The sight of the ball descending through the air towards the vast plain will be memorable. The landing area is clearly defined by large bunkers. Your eyes could fool you in these undulations! The backs of the slopes conceal the yardage from the golfer’s perspective and foreshortens the shot. Players should trust the distance indicators more than the eye.

Allenby specifically wanted the fairway bunkers to be of the gathering variety: clearly visible and daunting. However he requested that the bunker slopes be firm so that the ball would rarely if ever plug on the face, tending rather to roll back towards the base of the bunker. His golfing experience at Royal Melbourne and Kingston Heath were present in his mind as he planned the bunkering of this hole.