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British Open 2005
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The Royal and Ancient Golf Club has confirmed that the Open Golf Championship will be held at St Andrews in 2005, the 27th time the championship will have been played over the Old Course. The event was first contested at St Andrews in 1873 when local golfer Tom Kidd won the claret jug and the prize-money of £25 with a score of 179 for 2 rounds. By contrast, Tiger Woods won £500,000 for winning the Open in 2000!
Muirfield near Edinburgh hosted the championship in 2002, followed in 2003 by Royal St George's and returns to Royal Troon for 2004. After St Andrews in 2005 the Open returns to Royal Liverpool after an absence of 39 years, when Roberto de Vicenzo from Argentina was the victor. Dropped from the rota after 1967 the course has now been lengthened to 7200 yards. The acquisition of land by the club for the tented village and TV compound etc, together with improved transport links, have also played their part.
Carnoustie and Royal Birkdale are likely to be revisited but official announcements have yet to be made. Turnberry is also in the running pending a review of access and traffic management problems that prevented it getting the 2004 event. Slim hopes of taking the Open to the superb courses of Royal Co Down and Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland have apparently been discounted, for the foreseeable future anyway.
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