Royal St George's Golf Club
| Royal St George's Golf Club | |
|---|---|
 Green 3 |
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| Place data | |
| Coordinates: | 51 ° 16 '25.9 " N , 1 ° 21' 59.1" E |
| Playable since: | 1887 |
| Architect: | William Laidlaw Purves |
| Par: | 70 |
| Length: | 7204 yards |
| Character: | Left |
The Royal St George's Golf Club is one of the premium golf clubs of the United Kingdom and one of the regular venues for the British Open in the Gulf .
The club is located in a wild dune landscape in the English Sandwich in the county of Kent and was designed by William Laidlaw Purves in 1887 as a competitor to the Scottish St. Andrews . The club was granted royal status in May 1902 by King Edward VII . The sand hills of the first half of the game are considered to be the largest on a venue for The Open Championship .
The novelist Ian Fleming used Royal St. George's under the name "Royal St. Marks" in his 1959 story Goldfinger .
The Open Championship
As the first venue outside Scotland , it has hosted the championship 13 times since 1894.
| year | winner | nationality | Score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Total | |||
| 1894 | John Henry Taylor |
 England
|
84 | 80 | 81 | 81 | 326 |
| 1899 | Harry Vardon |
 jersey
|
76 | 76 | 81 | 77 | 310 |
| 1904 | Jack White |
 Scotland
|
80 | 75 | 72 | 69 | 296 |
| 1911 | Harry Vardon |
jersey
|
74 | 74 | 75 | 80 | 303 |
| 1922 | Walter Hagen |
 United States
|
76 | 73 | 79 | 72 | 300 |
| 1928 | Walter Hagen |
United States
|
75 | 73 | 72 | 72 | 292 |
| 1934 | Henry Cotton |
England
|
67 | 65 | 72 | 79 | 283 |
| 1938 | Reg Whitcombe |
England
|
71 | 71 | 75 | 78 | 295 |
| 1949 | Bobby Locke |
 South Africa
|
69 | 76 | 68 | 70 | 283 |
| 1981 | Bill Rogers |
United States
|
72 | 66 | 67 | 71 | 276 |
| 1985 | Sandy Lyle |
Scotland
|
68 | 71 | 73 | 70 | 282 |
| 1993 | Greg Norman |
 Australia
|
66 | 68 | 69 | 64 | 267 |
| 2003 | Ben Curtis |
United States
|
72 | 72 | 70 | 69 | 283 |
| 2011 | Darren Clarke |
 Northern Ireland
|
68 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 275 |
literature
- R. Laidlaw: The R&A Golfer's Handbook 2010 . Macmillan, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-230-74125-6 .
Web links
- Internet presentation of the club
- Scorecard ( Memento from March 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- Golf Club Atlas Guide ( Memento from December 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Steve Newell: The World Atlas of Golf . Hamlyn, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-600-62190-4 , p. 105.