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Hole No. 3
Royal County Down
Newcastle, Northern Ireland
9th hole; par 4, 486 yards
Rising in the backdrop beyond the red brick steeple of the Slieve Donard Hotel are the Mountains of Mourne, while to the left sits Dundrum Bay and the Irish Sea. The daunting tee shot is to a blind fairway that is framed with gorse bushes 80 feet below you. The approach is only marginally easier, with a pair of bunkers etched into a slope 25 yards short of the elevated green. Three more whiskered traps stand guard closer to the surface. In the wind, no hole on earth better combines beauty and brawn.
Credit: Aidan Bradley
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