“The third hole last year was a bit controversial,\u201d Horsfield explained. \u201cThere was a bunker about 30, 40 yards short, and it would sort of kick down into the water. So they’ve taken that out, flattened that area, which I think is great. When guys are drilling a 4-iron, 5-wood in 10 short of the green, you don’t really want it bouncing in the water when you’ve hit a good shot.\u201d<\/p>\n
The other issue from the players perspective was that the tee box on the par-5 13th needed to be adjusted so players weren\u2019t forced to hit less than driver into a reachable par 5. The course listened to the feedback and lengthened the hole, which Horsfield explained.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Moving the] tee box on 13 I think is great, the par 5,\u201d he said. \u201cThey’ve cleared out all the trees on the left side, and it’s a lot more open now, and I think visually it looks great. Adding a new tee box back, you can hit driver and not worry about running through into the water, whereas last year I hit 3-wood to keep it short of the water and it was \u2013 you never really want to hit a 3-wood off a par-5 tee. You’re hitting your driver sort of into the same area, but now it demands a good drive so that you can get there in two. It’s a great risk-reward tee shot hole.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to the major changes to holes three and 13, there have been some other minor changes made to elevate the spectator viewing experience and make the course more challenging.<\/p>\n
The 12th hole tee box has been moved further back; the 14th tee was shifted to the players\u2019 left to make more room for the fan area; and trees were removed near the small pond to the left of the landing zone on the 18th hole.<\/p>\n
With the golf course and players working collaboratively to enhance the layout, golf fans should expect an even more exciting tournament in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“The third hole last year was a bit controversial,\u201d Horsfield explained. \u201cThere was a bunker about 30, 40…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-22856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}