
| 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 37 |
| *Distance shown in yards. | |||||||||
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