Colt’s lost tenth green is rebuilt at Real Golf Club de Pedreña in Spain by EIGCA Past President David Williams

“Pedreña exhibits many of Colt’s endearing qualities, with, for example greens eight, 13 and 14 all sited dramatically on the skyline,” said Williams. “Perhaps the greatest – and definitely the most dramatic – complex was that of the short par three tenth, a wide but shallow putting surface guarded by two cavernous bunkers to the front and three grassy hollows to the rear.”

Although golfers could still see Colt’s dramatic original green complex, it has been out of play since the mid 1970s, when the club gained additional land and extended the par four ninth and eleventh into par five holes, A new ninth green and new eleventh tee were built together with a completely new, longer par three tenth. “That new tenth became probably the least liked on the layout – an uphill hole of approximately 180 metres to a small green falling off on three sides and tree lined on the other,” said Williams, who has been consulting at Pedreña for several years. “When we were informed by the club that holes nine, ten and eleven were programmed for reconstruction this winter, we felt strongly that something had to be done to the abandoned Colt tenth green which has stood forlornly in the carry of the elevent hole for the last 40 years.”

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