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Southport, England
• Host of the 2008 Open Championship
• Founded in 1889; received \"Royal\" status in 1951
• Eight Open Championships have been played at Royal Birkdale (1954, 1961, 1965, 1971, 1976, 1983, 1991, 1998)
• Only club in the Open rotation that has never had a champion from the United Kingdom";
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South Ayrshire, Scotland
• Will host the Open Championship in 2009
• The Westin Turnberry Resort, a five-star hotel, includes three golf courses: the 18-hole Kintyre Course, nine-hole Arran Course and famed 18-hole Ailsa Course
• In 2007, the Ailsa Course was ranked eighth in Golf Digest's \"100 Best Golf Courses Outside the United States\" list
• Has hosted The Open Championship three times (1977, 1986, 1994)";
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St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland
• Will host the Open Championship in 2010
• With golf being played on the course back in the 15th century, St. Andrews Links is the oldest course in the world
• St. Andrews Links has six public courses: the nine-hole Balgove and the 18-hole Castle, Eden, Jubilee, Strathtyrum, New and Old Courses
• Seven greens on the Old Course are shared by two holes each; only the 1st, 9th, 17th and 18th holes have their own greens
• Has hosted The Open Championship 27 times (1873, 1876, 1879, 1882, 1885, 1888, 1891, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1921, 1927, 1933, 1939, 1946, 1955, 1957, 1960, 1964, 1970, 1978, 1984, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005)
• Regarded as the \"home of golf\"
• Ranked as the greatest golf course outside the United States by Golf Digest
• Notable sights on the Old Course include the Royal and Ancient Golf Clubhouse, the road hole bunker at the 17th hole and the bridge over the Swilken Burn";
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Sandwich, Kent, England
• Will host the Open Championship in 2011
• Features the deepest bunker in championship golf
• Established in 1887, it was given \"Royal\" status in 1902 by King Edward VII
• Has hosted The Open Championship 13 times since 1894 (1894, 1899, 1904, 1911, 1922, 1928, 1934, 1938, 1949, 1981, 1985, 1993, 2003)
• Only three Open winners -- Bill Rogers in 1981, Greg Norman in 1993 and Ben Curtis in 2003 -- have finished under par after 72 holes";
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Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire, England
• Will host the Open Championship in 2012
• Founded in 1886
• Features 198 bunkers
• The only course in the Open Championship rotation to start with a par 3 hole
• Ten Open Championships have been played on the course (1926, 1952, 1958, 1963, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1988, 1996, 2001)";
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Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland
• Has hosted The Open Championship seven times (1931, 1937, 1953, 1968, 1975, 1999, 2007)
• The Carnoustie Golf Links contains three courses: Championship, The Burnside and Buddon Links
• Notable Championship course features include the Barry Burn
• The last three Open Championships played at Carnoustie each ended in playoffs
• Nicknamed \"Car-nasty\" ";
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Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland
• Fifteen Open Championships have been played at Muirfield (1892, 1896, 1901, 1906, 1912, 1929, 1935, 1948, 1959, 1966, 1972, 1980, 1987, 1992, 2002)
• Assuming the wind direction remains the same throughout a round, every hole on the course has a different apparent wind direction from the tee
• The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, the oldest golf club in the world, was founded in 1744 and moved to Muirfield in 1891
• The only club to have hosted the Open, the Amateur, the Mid Amateur, the Ryder Cup, the Walker Cup and the Curtis Cup";
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Troon, South Ayrshire, Scotland
• Has hosted The Open Championship eight times (1923, 1950, 1962, 1973, 1982, 1989, 1997, 2004)
• Was founded in 1878
• Royal Troon Golf Club has three courses: the Old Course, Portland Course and Craigend Course
• The Old Course features the shortest hole in Open Championship golf: the par-3 8th hole is called the \"Postage Stamp\" and is just 123 yards in length
• The Old Course features the longest hole in Open Championship golf: the par-5 6th is 601 yards long";
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Hoylake, Merseyside, England
• Also known as Hoylake, the town in which its clubhouse is located
• Eleven Open Championships have been played at Hoylake (1897, 1902, 1907, 1913, 1924, 1930, 1936, 1947, 1956, 1967, 2006)
• Founded in 1869; received \"Royal\" status in 1871";
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Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland
• Hosted The Open Championship 24 times before 1925, when it dropped out of the rotation (1860-1870, 1872, 1875, 1878, 1881, 1884, 1887, 1890, 1893, 1898, 1903, 1908, 1914, 1925)
• Founded in 1851
• Features the natural obstacle of Pow Burn";
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East Lothian, Scotland
• The site of six Open Championships (1874, 1877, 1880, 1883, 1886, 1889)
• May be the oldest golf course in the world on which golf has been continuously played
• The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers were once based at Musselburgh
• Still has just nine holes";
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Deal, Kent, England
• Two Open Championships have been played on the course (1909, 1920)
• Two more Open Championships were scheduled to be played at Royal Cinque Ports, but flooding from extremely high tides forced their relocation in both 1938 and 1948
• Founded in 1892
• With all of the sand dunes on the course, virtually no fairway or tee is completely flat";
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Sandwich, Kent, England
• Hosted The Open Championship just once, in 1932
• One of only two clubs to host The Open once
• Original 18-hole course completed in 1906; the current 27-hole layout was adopted in 1950
• Is an Open Championship Final Qualifying course
• Phil Mickelson and Gary Player are both honorary life members at the club";
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County Antrim, Northern Ireland
• Hosted The Open Championship just once, in 1951
• One of only two clubs to host The Open once
• Founded in 1888; achieved \"Royal\" status in 1892
• Ranked by Golf Digest as the third best course outside the United States";
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