Mount Osmond Golf Club

Recently redeveloped, the opening hole is a slight dogleg to the right. It?s important to keep your tee shot left of centre on the fairway to open up the green for your second shot. Your approach will likely be from a slightly hanging lie with the ball below your feet from about 150 metres. Savour the views when you get to the green.

The first short hole of the round plays uphill and generally into the breeze so you may want to take an extra club, but steer clear of the road on the right.

Ranked the hardest hole on the course, this tough par 4 used to be a par 5. It is important you aim slightly right off the tee to allow you to hit your second shot into what is a very undulating green which is guarded by a bunker on the right. The spot to miss the green is just to the left.

Straightaway par 3 with water on the right. The green is well protected by bunkers and not always easy to find. Allow for the left-to-right prevailing wind.

Dogleg left. You need to be slightly right of centre with the tee shot to avoid the fairway trap on the corner of the dogleg. The average player will probably beleft with an 8 or 9 iron into the green. Avoid going left of the green at all costs, as it is very difficult to get up and down from there.

Uphill par 5 with a bunker on the left and out of bounds on the right. This is a hole that even the better players might consider hitting hybrid off the tee for safety because direction is more important than distance. If you are feeling brave, you can get it on for two if you do take driver and hit it dead straight. The green is easy to find as long as you avoid the bunker short right.

Short dogleg left, better players can actually reach the green from the tee as it plays about 240 metres from tee to green going the direct route. With out of bounds left and a water hazard on the right the safer play is to take a mid-iron from the tee leading a wedge into the green. The putting surface is quite undulating, but this is a definite birdie chance.

Good par, don?t flirt with the water hazard right and aim straight down the middle with driver, 3 wood or hybrid. Having avoided the lone fairway bunker you will be hitting into an elevated, undulating green. There is a pot bunker back left and another deep bunker front right and anything long or left spells trouble.

Bit of a tricky hole. The fairway bunker on the right needs to be avoided if you hope to reach the green in two, so for average players its best to lay up about 180m off the tee. The two-tiered green slops from right to left and is protected by a bunker on the front left side

Longish par 4. With fairway bunkers right and left you need to be pretty straight off the tee, leaving anything from a hybrid to a long iron into the green. There is a bunker on the right of the green, so better to aim left.

Straightaway par 3, with a bunker front left. Avoid hitting it left, as it is almost impossible to get it up and down from there.

Dogleg right par 4. It?s only about 200m to the corner, so you may consider hitting a hybrid off the tee. Then it?s straight uphill to a green that?s bunkered on the right-hand side.

Good par 3 with bunkers on the right. You can leave it short and still have a relatively easy up and down.

Short par 5. Aim to hit it about 230m from the tee down the right centre of the fairway and thereby taking the two fairway bunkers on the left out of play. The second shot is uphill, but the better player can reach the green in two. There is a bunker to the left of a two-tiered green that slopes from back to front.

Aim left of centre off the tee to miss the fairway bunker on the right from where it is almost impossible to reach the green. That should leave you with a mid-iron to a well guarded green. The bunker at the front left you can see, but also beware the pot bunker back left that is not visible from the fairway.

Beautiful little par 3 with bunkers in the front of the green. Anything long over the back is unplayable, so correct club selection is vital.

Straight uphill par 4, anything slightly right of centre off the tee is great. You are hitting into a green that is bunkered short left and has a pot bunker back left that you can?t see from the fairway.

Par 5 to finish, with out of bounds all the way up the right-hand side. You also need to keep it left of centre to avoid the fairway bunkers down the right which come into play. From there, you can either have a go at the green, ensuring you avoid the bunker on the right, or lay up to leave your favourite wedge distance. A birdie chance to finish the round.