Celtic Manor – Hole 18

613 YARDS, PAR 5

Graeme McDowell says: This plays downhill with usually a bit of wind help so the yardage can be misleading. Rory (McIlroy) and I have been joking that if we play foursomes he gets the even holes because he can hit me a big ‘bomb’ down there and get a shoot off the downslope so I could be going in with a hybrid.

They’ll want guys to be going for this in two so I think they’ll use a forward tee. The second shot is off a downslope so that affects ball flight and because the green is elevated anything short will find water; but going long means the left greenside bunker is in play. But that’s good to most pins and can be a good up-and-down birdie chance.