Crosbie HOLE 15 / 502 YARDS / PAR 4
The final four holes at Troon are an endurance test as the course has tapered away from the up and down of the sandhills into a string of long, low holes that chug relentlessly towards the finish through wind and the open plain. A quartet of staggered pot bunkers that can extract full-stroke penalties do the work that blind drives and deep hollows did previously, making players think hard about landing spots and run outs. They should try to find the left side of the fairway from where approaches can be run onto the partially obscured green set in a small punch- bowl of hummocks, perhaps setting up a similar 50-foot putt to the one Henrik Stenson jarred in 2016 to pull two shots ahead of a stunned Phil Mickelson in one of the Open’s great duels for the ages.
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