The 11th hole

The 11th in 1920

The second short hole, played north beside Sandy Lane, with a mound and a pot bunker right in front of the green. The report of the 1921 final says Jack Gaudin cut his tee shot into the pot bunker here, came out too strongly and then overhit his pitch from the rough. Its own scores, though, give Gaudin a three and Bert Seymour a five, so the player in the bunker was probably Seymour. Darwin, who knew it as the 5th, describes a plateau green with formidable bunkers in its face. He warned that steering too wide of them left a nasty downhill second and more likely a four than a three.^1,5,6,7,9

After 1936

Became the 5th (169 yards on both cards). The greens committee's hole profile of August 1945, redrawn by Neil Hamilton, shows a large bunker just short of the green. A card from a round in October 1949 on the shortened public course still has a 169-yard 6th, probably this hole.

There today

The hole ran north through what is now the wooded block beside Sandy Lane, between Hampermill Spring and Hampermill Wood, about 80 metres in from the road. John Swain wrote in 2012 that most of the old greens at this west end had become overgrown from the 1950s. This ground is now trees.