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16 - 19 July 2009

2009 BRITISH OPEN

The 138th Open Championship

TURNBERRY RESORT
AYRSHIRE, SCOTLAND
JULY 16th – 19th, 2009

The 138th British Open gets underway at the Ailsa Course at Turnberry on 16th July 2009 and will conclude on the 19th.

This will be the fourth time the Turnberry venue has hosted the 'Open' but only the first time since 1994, when it was won by Nick Price, after a great battle with Jesper Parnevik. The venue is most famous for the 1977 Duel in the Sun between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus and arguably the greatest 36 hole drama between two contestants in major championship golf. The famous “duel in the sun” was settled by a single shot: Watson 65-65; Nicklaus 65-66!

The British Open Championship takes place in the United Kingdom and the only major championship that is not played on U.S. Soil. It is also referred to as the Open Championship. The British Open is the eldest of the Four Major Golf Tournaments and is the third one played during the calendar year. The US Masters takes place in April, the US Open in June and the PGA Championship takes place in August.

Some of the most notable winners of the British Open include Bobby Jones - the last amateur to win, Harry Vardon, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods and Reigning Champion Padraig Harrington will be looking to equal the record of the great Australian Peter Thompson, by winning the Claret Jug for the third consecutive time.

The winner of the British Open receives a generous prize of more than $8.3 million and receives the coveted Golf Champion Trophy, also known as the Claret Jug, awarded since 1871. While most players would play in this event for free because of its prestige, it doesn’t hurt that the British Open, also has largest purse in golf.

British Open Golf Playoff

At the end of 72 holes, if golfers are tied, players play a four-hole playoff beginning with the 1st hole, then the 16th through 18th. If still tied, the players repeat the 18th hole until a champion emerges.

British Open betting has come to symbolize through the years what many sports fans would call the biggest event in golf. And there is no way to better maximize the experience than by playing the British Open golf odds.

The Ailsa Course opens with three par-4s, but then moves to a short par-3 featuring a water hazard that may impact the British Open odds. The front nine only includes one par-5 (hole 7), but it is a challenging 538 yards that may also directly influence the British Open odds. In other words, golfers with all sorts of different abilities may do well on this course and deserve a better look, when checking out the British Open golf odds.

The back nine is similarly varied, and features a short par-3 hole of only 175 yards (hole 11) and then a 559-yard hole for hole 17. Bettors analyzing the British Open golf odds should note that the final three holes are all over 450 yards, so it will take a strong driver to win the tournament at the very end. It can be difficult when handicapping the British Open golf odds to predict how different golfers will respond to each hole, so it is important to carefully watch the first round of each golfer one is considering in the British Open golf odds.

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2009 British Open Schedule

Future British Open Golf Championships

2009 July 16-19 Ailsa Course, Turnberry, Ayrshire

2011 Royal St George’s

2012 Royal Lytham & St Annes

British Open Golf Odds and History

The British Open is the oldest of the four major championships in men's golf. Each year the event is hosted by one of several prestigious golf clubs in Britain; however, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (R&A) administers The Open regardless of its site.

It is always played on a links course.The British Open Championship is played in July and is the third major to take place each year, after The Masters Tournament and the U.S. Open, but before the PGA Championship. It has been an official event on the PGA TOUR since 1995, which means that the prize money won in the Open by PGA Tour members is included on the official money list. In addition, all Open Championships before that date have been retrospectively classified as PGA Tour wins and the list of leading winners on the PGA Tour has been adjusted to reflect this.

British Open trophy called the "Claret Jug

When the Championship began, the winner was presented with the Challenge Belt, now the Claret Jug or the proper name, The Golf Champion Trophy, is presented to each year's winner of The Open Championship.

The trophy awarded to the winner of The Open Championship is officially known as the Championship Cup, but it is much more commonly called the "Claret Jug" because, well, it's a claret jug.

Claret is a dry red wine produced in the famous French winemaking region of Bordeaux. The British Open trophy was made in the style of silver jugs used to serve claret at 19th Century gatherings.

But the winner of The Open Championship hasn't always received the Claret Jug as the trophy. The first handful of winners were awarded a belt. That's right, a belt. Or "Challenge Belt," as it was designated at the time.

The first Open Championship was played in 1860 at Prestwick (now called Royal Prestwick, it's in Troon, Scotland, just down the road from Royal Troon), and that year also marked the first awarding of the belt.

The belt was made of a wide, red Morocco leather and was adorned with silver buckles and emblems.

1873 winner - Tom Kidd - was the first to be awarded the Claret Jug.

That original Claret Jug from 1873 has permanently resided at the R&A since 1927. The trophy that is presented to the British Open winner each year is a copy of the original, which the winner gets to keep for a year before returning it to the R&A to be passed on to the next champion.

2009 British Open Results

Stewart Cink is the new Open champion, snatching the title from the hands of Tom Watson in a four-hole play off after they tied on a two-under-par total of 278.

Watson, who had turned the clock back all week, ran out of time in his bid to win his sixth Open over the same course where he won his second in 1977. The dream ended in anti-climatic fashion as the 59-year-old five-time champion wearied over the extra holes and destroyed his chances when he took two shots to force himself clear of the thick rough to the left of the 17th fairway. As they walked off that green he trailed 36-year-old Cink by four shots.

The final hole was a formality. Watson blocked his tee shot into the crowd and was in rough short of the green in two. Cink hit two perfect shots to less then three feet and tapped in the winning putt. Watson, sadly, trailed by six shots.

2008 British Open Results

Padraig Harrington winner, Ian Poulter second

The 2008 British Open winner is Padraig Harrington, beating Ian Poulter to the top of the leaderboard results. Padraig Harrington, the winner f last year's Open. completed a 69 Round 4 at the British Open today, more than enough to secure the victory with 3 over par total 283. Ian Polter seemed to be the perfect contender to the British Open winner, but mistakes early in the round robbed 32-year-old Poulter. Padraig Harrington, however, wasted no strokes and the Irishman became the winner of the 2008 British Open, his second in a row.

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