NEW COURSES
Blue Course, the site of tournament play, was designed by Devereux Emmet and has been renovated over the years by numerous architects, including Robert Trent Jones, Sr. in 1962 and his son, Rees, in 1989 and 2006. The Blue Course is routinely ranked in Golf Digest’s authori- tative “100 Greatest Courses in America,” where it placed 66th in 2009-2010. Historically, the Blue Course has been
somewhat controversial because the 18th hole was a par-3, leading championship officials to experiment with using holes from the Gold Course. Finally, Rees Jones was brought in to remedy the situation. He designed a new par-3, which now plays in the opposite direction to the old 18th. The new hole now plays as No. 10, while the routing was altered so the original par-4 17th, which many considered one of the strongest holes on the course, is now the home hole. As you might expect, Congressional
has had many prominent members over the years, including former Presidents William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gerald R. Ford.
Royal St. George’s welcomes the British Open for 14th time Royal St. George’s Golf Club in Sandwich, England dates back to 1887, when it was founded and designed by Dr. Laidlaw Purves of the Royal Wimbledon Golf Club. The club was granted royal status by King Edward VII in 1902. In 1894, it became the first club outside
Scotland to host the British Open. Past champions include Ben Curtis, Greg Norman, Sandy Lyle, Bill Rogers, Bobby Locke, Reg Whitcombe, Henry Cotton, Walter Hagen twice, Harry Vardon twice, Jack White and J.H. Taylor. Rodgers, Norman and Curtis are the only winners to break par. It has also hosted 13 British
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Amateurs. The course is set over rolling linksland
and challenges players with many blind or partially blind shots, although not as many as there were prior to the 1970s, when Frank Pennick created three new holes and new tees on two other holes. Incidentally, author Ian Fleming referenced Royal St. George’s (under the name “Royal St. Mark’s”) in his 1959 novel, Goldfinger. Royal St. George’s placed 16th on Golf
Digest’s 2007-2008 ranking of the “100 Best Courses Outside the United States.”
RBC Canadian Open returns to Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club The Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club dates back to 1911, when it was formed as the Shaughnessy Heights Golf Course. The first nine opened that April and the second nine the following year. In 1913, following their loss to United
States amateur Francis Ouimet in the U.S. Open, England’s Harry Vardon and Ted Ray played a match at the course as part of their extensive North American exhibition tour. Vardon’s 68 and Ray’s 69 both broke the course record and for their efforts, the pair was paid the generous sum of $400. In 1923, President Warren G. Harding
A view of the 18th hole at the Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club.
played a round of golf at Shaughnessy. It proved to be a historic round since it was his last—he died soon after from a heart attack. In 1956, the Canadian Pacific Railroad,
which had been leasing the land to the club, decided to re-take the property and turn it into a real-estate development. Four years later, the Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club opened on its present site. The current 7,071-yard, par-72
parkland course hosted C.W. Congdon’s Canadian Open victory in 1948. In 1966 it hosted the Canadian Open won by Don Massengale. The 2005 Bell Canadian Open was won by PGA TOUR veteran Mark Calcavecchia, who shot 5- under 275 to outlast Ryan Moore and Ben Crane by a single stroke. The 2005 event marked the return of Canada’s national Open championship to western Canada for the first time in the nearly 40 years dating back to Massengale’s 1966 victory. “Shaughnessy is the type of old-style
traditional golf course that players on TOUR absolutely love to play,” said Calcavecchia. “I remember back in 2005, the players couldn’t say enough about how great the golf course was and a lot of us have wondered when the event might get back out there. I think
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