Road Hole Turns Back the Clock It May Have Been Controversial, It Might Be Considered New, but Alterations to the Course's Most Famous Bunker Actually Revisit the Past, Reports James Cusick

Sunday HeraldJuly 12, 2005

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THEY'VE remodelled the Road Hole bunker at St Andrews? For purists, this is like tweaking the Mona Lisa's smile, or giving Michelangelo's David a little nip and tuck.

However, the Old Course does get updated from time to time. When Tiger, Ernie, Phil, Vijay and friends pitch up this week, they will encounter a slightly longer course (7,279 yards), five new tees (two, four, 12, 13 and 14) and 94 of the Old Course's 112 bunkers spruced up for the occasion.

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Road Hole Turns Back the Clock It May Have Been Controversial, It Might Be Considered New, but Alterations to the Course's Most Famous Bunker Actually Revisit the Past, Reports James Cusick

But the most controversial change will be the tailoring done to the 455-yard, par4 17th - the Road Hole - notably to its greenside bunker. That notorious pit has b...

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