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The Open Championship is to return to Royal Birkdale from July 17-20, 2008. It will be the ninth Championship to be played over the Lancashire course where Peter Thomson won the first and last of his five Open titles and where Arnold Palmer's victory in 1961 marked the virtual re-birth of golf's oldest championship. More 2008 British Open Information Here!
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BRITISH
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The
British Open Golf Championship will be played over Royal Troon
Golf Club, Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland will host the 133rd Open
Championship in 2004 from the 15th - 18th July. |
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The
Open will return to Royal Troon Golf Course in Ayrshire on
Scotland's west coast in 2004. The oldest of the four major
championships, the "British Open." Last played here
in 1997 when Justin Leonard won his first Open Championship.
The Troon has been the host to a list of champions who have
triumphed at this classic venue. Through the years there have
been many memorable duels over Britain's famous links - none
more so than the Nicklaus v Watson battle at Turnberry in
1977. Since then its roll call of winners includes, Bobby
Locke, Arnold Palmer, Tom Weiskopf, Tom Watson, Mark Calcavecchia
& Justin Leonard. The Royal Troon was also the scene of
the first four-hole play-off in Open history, when Mark Calcavecchia
defeated Wayne Grady and Greg Norman in 1989.
When the 133rd Open returns to Royal Troon, it will be the
8th time the competition has been played on the course. The
first was held here in 1923, Arthur Havers who finished fourth
the previous year at St. Andrews, was to come out on top this
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He
was a PGA Tour rookie who had never cracked the top 10. He
ranked No. 396 in the world ranking. The 26-year-old from
Ohio, who also reached the semi-finals of the World Match
Play championship at Wentworth in October, expects to play
11 events on the European Tour, which will qualify him for
full membership. Curtis - the only player to shoot a sub-par
aggregate - in becoming the first player since Tom Watson
in 1975 to win the Open Championship.
American Ben Curtis won the 132nd Open Golf Championship at
Royal St George’s when he held the world’s best
golfers at bay by shooting a final round of 69 for a one under
par total of 283. |
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Ben
Curtis, who came from nowhere on the final day to
lift the famous Claret Jug at Royal St George's on
a beautiful day in July to become the 132nd British
Open Champion.
Bet On the 133rd British Open Championship
and Open championship odds. |
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Securing
a one stroke victory over European Tour Members Thomas Björn
and Vijay Singh. Both Björn and Singh came so close to
winning the title but the golfing Gods were not on their side.
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The
British Open Championship has been played
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