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Standing on the elevated tee
to see stroke index 1 stretching out ahead, where nothing except your
best drive will do. Dense woodland to the left with out of bounds beyond
encourages a drive down the right. But this safe option leaves the green
out of range in two. The Cock Beck, rumoured to have run with blood during
the Battle of Towton in 1461 during the War of the Roses, one of the bloodiest
battles fought on English soil, bounds the right side of the fairway all
the way to and around the green and has been the finish of many a promising
round in recent years. |