With a week off to refuel, Cronullas Matt Prior reckons hell have enough in his tank to repeat his gargantuan effort against Canberra in the NRL grand final qualifier.The unheralded forward proved pivotal in the Sharks 16-14 win over the Raiders on Saturday night, scoring a momentum-changing try just before halftime at GIO Stadium.He backed it up with 36 tackles, three tackle busts and a huge 233 metres off 22 runs to win man-of-the-match.Stand-in skipper Michael Ennis said Priors form all year had been exceptional, but labelled his performance against the Raiders as good as he had ever seen from a front-rower.I hope its one I can back up, he said.I feel like (I can).Im looking forward to the next few weeks and the challenge of it all. Im excited about it.Prior said he had little choice but to step up his game in the absence of workhorse Paul Gallen, who succumbed to a back injury suffered during the week at training.With Gallen out and Wade Graham sidelined with concussion, the 29-year-old was forced to play 73 minutes - half-an-hour longer than what he has averaged per game this season.Weve had a few games during the year that Gals been out and everyones lifted, he said.We know thats what you have to do when hes out because he does do so much of the work.Prior admitted he was in shock when, in the 39th minute, he came face-to-face with Raiders fullback Jack Wighton who was the only man standing between him and the tryline right under the posts.I thought Id be able to step him, but I got to him and I froze, laughed the 2010 St George Illawarra premiership winner.I didnt know what to do.I got lucky and bumped him off and got it down.The try was his fourth in 23 games this season, his highest tally since making his NRL debut in 2008. 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A mere 123 yards at its maximum, roughly the length of an American football field with the end zones included.But, ohhh, this tiny little patch of Scottish coastline, somehow crammed in between a gully and clinging to a sandhill at the far edge of the course hosting this weeks British Open, is a treacherous place indeed.Just ask McIlroy, who lofted a tee shot that drifted to the right during a practice round Tuesday.The ball skidded into a pin-high bunker, one of five penal pits strategically placed around the long but diabolically narrow green.McIlroy surveyed what he had done, and attempted to play out.Six swings later, he was finally on the green, having knocked three shots off the stacks of sod that line the pot bunker, two more that actually cleared the lip but rolled back into the sand.Had he actually been keeping score for real, it wouldve have been a 9.That didnt go too well, McIlroy said. There is a lot of sand in the bunker. So when the ball just trickles in back into the bunkers, it doesnt go into the middle. It sort of stays. Obviously that lip there is basically vertical, so it sort of just stayed there. And every time I tried to get it out, it would go back into the same spot.He can only hope that doesnt happen when the shots start counting for real on Thursday.Its one of those holes where you just try to hit it in the middle of the green, McIlroy said. Even though its only 115, 120 yards, you just have to not be that aggressive. Try to hit it in the middle. Hitting it into the middle of the green is a good shot, and then take two putts.While McIlroys struggles were a bit of an anomaly, European Tour up-and-comer Andrew Johnston endured what is likely to be a more common chain of events during the Open.Late in the afternoon, after the sun broke through the clouds for the first time in days and the nearby Irish Sea glistened in the glow, Johnston struck a tee shot that was right on the flag, careering into the green about 6 feet short of the cup.Then, the ball spun back off the ledge that serves as another line of defense, nnot stopping until it had dropped into the front bunker.ddddddddddddUnlike McIlroy, Johnson got it out with one swing, the ball stopping about 12 feet past the flag. But the treacherous downhill putt came up short, leaving him with a bogey if he was actually keep score.Even for the best players in the world, par is an acceptable score.If you make four 3s there this week, McIlroy said, youre probably going to gain a bit of ground on the field.The hole got its name when two-time Open champion Willie Park Jr., writing in Golf Illustrated sometime after the turn of the last century, described it as a pitching surface skimmed down to the size of a postage stamp.The name stuck, and it couldnt be more appropriate.Its a special hole the way that the short par 3s of this world are special, said Colin Montgomerie, no doubt referring to others such as the 155-yard 12th at Augusta National.Theres never been a decent par 3 over 200 yards, in my opinion, built. (At) 123 yards, the expectation raises dramatically into, you are on that tee and you are a professional golfer, its your job and youre expected to hit this green at 123 yards. You could throw it on, really. I wish I could. And thats why its difficult.When the pin is at the back of the green, the Postage Stamp is especially challenging.You have to hit a shot where you know you are going to come up short, or just play to a certain spot, rather than whacking one up there and hoping for the best, Matthew Southgate said. Its one of them where you have to be precise. Ive got my mind on picking a small target and forget where you are, hit a good yardage and dodge the bunkers.On a calm day, it can be easy pickings for the pros.Of course, this being Scotland, the wind is usually blowing.Thats when the misery really begins.Anyone who wants to see potential train wrecks, if its blowing hard into it off the left, that would be the place to sit, Henrik Stenson said. 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