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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 .
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 ]
Turnberry has hosted some of the greatest moments in golf history, from Jack Nicklaus' and Tom Watson's "Duel in the Sun" in 1977 to Watson's heartbreaking near-miss, a playoff loss to Stewart ...
Stewart Ernest Cink (born May 21, 1973) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He won the 2009 Open Championship, defeating Tom Watson in a four-hole aggregate playoff. He spent over 40 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking from 2004 to 2009, reaching a career best ranking of 5th in 2008. [2] [3]
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]
LIV Golf will hold a tournament next Aug. 4-6 in West Virginia. There are five tournaments left on the schedule. LIV Golf’s team championship was initially scheduled to take place in Jeddah ...