Birthplace of the Open Prestwick Golf Club Held the First 12 Open Championships, and 24 in All
GOLF ILLUSTRATED Birthplace of The Open Prestwick Golf Club held the first 12 Open Championships, and 24 in all. It is also one of the most eccentric, traditional and revered links in the world. Words Jock Howard Photography Iain Forrest, Mark Alexander and David Cannon 20 GOLF ILLUSTRATED he great British golf course lauding Prestwick than in singing the praises architect, Mackenzie Ross, of any other course in Christendom,” he famously said that a great golf wrote. “One might almost say that Prestwick hole is one which ‘puts a has no enemies. To say of a human being Tquestion mark into the player’s mind when that he has no enemies is almost to insinuate he arrives on the tee to play it’. I can’t think that he is just a little bit colourless and insipid; of a course which has more question marks but those adjectives have certainly no than Prestwick Golf Club. application to Prestwick, which has a very As if to illustrate this point, it is a childish decided character of its own.” but hugely enjoyable exercise to witness a In many ways, Prestwick is the most classic group of Americans, who have never played of all the classic courses in the British Isles. It Prestwick before, arrive for the first time on is old-fashioned, eccentric, traditional links the tee of the 3rd, otherwise known as golf at its very best, with all the inherent Cardinal. This is that extraordinarily quirks and characteristics which this implies. eccentric par 5, which bends around to the Many of the fairways look like moonscapes; right, following the line of the Pow Burn, and with humps, bumps and hollows all over the features the devilish, sleeper-faced Cardinal place.
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