Tom Morris
Back towards the iconic buildings of St Andrews, there’s nothing ostensibly difficult about the bunkerless closing hole. But all sorts of things can happen, and have happened, here.
It might be reachable with favourable winds and that always gives the chasing player the chance to make up two strokes with an eagle at the death.
The sensible drive is towards the clock on the Royal and Ancient clubhouse, leaving a pitch across the green. Just short of the putting surface, though the “Valley of Sin” waits to catch any shot played without complete conviction – remember Constantino Rocca in 1995?
The green slopes from right to left as you look up the hole, and two putts for victory here is never a done-deal. Ask Doug Sanders. He three-putted in 1970 and then lost a playoff to Jack Nicklaus.
