It all started 150 years ago, when the first Open Championship teed off at Prestwick Golf Club. SB Nation’s Ryan Ballangee, who blogs about golf at Waggle Room, examines what makes St. Andrews, the host of this week’s British Open, so special.
2010 British Open Makes Triumphant Return To St. Andrews, The ‘Home Of Golf’
A century and a half. That’s how long has passed since the Open Championship - lovingly distinguished here in the States as the British Open - was first played in 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club. This week, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews celebrates the dawn of this great championship at the “Home of Golf.”
St. Andrews’ Old Course was not even host of the Open until 1873, three years after the modern routing of the course was established. The Open, too, was established by then by the likes of Old Tom Morris, Young Tom Morris and Willie Park. Until the Open moved to the sleepy university town in 1873, only one other person than those three had won the championship.
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