The Old Course at St. Andrews is regarded as one of the world’s finest and most challenging layouts. The winner of the Open Championship this month will need to navigate 112 bunkers, the constant winds that whip off the North Sea to find the large and hard to read greens.
In order to conquer this course, they will need to play several shots consistently well – clearing the lips in the traps, driving the ball under the wind, approaches from slopey lies and chipping from tight lies. Over the next five pages I’ll show you how they’ll do it.
1 OPEN THE FACE TO CLEAR THE STEEPEST OF LIPS
With 112 bunkers littered across all 18 holes, anyone who plays The Old Course is almost guaranteed to find one (or more) at some point (unless you’re Tiger Woods, circa 2000).
If you find the famous Strath bunker guarding the front of the par-3 11th,
