Exactly Misuere Redanman....
In my opinion another important thing to add is where it comes during the round. in the context of the Old Course, it's a precursor of things that are to come--soon.
Also, I like this description from Desmond Muirhead's book with Tip Anderson:
Desmond: This green may have the steepest continuous slope in the world, but at least it's one that slopes toward you and from above, at least, presents a clearly visable target, unlike most of the greens at St. Andrews. That's an advantage, but it makes this hole the most open to the elements.
Tip: It makes the green surface dry and very fast. Ye want to have an uphill putt on this hole. nless the grass is grown long, a downhill putt won't stop and sidehill putts have a borrow you won't believe.
Desmond: I'll believe anything about this hole. Tip, you can't take your eyes off any of the bunkers, but for all of that sheer mass of Cockle, Strath is easily the most dominant and most significant greenside bunker anywhere. Hill bunker is like a bottomless, circular well with those dark gloomy shadowsand invisable sand. I sometimes think Hill simply bores into the center of the earth.
Tip: Then, if you go over the green, yer in deep trouble. There's the Eden River, deep rough and the little bunker Bobby Jones got in once right back of the hole.
Desmond: Back to front, there's probably a ten percent downhill slope on this green; I doubt that anyone could stop the ball on this fast dry surface. The slope bottoms out and then comes up again at the lip of the Strath Bunker like a cross section of a wave. There's an enormous tension between the steep slope of the green and the menace of the Strath, and this is transmitted tothe golfer. You want to land the ball just over the bunkers lip and stop it in the hollow to avoid the slope and the nasty, downhill putt, but that's the problem. In a tournament, you'd have to be desperate to go for the pin when it's behind the Strath, and hope for a reasonable line to the hole.
Tip: Ye'll find it's no' so easy to get putts close to the right side, owing to the wind. Ye're likely to leave most putts in the six-to-ten-foot range.