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Last Updated: Thursday, 8 July, 2004, 21:10 GMT 22:10 UK
Hole 12 at Royal Troon
The Fox, 431 yards, par four

Ken Brown
By Ken Brown
BBC TV golf commentator

Another blind drive to a narrowing fairway, it's bunkerless off the tee to a slight dog-leg left-to-right.

The tee-shot should be aimed to the left to avoid trees and gorse but there is always more room on the right than it appears

The pear-shaped green is on two levels, low and narrow at the front and wider at the back, where the pin will be for at least two days.

Shots running through the green to the left will leave an awkward pitch-and-run back uphill.

Mark Calcavecchia holed from the bank on the left of the green to win the Open in a play-off here in 1989.

Named after the foxes which once inhabited the woodland that used to grow here.

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