British Open Venues for 2009 and 2010
The Open Championship crosses England's northern border in 2009 to return to its Scottish roots. The British Open venues for 2009 and 2010 will be Turnberry Ailsa Golf Course and the Old Course at St Andrews.
The 138th Open Championship at Turnberry Ailsa in Ayrshire, Scotland
The British Open returns to Scotland in 2009, when Turnberry Ailsa Golf Course hosts the Open Championship between July 16 and 19.
Built as a luxury hotel and golf course development by the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company in 1903, Turnberry is situated in South Ayrshire, on Scotland's Atlantic coastline. It became a landing strip for planes of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War and for anti-submarine and convoy protection patrols during the World War II.
An extensive two-year rebuilding programme preceded the opening of the stunning, redesigned Ailsa links course in 1951.
In 1977 Turnberry played host to the first of its three Open Championships, in which Jack Nicklaus played the two final rounds in 65 and 66, losing by a single shot to Tom Watson in a dramatic head-to-head contest.
The British Open returned to the Ailsa course in 1986, when Greg Norman claimed his first major title, and in 1994, when the crowd witnessed a dramatic finish as Nick Price holed a gargantuan eagle putt on the 17th green to overcome Jesper Parnevik, who dropped a shot at the last.
The 139th Open Championship at St Andrews, Fife
The 150th anniversary of The Open Championship will be marked by a return to the exalted venue at St Andrews in 2010. This will be the 28th British Open to be played over the Old Course since 1873.
Although the course has been lengthened with the creation of new tees over the past decade, it is essentially unchanged from the days of Old Tom Morris. Golf has been played over this same stretch of links land for more than 600 years.
All the great names in golf have trodden the fairways of St Andrews, with some of golf's biggest legends carrying off the famous silver claret jug from this historic venue on Scotland's east coast.
We hope you now know all you need to know about the British Open venues for 2009 and 2010, but if not, follow the links above to visit the sites for these two prestigious golf clubs.
