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Hole 1

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From The Tee Have you fired up your iron play and greased your short game on our beautiful new range?

From The Fairway

On The Green If not, prepare for a bogey or worse at this perilous wee opener. Four bunkers short, left, right and long protect the green like eager sentries. Oh, and anything long and left gets wet too. Par means you can spring onto the second with confidence.

Hole 2

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From The Tee A birdie chance for longer hitters – but only if they’re wise. Foolhardy play and you’ll need both hands to count your score.

From The Fairway

On The Green The hole doglegs sharply left to right, so keep your drive left of centre, or arrow straight between the trees left and right. Unless you have Dustin’s coil, anything right tempts danger and a lost ball. Your second shot requires sound plotting too, as there’s a lovely/horrible wee burn about 100 yards fromthe green. Two good shots should leave a short pitch home. On this large, raised, undulating

Hole 3

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From The Tee Downhill drive, uphill approach. The ominous white stakes of out-of-boundsville await anything too far right. The wind is often left-to-right –

From The Fairway only too happy to sweep a pathetic fade or slice off the course. But the fairway is plentiful and welcoming. A good drive sets up a short’ish iron into a large green.

On The Green You won’t be able to see the bottom of the pin, so club up and make sure your approach surmounts the mini-valley at the green’s front. But too long to a back pin, and you’ll need Seve’s touch to get up and down.

Hole 4

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From The Tee If you start to enjoy the stunning views of the Campsie Hills too much here, then you’re staring at bogey or worse.

From The Fairway

On The Green Good course management on this short par four presents ample chance of birdie. Long hitters may fancy getting close to the green, but anything faded will be gathered by the wind and sent into the trees or neighbourhood gardens. Take a 3 wood or long iron down the left-middle, leaving a wedge into a generous target. Go long with your approach and you’ll be reaching for the Hamlets.

Hole 5

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From The Tee Par here is always a good score. The tee is protected by surrounding forestry, so you won’t feel the wind which is likely to be stiff into your face off the left. Club up –

From The Fairway

On The Green depending on wind strength you will most likely need something long in your hand. Aim for the left of a large green, although coming up short presents a straightforward up and down.

Hole 6

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From The Tee A good tee shot sets up a decent birdie chance. Aim for the left centre of

From The Fairway the fairway to shorten the hole. Bunkers and trees await anything straying too far rightwards,

On The Green and don’t even think about going hard left. Bunkers also await any errant approach, but the green is large and flat.

Hole 7

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From The Tee This hole is damn tough. It demands a long, straight drive to bisect the glaring trees on left and right.

From The Fairway A burn across the fairway is just desserts for a duffed drive and the wind is often heaving directly into your worried face. Take plenty of club with your uphill approach. Anything beyond the pin leaves a treacherous downhill putt. Four blows at this hole is never shabby.

On The Green

Hole 8

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From The Tee This is where Crow Wood can look like Sawgrass. A short par four, but the green is a virtual island, protected by a large moat of magnetic water.

From The Fairway A large downhill fairway means you can really open the shoulders from the tee. A decent drive leaves a short approach. Right-centre is usually best if you’re in attack mode.

On The Green The green is large, but the water hazard might leave the mentally weak with sweaty palms. Ignore the water, take dead aim at the pin, and play for birdie!

Hole 9

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From The Tee Another short’ish par four to end the outward nine.

From The Fairway The fairway is as wide as the Grand Canyon, and you’re encouraged to keep your ball on the right half. But too far right risks heavy rough or O-B, and trees will punish snap hooks. Your approach will be uphill and invariably into the wind, so don’t dodge morning porridge. The putting surface is big enough, but anything too long means a difficult up and down.

On The Green

Hole 10

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From The Tee Another great birdie chance. Keep the tee shot straight or you’ll crash into overhanging branches and end up in hostile jungle territory.

From The Fairway

On The Green If you’ve Rory’s shoulder turn, you can make the green, otherwise, a decent tee shot leaves you with a short second. Keep that approach below the pin as the green slopes towards you. A downhill putt on this green tests the steeliest nerve.

Hole 11

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From The Tee The back nine starts to toughen up here. A straightforward drive over the hill, to a wide fairway, but don’t hold back or you’ll have a long uphill second to a small target.

From The Fairway

On The Green You’ll most likely have to wallop your second towards a tiny green gateway, protected on each side with deadly sand traps. Par or better permits a private smirk and a jaunty walk to twelve.

Hole 12

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From The Tee A terrific risk/reward hole. From the back tees, and if you have Tiger’s deltoids,

From The Fairway

On The Green go for the green, and an eagle chance. The more conservative golfer can play anything from a wood to a niblick down the hill, leaving a simple pitch to the putting surface. Beware of the burn and two sandy craters awaiting anything short. Go for birdie here. You may need it as you consider thirteen…

Hole 13

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From The Tee Crow Wood’s signature hole. Its majesty can be overlooked though, because one bad turn and things get ugly.

From The Fairway Aim between the line of bushes up the left and the large beautiful tree on the right centre of the fairway.

On The Green Don’t be fooled by this tree’s beauty: smack its limbs and finding the green in regulation becomes fantasy. Anything further right is fine, but makes an already long hole even longer, as it doglegs left. You need to be long from the tee but don’t swing too hard: anything too far left is gone forever, and you’ll be reloading. Take plenty of club with your approach to a raised, generous, green, but

Hole 14

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From The Tee NO-Body wants to see a promising medal card torn up here, but, just like the 13th, if you pull or hook from the tee, then you are out of luck and out of bounds.

From The Fairway

On The Green Watch for the bunker on the left which will snare any mild draw. But there’s plenty of room up the right, and a reasonable drive will leave a shortish second. When you pitch in, avoid the huge bunker protecting the right and front, and don’t go long or you’re in another jungle. But the green is plenty big.

Hole 15

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From The Tee It looks a small target from the tee,

From The Fairway

On The Green but the green is actually pretty huge. A mid-short iron should be enough — although from the back tees it’s different gravy. Give it plenty welly and keep it straight. A trio of bunkers, in a trio of unhelpful spots, are there to spoil your enjoyment.

Hole 16

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From The Tee A definite birdie chance here. Keep your tee shot right and it will bound down off the hill, leaving a short pitch in to the green

From The Fairway

On The Green . Anything too far left will be in water, or will leave your approach O-Bscured by trees. Big hitters can attempt the green, but watch for the burn guarding the front. The green’s fortress is in the shape of several pot bunkers. Leave your pitch below the hole or your downhill birdie chance may descend to gruesome bogey.

Hole 17

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From The Tee This is a very challenging par four – especially so if the winds in the mood.

From The Fairway There’s no real danger from the tee, unless you sclaff hopelessly into the burn – although some sparse, small trees lie in wait for anything lightly faded. But your approach can be anything from a short iron to a wooden club depending on wind and gym dedication.

On The Green The green is large but uphill, so take one more than you think, and give it a proper swat. If you err left or right, you’re in the sand. Par is good.

Hole 18

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From The Tee A vintage hole offering the chance of damnation OR redemption. A decent drive anywhere but pulled left sets you up perfectly.

From The Fairway A duck hook will end up in the member’s car park, embittering the post-round drink. If you hit it far, you can make the green in two as long as you avoid the gorgeous tree dominating the fairway’s left side.

On The Green Lesser mortals should get home with two shots and a shortish iron. The green is flat and kind. Whatever you do, do don’t go long, or you’ll need Jordan’s short-game to save face. Putt out, hit the clubhouse bar and haste ye back!