| Hole 6 |
Par |
Yards |
| Medal |
4 |
338 |
| Gents |
4 |
316 |
| Ladies |
4 |
311 |
| Stroke |
12 |
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The perfect tee shot shapes right to left over the hill,with a wood or a long iron.A birdie chance is on offer from the fairway although an accurate pitch is required into a slightly narrow green. Walking to the 6th tee, the soothing sea sounds bathe your hearing from the left, whilst utter peace pervades from the right. Notice too the tight shawl of windpruned blackthorn drawn round the shoulders of the cliff at this point.
What fascinating topography creates the parallel two part fairway of upper knolly ridge and lower cradled channel that makes up the 6th hole, the track between the two proving an irresistible lure to investigation of these twinned terrains. At the highest point on the 6th fairway, literally the pinnacle of the course, the entire 360 horizon is disrupted only by the nearby cairn point, creating a top-of-the-world sensation, the vagaries of weather simply enhancing the amalgam of sea breeze, salt air and light. Surely the blackheaded gulls have been playing on the wind up here today, for numerous white feathers skit and flit across the bright green mantle of the turf like carefree, topsy-turvy little dancers.
Yet another brown hare – or is it the same one? – runs out of the rough between the 6th and 7th, stopping at the high point to contemplate this intruder in his territory.
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