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OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
IN LIVING MEMORY
THIS MONTH, INDIAN GOLF FANS SHOULD BE LICKING THEIR LIPS IN ANTICIPATION OF THE 149TH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP, THE
ANNUAL BATTLE FOR POSSESSION OF THE CLARET JUG ONE OF THE UNDOUBTED HIGHLIGHTS OF THE GOLFING YEAR.
ut, with the pall of
Coronavirus still hanging
over the UK, and unlike
the US-based ‘Majors’
which have been
postponed until later
in the year, the R&A
took the decision early
on to cancel this year’s Open Championship,
rescheduling it for same time – July – and same
place – Royal St George’s - in the south east of
England.
However, GolfPlus has the next best thing, a
look back at what our UK-based contributor
Mike Wilson considers to have been the
best Open Championship in his long living
memory, starting in the sixties, right through
to last year’s Northern Ireland epic at Royal
Portrush.
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The most recent Open Championship
to date and only the second ever to be staged
over the magni�cent Dunluce Links at the
Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland
will long be remembered even after the mists
of time have clouded many a memory.
The whole package was quite simply,
outstanding, but not just in the normally classy
but sedate manner of the world’s oldest and
most prestigious professional golf tournament.
Royal Portrush 2019 was different, unique a
game-changer in many ways.
Not only was the prodigal son of Northern Irish
golf, Rory McIlroy returning to his roots, but
also local hero Graeme McDowell, who had
cut his teeth on that very course had risen whilst
2011 Open Championship winner, another
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