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Thu, Jul 16 - Sun, Jul 19
Ailsa Course, Turnberry Golf Resort
South Ayrshire, Scotland |
The Ailsa Course is currently ranked as Britain’s number one golf course by two leading golf publications, and is consistently rated within the world’s best. After heavy use as an airfield during the war — the runway can still be seen on the image below — golf course architect, Mackenzie Ross, was commissioned to redesign the Ailsa and it re-opened as the spectacular links you can see today in 1951.
Whichever way you look at the Ailsa Course, it is both spectacular and dramatic in every sense. Whether you're staring down the narrowest of fairways with bunkers either side, or contemplating a 200-yard carry over the rocks to reach a distant target, the course will favor those that make the right decisions in all conditions.
The Ailsa has been closed since November to give greenkeeping staff the opportunity to make improvements to the course which, as well as adding another 247 yards, will serve to place more emphasis on well thought-out and accurate shot-making.
The Ailsa hosted its first Open in 1977 and produced arguably the best Major championship finish that has ever been seen. Tom Watson beat Jack Nicklaus by one shot in a contest which would become known at the "Duel in the Sun." From that moment on, Turnberry, and its Ailsa Course, would retain a place in the heart of every golf fan.
Turnberry is a golf resort on the coast of the outer Firth of Clyde in southwestern Scotland. Located in South Ayrshire on the rugged coast, it comprises three links golf courses, a golf academy, a five-star hotel built in 1906, as well as lodge and cottage accommodations. The prominent rock island Ailsa Craig is readily visible to the west.
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