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What are your thoughts on tough closing holes?

Eric Hunsworth, Peebles I’m not sure many of us really relish too taxing a finale. Hopefully, even on courses with tough closing holes, there will still be forward tee options to soften the sting a little.

I’ve been a member of two clubs where the 18th was the hardest hole, and it was always galling to grit it out for three-and-a-half hours only to throw it all away with a double or treble on 18! The problem is that such an outcome

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