Claudia Laurent
Golf writer, Golf Handicapp · 23 August 2026
172 yards along the top of a chalk coast, from one clifftop to the next, and between the two there is nothing at all for several hundred feet. The face below you is brilliant white, streaked with flint and cut with weathering runnels, and it falls to a shelf of pale boulders with the sea washing round them. The green sits on the flat ground opposite with one bunker on its right, and the only way over is the timber boardwalk that runs out along the edge. There is no bail-out. There is no chipping back on. What the hole does to good players is make them doubt a stock 7 iron. A shot played across a gap with a huge fall underneath it gives your eye nothing to measure against, so the green looks nearer than it is and almost everybody comes up short. The wind is stronger out here than it feels on the tee too, because there is nothing between you and open sea to slow it down. Take one more club than the number says, aim at the middle rather than the flag, and take your two putts happily.
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Claudia Laurent · Golf writer, Golf Handicapp
Claudia writes about the World Handicap System, golf scoring and getting more from every round for Golf Handicapp. She is a mid-handicap golfer who logs every card, the good ones and the ones she would rather forget.
This image is AI-generated. Published 23 August 2026.
