Royal St George's: Q&A With Martin Ebert, Part I

Newly restored bunkering at the 7th, Royal St George’s (Mackenzie and Ebert)

I can’t thank golf architect Martin Ebert enough for supplying so much insight and accompanying imagery of Royal St George’s. A wealth of information so vast that it required breaking up our Quadrilateral chat into two parts.

Whether you know the course or not, I think you’ll enjoy learning more about what went into analyzing the historical record, stats from recent Opens and Ebert’s common sense approach to our most treasured venues.

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Here is flyover of the 18th referenced in the interview. You can see the pinching bunker filled in down the right that made this one a bit of a crap shoot in firm conditions: