Welcome to the Hunting Course. Front nine and back nine have changed order, so Slaley’s own Amen Corner has moved around, with the final quartet of the front nine now making up the last four of 18.

The 7,000-yard, par-72 Hunting, designed by Dave Thomas, has lush sweeping fairways, streams, lakes, towering trees and banks of rhododendrons – but, aesthetics aside, it will catch out the unwary.

AT SLALEY HALL they have moved the hardest until last. Hole 18, stoke index 1. So when the legs are feeling a little weary and your mindset is slowing down after 17 competitive and challenging ...