The 8th hole on which Scottish golf course has been nicknamed the 'Postage Stamp'?

It measures 123 yards in length and is the shortest par-three in championship golf - but the Postage Stamp remains one of Open golf's great enigmas. The eighth hole at Royal Troon, it has made some amateurs feel immortal, but has also chewed up and spat out some of the game's greatest, suggesting to them never to look at a sand wedge again.

The hole's difficulty did not immediately strike the Troon locals in the late 19th century, and they called it Ailsa because of the stunning view of the rocky isle of that name that can be seen from the tee box. Passengers on the train that runs by the course still marvel at the view, overlooking the terrified gentlemen (lady members are not allowed here) preparing to take on the eighth.

Willie Park Jnr is attributed with giving the hole its current name, when he wrote in Golf Illustrated in the early 20th century that it had "a pitching surface skimmed down to the size of a postage stamp". Allow your ball to slip off the stamp and it will leave you in either some of Britain's deepest bunkers or one of the many hollows for which Troon is famous.