The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews have announced that the 136th open Championship will be held at Carnoustie from 19th - 22nd July 2007.
The Open Championship returns to Carnoustie Golf Links, in July 2007 for the first time since 1999 when the worlds' greatest golfers will gather to do battle for the famous Claret Jug.
The Carnoustie Championship course has witnessed some magnificent moments of golfing history, including the victory of Ben Hogan in 1953 - his only visit to the Open Championship.
This course has been described as the 'supreme test', and was praised by Walter Hagan as the greatest golf course in the British Isles and one of the top three in the world. It is a mighty links course, the layout of which rewards good play and punishes poor play severely. What makes it so great is its vastness and length, that can be stretched to over 7,400 yards, and the scale of severity of its hazards.
One of the course signature holes at Carnoustie is the 14th hole, 'Spectacles' which is a par 5 from the medal tees. The hole gets its name from the two massive bunkers which threaten the approach shot to the green.
Carnoustie is one of the three golf courses used for the Dunhill Links championship, alongside Kingsbarns Links and the Old Course, St Andrews.
Carnoustie, much regarded as the most demanding course on the Open rota has previously seen triumphs by Tommy Armour, Henry Cotton, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Tom Watson and most recently by Paul Lawrie in 1999. Carnoustie's reputation remained intact with Lawrie's winning total standing at six over par!
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews have announced that the 137th Open Championship will be held at Royal Birkdale Golf Club from 17th - 20th July 2008. Many people believed that Turnberry would be the chosen host for the 2007 Open as it has not staged the event since Nick Price won there in 1994. However, the Royal and Ancient have made Carnoustie their choice which will be sure to test the world's finest golfers to their limit. View 2007 British Open Odds
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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.
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.
On an emotional final day at Royal Liverpool, Tiger Woods turned aside all comers and beat Chris DiMarco by two strokes to win his second consecutive British Open.
The victory makes it 11 majors in Tiger's bag now, as he continues to inch closer to the all-time record for majors held by Jack Nicklaus.
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