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The 2010 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and was held from 15 to 18 July over the Old Course at St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. It was the 150th anniversary of the founding of The Open in 1860, [2] and the 28th time The Open was played at St Andrews. Usually branded with the edition of the championship (for example, the ...
Royal Liverpool Golf Club hosted the event for the first time in 1897. Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club became the next course to host the event in 1909. 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]
It was the first Senior Open Championship played at the course and the eighth Senior Open Championship played as a senior major championship. World Golf Hall of Fame member Bernhard Langer won by one stroke over 1995 U.S. Open champion Corey Pavin. The 2010 event was Langer's first senior major championship victory.
The Old Course at St Andrews is regarded as the oldest golf course in the world, and winning the Open there is widely considered to be one of the pinnacles of achievement in golf. [67] Given the special status of the Old Course, the Open is generally played there once every five years in the modern era, much more frequently than the other ...
13. Winners of multiple PGA Tour events between the end of the 2009 U.S. Open and the start of the 2010 U.S. Open 14. Top 5 from the 2010 European Tour Race to Dubai through May 24, 2010 (the BMW PGA Championship) Charl Schwartzel (17) 15. Top 2 on the 2009 Japan Golf Tour official money list, provided they are within the top 75 point leaders ...
The course borders on Archerfield Wood, which features in "The Pavilion on the Links", the short story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Jack Nicklaus won three Open Championships, the first at Muirfield in 1966, which completed the first of his three career grand slams. Nicklaus has described Muirfield as "the best golf course in Britain."
The 2010 PGA Championship was the 92nd PGA Championship, played August 12–15 at the Straits Course of the Whistling Straits complex in Haven, Wisconsin (postal address Kohler). Martin Kaymer won his first major championship in a three-hole playoff over Bubba Watson . [ 1 ]
26 July - Shin took back the number 1 position in the Women's World Golf Rankings after her win in the Evian Masters. 16 August - Kerr reclaimed the number 1 position in the Women's World Golf Rankings. 23 August – Miyazato returned to number 1 in the Women's World Golf Rankings after winning the Safeway Classic.