7th -This hole is dog-legged, with a daunting drive for the slicer since there is whin on the right for two-thirds of its length, until the eleventh fairway is reached. The best line is to the right of the big hill in front. A longer but safer shot to the green awaits those who go left on it. There are no bunkers in the way until near the green, but the wide and deep shell or chockle bunker has to be carried, and if in doubt - play short. Only a few yards left of shell is the strath bunker, and the combined threat of these and of the bunker beyond shell on the right, makes any blind shot from the lower reaches of the big hill a worring prospect. The seventh is the first of the 'loop' holes, which extends to the twelfth. 11th -
This is among the most testing of short holes - infinitely more difficult than the eighth - for many reasons.
First the green is guarded by Hill bunker on the left, a deep narrow pit with an almost vertical face, 10 feet high; on the right is strath bunker gathering in shots to both the eleventh and the seventh. Further right the huge shell bunker awaits any weak slices.
The green itself slopes from back to front and from left to right to stop because of the down-slope, especially when the wind is from the west. Depending on the wind, the tee-shot may be as much as a drive or as a little as a seven iron. Over the back of the green is the bank of the River Eden, with rough tufty grass. What a pitch back!
