Extracted from AmEx Centurion magazine (couldn't find a link):
"My Criteria
A hole that I like to play and that has a special personal memory
It must be on one of my favourite courses
It must not be on a course that I designed
My top five (not in any particular order)
ROYAL TROON #8 par 3, 126 yards
The size, particularly the narrowness of the green, combined with the severity of the tightly mown green surrounds, difficult gathering bunkers and the wind, make this an incredibly demanding, but equally exciting short hole.
SUNNINGDALE #1 par 5, 494 yards
A fun starting hole that plays over a heathery grass face to a split level second landing area. The open entry green makes it possible to reach the green in two shots. This hole must have been a Colt favourite as he replicated it at De Pan in Holland.
NORTH BERWICK #15 par 3, 193 yards
Whether its a high cut or a low running draw there are many ways to play the "Redan". However, there is no easy way to play it. Without a doubt, this is the most imitated hole in the world, but as a testimony to the real "Redan", this original is still the best.
CARNOUSTIE #14 par 5, 483 yards
Even thought this dog leg left is most remembered for the high face spectacle bunkers, 65 yards from the green, it is a well conceived short par 5 from tee to green. In order to reach the green in two shots drives must be played through a very narrow line to avoid the well placed gathering bunkers on the left and the single gathering bunker on the right.
THE OLD COURSE #18, par 4, 357 yards
This large undulating rectangle of links land has no bunkers or rough. But this hole is particularly special because it is the home hole at the Home of Golf. To stand on the tee with the long evening shadows sweeping across the Royal & Ancient Clubhouse and the town of St Andrews and drive across the Swilken Burn, approaching the green over the Valley of Sin, is bordering on being a religious experience."
ENDS