Royal County Down Golf Club

Hole 1

Par 5

Championship (yards): 539

Medal (yards): 523

Stableford (yards): 505

Ladies (yards): 487

Dundrum Bay awaits the errant drive to the right, and a high dune guards the left. The sensible tee shot lands down the right side, collecting the contours of the fairway to finish left centre. The big hitter can take the left centre line. Carrying the ball a bit further reaches the down slope, which gains a shoot forward. This leaves a medium iron to a long narrow green. The shorter hitter has to negotiate well-placed bunkers to get into the 100yd zone. Looking from the front, the green falls from right to left, except for a strip some 10-feet wide on the left edge which rises and therefore has the opposite borrow. Three putts are common when the pin position nears the back.

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