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Golf Monthly
Golf Monthly
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Jeremy Ellwood

The Front Nine No Longer Lives In The Shadow Of The Much-lauded Back Nine At This Top-class Links

The 3rd green at Hillside Golf Club.

Even in the upper echelons of our Top 100, some courses attract more praise and attention for one of their nines than the other.

Royal Aberdeen, with its mesmerising outward half would be one example, as would Hillside near Southport, where a revamp of the back nine in the 1960s by Fred Hawtree took the inward half to a whole new level.

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