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Carnoustie Golf Links Championship Course Review
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Carnoustie Golf Links Championship Course Review
There’s a strong case for saying that, when the breeze is up, Carnoustie’s Championship course presents the sternest test of golf in the country.
Set over undulating and supremely firm links land, ditches thread a path through and alongside many holes, out of bounds is an intimidating presence from a number of tees and the perfectly placed bunkers have a magnetic, if unwanted, appeal.
This is a course that examines every element of a player’s game. The layout demands length and accuracy, careful strategy and a delicate touch. As such, any successes around this marvellous course are hugely rewarding and satisfying.
Golf has been played at Carnoustie for hundreds of years, but the Championship course is more recent – Allan Robertson laid out 10 holes in 1850, then Tom Morris made it 18.
James Braid oversaw alterations in the 1920s before local man James Wright completed the finishing touches prior to the Open Championship of 1937. He was responsible for redesigning the final three holes, aiming to “toughen them up”.
If there is any doubt that the course is the most difficult on the Open roster, there is none that the closing three holes serve up its toughest finish.
The 16th is a par 3 of 245 yards played into the prevailing wind. The famous Barry Burn then snakes across the 17th and 18th holes, threatening from the tee on both holes and for the approach to the last.
It was in the base of the burn, short of the final green that Jean Van de Velde’s 1999 Open dream became a farcical nightmare.
Carnoustie Golf Links Championship Course Review – Golf Monthly Verdict
The most demanding and dramatic finish on the rota. Exceptional conditioning
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