CLIFFTOP CONCLUSION Stephanie Ho putts at Discovery Bay Golf Club’s sixteenth hole during the final round of the Helene et Henri Hong Kong Ladies’ Amateur Open Championship, with Chichiro Ikeda of the Philippines and Hong Kong’s Kitty Tam looking on. Ikeda would go on to comfortably take the title by seven shots from 16-year-old Ho who finished in a tie for second. PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLES MCLAUGHLIN
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NUMBERS GAME Total prize purse of the Hong Kong Open in 1999: US$300,000 Total prize purse of the Hong Kong Open in 2009: US$2.5 million Palindrome of par, by hole, at the Old Course, St Andrews: 4-4-4-4-5-4-4-3-4-4-3-4-4-5-4-4-4-4 Mathematical probability of this occurrence: 1 in 17,536 Other courses known to be palindromic by par: 0
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WHAT DOES THE TERM “REDAN” MEAN IN GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTURE?
World ranking of Lin Wen-tang one week prior to 2008 HK Open: 92 World ranking of Lin Wen-tang one week after 2008 HK Open: 51
The name “Redan” comes from the Crimean War, when the British captured a Russian-held fort, or in the local dialect, a redan. A serving officer - John White-Melville - is credited on his return as describing the 192-yard 15th (pictured) at North Berwick Golf Club in Scotland like the formidable fortress, or redan, he had encountered at Sebastopol. One of the most copied holes in golf, a redan hole is usually a par-three in which the green is wider than it is deep and angles diagonally away from the tee (that is, the left side of the green is farther away from the tee than the right side of the green). A redan hole slopes front-to-back and right-to-left, and is often guarded by a deep bunker fronting the middle part of the green, or bunkers on the right and left fronts. The tee shot may play slightly uphill to a green surface that is partially or fully blind to the golfer.
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