Royal Troon Golf Club

The 8th, the Postage Stamp, Royal Troon At 123 yards, the Postage Stamp is the shortest hole played in the Open, and the view from the high tee shows why nobody relaxes on it: a green barely ten paces wide, squeezed between a dune and a ring of deep bunkers, including the aptly named Coffin bunker. The hole was first called Ailsa, after the view of Ailsa Craig from the tee. Gene Sarazen made a hole-in-one here with a 5-iron at the 1973 Open, at age 71.