As for me, I wished someone had told me about the correct line from the 4th tee before and not after my duel with Dornoch. It has also been suggested and particularly by members of the Sutherland clan that the Duke should've been shot and if not dealt with so drastically, his statue be removed.
Having reached the outer limits of the course I came across ‘Dunrobin’ with its view across the Dornoch Firth. Dreams do come true but there was no time to dawdle, I must see ‘Foxy’ before it was too late. The 14th, called "Foxy", a long par-4, became famous when Harry Vardon called it, "The finest natural hole I have ever played."
A slight dogleg measuring about 460 yards and it is best played with a draw off the tee and a fade for the second shot. And that's the easy part. The severely crowned green, so characteristic of Royal Dornoch, demands that should you miss the green you had better get it right when it comes to club selection for your chip shot, or alternatively play, what in Scotland used to be called a, "Musselburgh skinner". Now better known as a, ‘Texas wedge’.
Tom Watson and Ben Crenshaw visited Dornoch, and their feelings for the course made the world more aware of it. “And yet the landscape and the course's features and the town's ambiance - the peace one feels there - don't change, no matter who comes and goes."
And for me it was also time to go. My duel with Royal Dornoch was now over and time to move on to Brora, 16 miles from Dornoch and Dunrobin Castle a mere 12 miles away.