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Royal Troon Golf Club, Craigend Road, Troon, KA10 6EP. Website by 18Players
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The players duly arrived at Royal Troon in 1982. The hot favourite, inevitably, was Tom Watson, already a three-time Open champion in 1975, 1977 and 1980, at Carnoustie, Turnberry and Muirfield respectively.
2004. The sixth-successive American champion at Royal Troon, and in truth the least heralded winner here since Arthur Havers some 81 years earlier, was Todd Hamilton.
America’s dominance at Royal Troon finally came to an end in 2016 – but only thanks to one of the great Open Championship rounds from Henrik Stenson. Sunday quickly became a two-horse race – Royal Troon’s very own version of Turnberry’s famous 1977 Duel in the Sun.
The railway runs parallel to the hole on the right for its entire length, with a hooked drive almost certainly lost in thick gorse. A long second shot waits, with the railway just a few yards off the green to the right. The eleventh was rated the most difficult hole in the 1997 Open Championship. Hole 11: The Railway - Old Course, Royal Troon ...
Cruising home with a closing 69 meant that he beat the Australian Nagle by six strokes with Rodgers and Brian Huggett a further seven adrift in third place. Royal Troon Golf Club, Craigend Road, Troon, KA10 6EP. Website by 18Players.
Hole Overview. At one time a wooded area inhabited by a number of foxes. However, the woods have mostly gone and only the occasional fox remains. The twelfth is a slight dog-leg with the drive played over a rise into the narrow neck of the fairway.
There was to be yet more American success at Royal Troon in 1997, when Justin Leonard eventually overcame the home favourite, Darren Clarke, and Sweden’s Jesper Parnevik in the final round. Playing in his first Open as a professional, the reigning Masters champion Tiger Woods was very much the centre of attention throughout the week.
