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Hole 1

Hole Name Seal

From The Tee

From The Fairway The second hole requires an accurate drive to avoid the fairway bunkers.

On The Green A hooked tee-shot will find trouble in the bunker to the left, which gathers a right to left shot. The second shot is played with a short to mid-iron to a well-guarded green.

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Hole 2

Hole Name Black Rock

From The Tee The second hole requires an accurate drive to avoid the

From The Fairway fairway bunkers. A hooked tee-shot will find trouble in the bunker to the left, which gathers a right to left shot.

On The Green The second shot is played with a short to mid-iron to a well-guarded green.

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Hole 3

Hole Name Gyaws

From The Tee An accurate tee shot is essential and would be played with a

From The Fairway two iron or three wood for the longer hitter, to finish short of the burn which crosses the narrow fairway.

On The Green The tee-shot should be played down the right-hand side of the fairway to avoid the penalising bunkers on the left. The green slopes away from the player so the second should be firm with plenty of bite.

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Hole 4

Hole Name Dunure

From The Tee The first of the par fives, the long fourth is a dog-leg to the right.

From The Fairway

On The Green A deep bunker positioned right, in the neck of the dog-leg, adds danger with any attempt to cut the corner too close. The second shot should be played into position to give the best line for a short iron shot into the two-tiered green.

Hole 5

Hole Name Greenan

From The Tee A fine short hole requiring a well struck long iron shot to carry into the heart of the green.

From The Fairway

On The Green The green has dangerous bunkers to the left, front and right. A difficult hole, which has the prevailing wind blowing off the beach.

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Hole 6

Hole Name Turnberry

From The Tee Troon has the longest and the shortest holes in Open Championship golf and at 601 yards, the sixth is the longest.

From The Fairway An arrow straight tee-shot is required to finish between the fairway bunkers to the left and right. The second shot with a fairway wood should be aimed slightly left to avoid the bunker on the right,

On The Green which will put you in perfect position for a soft pitch to a long and narrow green beautifully framed by sand dunes on both sides.

Hole 7

Hole Name Tel-El-Kebir

From The Tee The seventh is a magnificent golfing hole and is played from an elevated tee perched on top of the dunes.

From The Fairway The fairway dog-legs sharply to the right with a sandhill and bunker set into the angle of the dog-leg. Any tendency to hook a drive will be penalised by the bunkers on the left.

On The Green A lofted iron will send the ball over a slight gully to a well trapped green set between two imposing sandhills.

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Hole 8

Hole Name Postage Stamp

From The Tee Originally called “Ailsa” because there is a perfect view of the rocky islet of that name, from the tee. The smallness of the putting surface accounted for the current name when William Park writing in “Golf Illustrated” said, ” A pitching surface skimmed down to the size of a Postage Stamp”.

From The Fairway

On The Green

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Hole 9

Hole Name The Monk

From The Tee The last hole on the outward half, the Ninth is a stiff two shotter.

From The Fairway The tee-shot at this hole is straightforward and should be played short of the two bunkers on the left-hand side of the dog-leg onto a narrow undulating fairway with heavy rough on either side. A mid-iron approach is needed to reach an elevated two-tiered green.

On The Green A mid-iron approach is needed to reach an elevated two-tiered green.

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Hole 10

Hole Name Sandhills

From The Tee The first hole on the homeward stretch, a difficult tee-shot into the prevailing wind, with an errant shot punished by gorse on the right and a large gully on the left.

From The Fairway

On The Green To reach this green in two shots you must hit a searching iron to a plateau green set into the side of a hill with a sharp drop on the right.

Hole 11

Hole Name The Railway

From The Tee Walking to the tee you have time to ponder over the difficulties of this long and dangerous hole.

From The Fairway

On The Green The railway runs parallel to the hole on the right for its entire length, with a hooked drive almost certainly lost in thick gorse. A long second shot waits, with the railway just a few yards off the green to the right. The eleventh was rated the most difficult hole in the 1997 Open Championship.

Hole 12

Hole Name

From The Tee

From The Fairway The twelfth is a slight dog-leg with the drive played over a rise into the narrow neck of the fairway.

On The Green The tee-shot should be played left of centre to avoid the ridge of rough and gorse on the right. The second shot is played to a slightly raised two-tiered green falling off down a bank to the left and guarded by a bunker on the right.

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Hole 13

Hole Name Burmah

From The Tee The drive at the thirteenth is hit to an undulating fairway, the feature of the hole being

From The Fairway

On The Green the second shot played towards an elevated green. It is advisable to take one club more for your approach. This is the first of a straight run of six homeward bound holes.

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Hole 14

Hole Name Alton

From The Tee Bunkers to the left and right make a narrow entrance to the green,

From The Fairway

On The Green so it is essential to play a strong shot, which carries into the centre of the green.

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Hole 15

Hole Name Crosbie

From The Tee The first of the very demanding four finishing holes, the fifteenth, is a long two shotter.

From The Fairway The drive should favour the left half of the fairway to open up the second shot to a flat green which rests in a hollow. This hole is well bunkered on the approach and the emphasis is on an accurate second shot.

On The Green The drive should favour the left half of the fairway to open up the second shot to a flat green which rests in a hollow. This hole is well bunkered on the approach and the emphasis is on an accurate second shot.

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Hole 16

Hole Name Well

From The Tee The longest hole on the inward nine, the tee-shot is played to a.

From The Fairway flat fairway laying-up short of the burn.

On The Green The line for the second shot favours the left to be in the best position for the shot to the green, which is well protected by bunkers

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Hole 17

Hole Name Rabbit

From The Tee The last and most difficult of the short holes. The tee-shot can be as much as a driver, depending upon the wind.

From The Fairway The plateau green falls away sharply on both sides and is well guarded by bunkers, short and on the right and left hand sides. A challenging hole if you have pencil and card in your hand.

On The Green

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Hole 18

Hole Name Craigend

From The Tee The ideal drive at the eighteenth is straight down the

From The Fairway centre to avoid the bunkers on either side of the fairway. Bunkers short of the green will catch a mishit second shot and the green itself,

On The Green which lies right in front of the clubhouse, is protected by a bunker to the left and two more to the right. An overhit approach shot could finish on the path at the rear of the green, which is out of bounds.

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