Wow, can't believe no one has tapped Old Head's 12th. That's the most intimidating tee shot I've ever seen. It has the "carry over the ocean" angle like Turnberry's 9th, Pebble's 18th, etc. except the cliff is a 250 ft drop, not some puny 10-40 ft. The fairway lies above the tee box, so the landing area, in addition to be angled, is totally blind as well! Basically you stand on the tee and aim at a cliffside, and hope you don't hook it or catch it thin. For added fun, the prevailing wind blows from left to right, so you have to aim even further out over disaster to put it where it needs to be. I have a couple pictures I took, but they don't do it justice because I'm a terrible photographer (plus they are 5 megapixel so the dialin people would probably lynch me!)
Andy Doyle,
I've played Waterville twice, and the first time I hit what started out as a pretty good drive but just faded it out onto the beach. When I returned last summer I hit two monster drives that were perfect, except for a very slight push that started out down the fenceline, and I looked around hoping one of them would have taken a favorable bounce but found neither. There's an awful lot of room left of that fenceline but it seems to have a magnetic attraction for some reason, doesn't it?