17th -This, surely the most famous hole in golf, is a supremely difficult par four. The original sheds, in direct line to the green, gave way to a single outbuilding almost 30 years ago, an adjuct to the original Old Course Hotel. As with the sheds, all shots over the outbuilding are threatened by out-of-bounds, especially for those trying to reach the best line into the green. The sensible route for many is between the outbuilding and Cheape's bunker on the left, with a fine shot towards the right corner of the green, which leaves anything from an eight iron to a delicate "bump and run" as the Americans call it.
Any drive left of Cheape's bunker makes the hole even more difficult; a long pulled shot leaves a great stretch of rough beyond which lie the Scholar's bunker, the progressing bunker, the dreaded Road bunker and the Road itself - an ever-worsening trail.
