Can you name these famous golf holes by their nicknames?

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This month’s NBC Sports broadcast of the 145th Open Championship will feature a“Wire Cam”—a moving camera suspended from a wire, akin to the type used during NFL broadcasts and the Players Championship—to track shots on Royal Troon’s legendary 8th hole. All five of  the hole’s bunkers will have cameras in them as well. The shortest hole in Open Championship golf at 123 yards, the par-3 8th sports a wee green (420 square feet, about one-tenth the size of Sawgrass’ 17th) that has rightfully earned it the nickname of “Postage Stamp.”

Other courses that have hosted the Open also have cleverly nicknamed holes. Can you match them?

1. Road

2. Het Girdle (Hot Griddle)

3. Spectacles

4. Mrs. Forman’s

5. Dinna Fouter (Don’t Mess About)

6. Alps

7. Braid’s Brawest (Braid’s Best)

8. Calamity

9. Turnberry

10. Bobby Jones

11. Tom Morris

12. Himalayas

A. No. 5, Gleneagles (King’s Course)

B. No. 5, Prestwick

C. No. 10, St. Andrews (Old Course)

D. No. 13, Gleneagles (King’s Course)

E. No. 6, Royal Troon (Old Course)

F. No. 14, Royal Portrush (Dunluce Dourse)

G. No. 4, Musselburgh   

H. No. 17, St. Andrews (Old Course)

I. No. 10, Turnberry (Ailsa Course)

J. No. 11, Royal Liverpool

K. No. 14, Carnoustie

L. No. 18, St. Andrews (Old Course)

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This article appears in the July 2016 issue of Colorado AvidGolfer.

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ANSWERS: 1-H, 2- A, 3-K, 4-G, 5-I, 6-J, 7-D, 8-F, 9-E, 10-C, 11-L, 12-B