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The year the golf course was originally built is shown in parentheses. Prestwick Golf Club (1851): [126] Prestwick is The Open's original venue, and hosted 24 Opens in all, including the first 12. [68] Old Tom Morris designed the original 12 hole course, [126] but it was subsequently redesigned and expanded to be an 18-hole course in 1882. [127]
The course hosted a further championship in 1920, but further attempts to host the Championship in 1938 and 1949 were thwarted by bad weather and the course was dropped from the rota. [9] Royal Troon , Royal Lytham & St Annes and Carnoustie held the Open Championship for the first time in 1923 , 1926 and 1931 respectively.
The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open national championship of golf in the United States. It is the third of the four men's major golf championships, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour.
Prestwick is famous as the initial originator and sponsor of The Open Championship, the oldest of golf's four major championships.Discussion of The Open's future concept began soon after the 1859 death of Allan Robertson, longtime professional at St Andrews, who had been considered supreme for some 20 years until his death; the concept of the Open was to find the new 'champion golfer'.
The AP Story: “The open golf championship of the United States was won today by Willie Smith with a total for the 72 holes of 315 strokes after two days of the hardest kind of play.
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The club, which now has a total of 45 holes, was founded in 1878, initially with five holes. It lies adjacent to the Firth of Clyde. George Strath was appointed in 1881 as the club's first golf professional, [5] and together with 1882 Open champion Willie Fernie, designed the original course, expanding it to 18 holes by 1888. [6]
Golf architect Gil Hanse brought the Los Angeles Country Club course closer to the original design of George C. Thomas in a restoration ahead of the U.S. Open.