Video: Old Course Flyover, Third and Fourth Holes
/After the start it's easy to get careless on these two deceptive holes.
Cartgate (Out) is so named for the Cartgate bunker guarding the green shared with the fifteenth hole. The hole is really the boilerplate of all good strategic holes: flirt with the hazards and boundary down the right, improve the angle to the green. Bail out left toward the fifteenth fairway and the approach becomes more difficult.
The flyover:
Ginger Beer was named for Daw Anderson (who oversaw the Old Course and had a shop next to Old Tom). He operated a ginger beer cart on the 4th for approximately 20 years. Daw also sold balls and food and clubs.
You can read about Daw here a bit and see a stellar photo of his stand. Take that, cart girls!
The 419-yard hole features a lay-up for today's players and mercifully, no changes to the mound short of the green which was under assault during the recent planned changes to the Old Course.
