Golfing holidays and golf breaks in Scotland.
Royal Troon Golf Club
Craigend Road, Troon, Ayrshire, KA10 6EP
Voted No. 23 - Golf World
Top 100 UK Golf Courses 2008
One of the great links courses in Scotland, the Old Course at Royal Troon is a challenging test of golfing ability. With the wind to contend with, and deep rough interspersed with gorse and broom, accurate shot making is essential. Players should make their scores on the outward nine, as the prevailing north-westerly wind can make the back nine extremely difficult.
A classic links course in every respect, the golfer is eased into the challenge with each hole appearing to get progressively tougher. Narrow fairways lined with trouble make tee shots critical, its bunkers are punishing and Troon's small greens require touch and imagination. Running straight out and back along the coast, Troon often changes dramatically from front nine to back. As those who witnessed the fish floundering on the 4th green during the 1952 Home International will testify, when that prevailing wind blows, it really does blow.
Though boasting many superb holes, there can be little argument about Troon's most famous hole. At 126 yards, the par 3 eighth "The Postage Stamp" may be the shortest hole in British Open golf but it has certainly notched up its fair share of victims.
The severely trapped green is conducive to the golfing equivalent of Ping-Pong and has borne witness to a triple bogey by Tiger Woods in 1997 and an amazing 15 by a certain Open contender in 1950. Perhaps fittingly though, the great Gene Sarazen did manage a hole in one here on the 50th anniversary of his first appearance in the Championship.
A visitor to Royal Troon will enjoy the ambience which pervades within the clubhouse and will delight in the many artefacts which decorate the public rooms.
No. of holes: 18
Length: 7097 yards
Par: 71
Course Type: Links
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