"Wentworth's new 18th hole is a nasty piece of Americana."

Mark Reason's a big fan of the new finishing hole at Wentworth.

It is a strip of blazing neon jagging across the natural green and russets of the Surrey countryside.

A perfectly good par five that we have known and loved down the years has been ruined by a bit of pop art. The Home Counties have been turned into a Floridian water feature.

And...

The result is something that looks flash, but is a golfing nonsense. A perfectly good par five has been turned into a bash, a lay-up and a pitch across water. It might as well be a par three. They spent half a million quid on an aquatic folly – there goes the winner, not waving, but drowning.