Moreover, the dry stone wall that runs across the middle of the fairway provides not only a great feature but also a potentially formidable hazard. The drive should be aimed at the gap in the wall and will need to be well struck if the green is to be reachable in two. Those with less length may need to consider laying up short of the wall with their second should they fail to get a good one away from the tee. If the tee shot is well hit, you have surmounted only the first hurdle for the green has a narrow entrance with two right hand side bunkers that seem to act as magnets to anything even fractionally short or off target. However, one must dice with these traps to hold the putting surface, for in the summer with the greens hard and fast, any long iron that carries these bunkers is likely to run through back, leaving a tough down hill chip shot.
Dropped shots are common here, for there are dangers lurking at every juncture.
Accordingly, anyone who emerges without a blemish on the card has done exceptionally well. Moreover, they will have set themselves up well for the middle part of the front nine that winds its way along these beautiful links. The next part of the course is overlooked by some spectacular properties. Jane Fonda used to own one of the houses here and they provide a dramatic backdrop to some fine holes. This brings us out to the furthest point of the course and holes eight and nine, which oddly enough, are both par fives off the back tees.