The 10 best holes in Great Britain and Ireland
7th, Liphook
Par 3, 149 yards
I could easily have selected as many as four holes from Liphook – not least two of its other short holes, namely the 2nd and especially the 11th.
Arthur Croome created so many majestic green complexes here – I even love the work of art that is the soon-to-change 9th – but this is the best of them.
Cross the railway bridge and the 7th as well as the 8th and 9th stretch before you in a blissful scene no-one could surely tire of.
It’s just 149 yards but is a devilish little test by virtue of the small undulating, two-tier target, the heather and sand that surround it, and the run-offs and mounds that make recoveries so exacting.
Once on the green you’ll inevitably face on a putt with bags of movement in it. Gorgeous, fun and impossible to leave out of this list.
