Postage Stamp HOLE 8 / 123 YARDS / PAR 3
The first five and a half holes plunge straight ahead over bumpy but level ground along the Firth of Clyde with clear-day views across the water of Ailsa Craig before veering left at the seventh into higher dunes. The game at Troon doesn’t really begin until the round reaches the sandhills, specifically the par-3 eighth Postage Stamp, one of golf’s most famous holes. It plays from an exposed, six-metre-high dune ridge across a valley to a narrow fingernail of green surrounded by five deep bunkers awaiting shots that will teeter off the crested edges. On a calm day it’s a sand wedge for Open contestants, but those days are rare, and in strong head or crosswinds it’s Troon’s most dangerous shot.
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