Editor’s note: This story originally ran in the July 11 issue of Golfweek.
If good things come in small packages, the “Postage Stamp” might be one of the best things in all of British Open golf.
The famously diminutive par-3 No. 8 at Royal Troon Golf Club’s Old Course is the shortest hole in the Open rota, at only 123 yards. It’s also one of the most photographed, and easily so, from the vantage point of the platform tee down to an elevated green protected by five steep bunkers all around and steep falloffs short, right and behind.