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The 2009 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 138th Open Championship, held from 16–19 July at the Ailsa Course of the Turnberry Resort, in Ayrshire, Scotland. Stewart Cink won his only major championship after a four-hole playoff with Tom Watson .
For a complete list of European Tour results see 2009 European Tour. Team events. 24–27 September: Vivendi Trophy with Seve Ballesteros - Team Great Britain & Ireland defeated Team Continental Europe 16½–11½. This was the fifth consecutive win for Team GB&I. 8–11 October: Presidents Cup - The U.S. Team defeated the International Team ...
It has also hosted many other important golf tournaments, including the Women's British Open in 2002, the Walker Cup in 1963, the Amateur Championship in 1961, 1983, 1996, and 2008, and the Senior Open Championship on seven occasions, 1987–90, 2003, 2006, and 2012. The Ailsa Course is featured in the 2004 golf video game Tiger Woods PGA Tour ...
The championship has been held outside Scotland and England twice, in 1951 and 2019; Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland was the venue for both tournaments. [13] Turnberry became the most recent course to have hosted the Championship for the first time, when it held the 1977 Open Championship . [ 14 ]
In addition, this championship is conducted by The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (R&A). The championship was not held in 1871 due to a disagreement over a new trophy, [ 3 ] from 1915 to 1919 and from 1940 to 1945 due to the First and Second World Wars respectively, and in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
Republican presidential candidate Trump's Turnberry course fell back into the red last year, losing 1.7 million pounds ($2.22 million) before tax compared with a profit of 570,00 pounds in 2022.
Among the sites owned by Leisurecorp are PGA European Tour venues Pearl Valley Golf Estates in South Africa, [2] [3] and Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai. It bought the Turnberry Resort in Scotland in October 2008, which hosted the 2009 Open Championship, [1] [4] and sold it to Donald Trump in April 2014. [5]
The 2012 Senior Open Championship was a senior major golf championship and the 26th Senior Open Championship, held on 26–29 July at Turnberry Golf Resort in South Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. It was the 10th Senior Open Championship played as a senior major championship. [1] Fred Couples won two strokes ahead of Gary Hallberg. It was ...