A very tough par 4 where a good straight drive is crucial if you are to hit the green with your 2nd shot. You will have to fly a long iron or fairway wood to this green as there is a dip short of the green that will stop the ball running.
The hardest hole on the course particularly in an east wind. The drive needs to be straight and long to a narrowish fairway. Get into the rough and the green can be out of range. A difficult second to a green guarded by an unseen bunker and bank to the left and a copse of trees to the right. In the trees to the right and it’s often two shots dropped.
Really a par 5. Try to hit the fairway and second shot short of the cross bunkers. Allow for dead ground at front of green with third shot. A surprisingly big green.
Up to 1925 the 13th tee was near the 12th green which necessitated playing across the corner of the woods. However it was then moved to it's present position making a longer hole but a less hazardous problem for slicers. As a par four it has always been something approaching an impossibility but now that the tee is being pulled back still further
and the hole treated as a par 5, a more reasonable proposition for the majority of golfers. Called The Woods in 1978.