At the upper end of the avenue
of Beeches the road is crossed for the last time to
reach the tee of the Thirteenth hole, adjoining
which is a nature and bird reserve. An unusually
shaped dog-leg Par 4 of 405 yards, it is not a hole
for the slicer for its entire length is bordered on
the right by dense woods that are out-of-bounds.
The line for this dog-leg is to the left where there
is plenty of room to open the shoulders. The second
requires an accurate shot, to the falling green
through a narrow bottleneck guarded by a spinney on
the left with the boundary woods on the right. The
punchbowl green is steeply built up and well
bunkered on both left and right sides.
Pro's
Tip
This hole
can be a ‘card-wrecker’.
Avoid the
long grass on the left and the out-of-bounds on the right by
aiming towards a copse of trees at the end of the fairway.
The second
shot is blind to a well-guarded green. A shot dropped short
will catch a slope and run through!
Come
through this one unscathed and a good score is there for the
taking. |
