Silloth Open. May 27th. Bank holiday Monday.

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7 is hard alright into the wind, make a par here and you are gaining a stroke on the field. Its even harder off the blue tee if you can find it, 40 yards further back and at a different angle which can force your line further right. I believe there is another tee which has not been used but may in future which is on the other side of the pond. This would make the hole straighter but bloody long, probably too long to be honest as a par 4 into the wind.

3 is tough, hard tee shot, hard second and slopey green. Sometimes ignorance is bliss if you dont know the pot bunker is there on the right of the green. It terrifies me that thing, nasty nasty.

 

[Fish]

Hard hole that the 7th, 3 off the tee for me, couldnt reach the green in 2 either. Mental stuff.

Yep the 7th was where I lost my rag and nearly threw a club, in fact it was at this point I thought what am I doing here, ships wouldn't even sail in this weather! My tee shot hit the heather between the 1st & 2nd mound on the left, thought it was sitting OK and stupidly took a 5 iron and flopped it about 5 yards forward only to see it well and truly buried now, took a 9 iron and flopped it again sideways trying to get to the fairway and nearly breaking my wrist in the process, managed to punch it out and I reckon I was still a full 4 iron from the green to which I was short!

But the 5th before that was the most intimidating tee shot I've stood on off those whites, looking right out to sea with OOB lining the fairway, after all our drives, I think our furthest was 190 yards and I just made the fairway 10 yards short of that!

Scary stuff in that wind.