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The Open Championship
In 2009 the biggest names in golf returned to Turnberry’s Ailsa course for the 138th Open Championship.
With spectacular views sweeping across the Irish Sea to the Ailsa Craig, the Isle of Arran and the Mull of Kintyre with the picturesque lighthouse on the horizon, the Ailsa course has and continues to provide a magnificent and memorable setting for championship golf, reinforcing Turnberry’s reputation as one of the greatest Open Championship venues.
The Open Championship came to Turnberry for the first time in 1977 and it proved to be the most memorable major championship in history with perfect weather and the two best players in the world battling it out over four days. Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson carded identical scores of 68, 70 and 65 for the first three rounds and on the final day as they came to the 18th tee, Tom Watson had a one shot lead over his great rival. Nicklaus’s drive leaked right, ending up next to a gorse bush, Watson found the fairway with a one iron. His second shot with a seven iron finished two feet from the hole, however it wasn’t over, as somehow Nicklaus managed to find the edge of the green with an 8 iron. He then holed from 40 feet for a birdie three, requiring Watson to hole out to win his second Open Championship, which he duly did.
The 1977 Open Championship famously became known as the “duel in the sun” and to this day is arguably the greatest ever major championship.