 Tom Watson's Turnberry triumph |
Turnberry will host the 2009 Open Championship, the R&A has announced. It will be the fourth time Turnberry has hosted The Open. The venue is famous for the 1977 Duel in the Sun between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus.
Watson, Greg Norman in 1986 and Nick Price in 1994 were all Open winners on the dramatic Ayrshire links.
The R&A's David Hill said: "There has never been any doubt that The Open would return to Turnberry, one of our very best links courses."
Road access to the course had been an ongoing concern, but that issue will now be resolved.
"Before reaching that decision we had to be convinced that every aspect of our forward planning process was in place to ensure a successful return to Turnberry in 2009," added Hill.
"One element was a traffic management scheme to ease congestion and since South Ayrshire Council have commenced construction of a road link we now have in place the final piece of the jigsaw."
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