What a memorable place!
The scale of the course is very arresting - the wide fairways with their wonderful rolling contours have a real power and majesty. I am not sure I have encountered their equal. I suppose the next strongest impression concerns the greens. Getting there is not TOO much bother, but getting the ball in the hole is a serious challenge such is the contour and speed!
We were playing in a very strong wind so chose to play the course at 6,300 rather than the 6,800 yards, but this was still plenty challenge enough even for a group of quite low handicap players. The 7th is justly famous, and the 10th sticks equally in the mind (almost impossible with a 30+mph wind behind us), as well as the closing stretch from 14. I don't think 15 is that much discussed, but it is a fabulously visual hole. The short holes also stick much in the mind, not just 7.
The look of the course is hugely distinctive and attractive - the rolling fairways allied to the beatiful native grasses - watched over by the famous clubhouse.

The opening tee shot

Approach to number one, a relatively gentle start.

The respite is short lived! The 200 yarde + second hole, heavily blunkered and semi-blind.

The third

A look from behind the green at the fourth....

And from behind the 5th - this shot captures a bit of the scary run-offs which many of the greens have.

The approach to the pond hole - a very meaty two-shotter, the stroke 1 hole

A side view of the green on the Pond hole

The real deal! Hole 7 - Redan - say no more! I love the clubhouse in the background. The observant among you may have noticed the flag standing to attention!

A slightly closer up view -

This view from behind, near the 8th tee.
The pictures do a reasonable job of capturing the dramatic slope on the green - certainly a lot a more dramatic than the original at North Berwick and neighbouring NGLA. I hit a great tee shot to be about 15 feet straight behind the flag (not above the hole) and two putts was a relief!

I like the scenery!

This is out of place - a side view of the 2nd from near the 8th green

A view from behind 8 - a short two shotter, but a perilous green with huge slope.

Homeward bound...and the first inkling of how elevated the green is

Here you can just see the flag on the right edge of the bunker. A hint of what the next hole holds in store!

A fabulous backward look over the sweep of the course -from the 9th green, but that is the18th fairway mostly in view
second nine to follow....