It’s the most famous little patch of sand in world golf. As Cameron Smith looked at it during the final round at St Andrews, he was faced with a tough choice: pitch or putt?
It’s the most famous little patch of sand in world golf, a little bunker about six metres wide and not quite four metres long. It has a face a little more than a metre high.
Most famously, Japanese professional Tommy Nakajima was contending for the British Open in 1978 when his ball spilled into the sand protecting the 17th green during the third round. It took him four shots to escape the bunker, and that was that. The savage British press later dubbed the bunker “the sands of Nakajima”.
And so, with his chance of winning a milestone edition of The Open, the 150th at the home of golf, and his ball nestled below the Road Hole bunker, Australian Cameron Smith had a choice: audaciously chip over the bunker, or snake a putt alongside the camber and hope it doesn’t skew back into the sand?
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