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This has to be one of the great finishing holes in golf. The green sits imperiously above the lake on a “hog’s back” with the prevailing wind of the water. The player often has to play further right, across the water and the two guarding bunkers, than he would wish, but if he takes the safe route to the left and overdoes it, he is invariably down a steep slope in a forest of trees and decaying leaves, often never to be seen again. Stand on this tee with a good card in your pocket and strike the ball solidly to the centre of the green and your sense of achievement is complete; fiddle nervously and try to protect your score and you will almost certainly live to regret it. Most courses have a card wrecker somewhere along the way, but when it is the eighteenth and as picturesque as this one, there’s something special about it.
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