“It’s 123 yards tee to green but it’s probably only playing about 90 with the wind,” advised my caddie, Brian, as we approached the 8th tee at Troon on a blustery day in April. Ninety yards? Those ...

TROON, Scotland — As the thick, dense gorse plants wave heavily back toward the tee like fine hair in the wind, another golfer steps to Royal Troon’s eighth tee box trying to figure out why exactly ...

Getty Images It’s a hole we’d probably all fancy having a go at. After all, the eighth at Royal Troon’s Old Course is just a 123-yard par 3. Indeed, it is the shortest hole in Open Championship ...

Beethoven was not a large man, standing a mere 5-foot-4. Picasso was the same height. The writer Charlotte Bronte was just 4-10, and both the boxing champion Roberto “Hands of Stone” Duran and soccer ...

TROON, Scotland — It’s a simple little thing, really. It’s the 18-handicap hole on Royal Troon, which means it’s been deemed the easiest hole to par on the course. Yet the 123-yard, par-3 eighth hole, ...

It’s a predictable reaction. People watch the major championships and then want to get out and hit some balls at the driving range. The beauty of our time is that at the right facility, you can ...

Royal Troon’s iconic par-3 eighth hole, the Postage Stamp, measures just 120 yards and features five bunkers. Joaquin Niemann found three of them on Friday. He then delivered the bounce-back of the ...

It’s the shortest hole of them all in the British Open rota. It got its name from Willie Park Jr., who won the Open twice and later wrote about the eighth hole at Royal Troon’s Old Course for Golf ...

Royal Troon’s par-3 eighth hole measures just 100 yards for Sunday’s final round at The 152nd Open Championship. It might well play a crucial role in deciding the championship. The Scottish seaside ...

TROON, Scotland (AP) Rory McIlroy felt the wrath of the Postage Stamp. Strange, too, since this par-3 hole is more in line with what you'd expect at the local muni, at least from a distance standpoint ...