Word: prestwick
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...most majestic links in the British Isles, this was the first time it had ever hosted an Open. Turnberry will now join the so-called rota of courses where the Open has been held ever since the first championship was conducted in 1860 at Prestwick on the Ayeshire coast. Next year the Open will be played at St. Andrew's, where a handful of erstwhile fox hunters were already indulging in golf when St. Andrews University was founded...
...Wednesday October 17, 1860, a field of eight British professionals teed off at the 12-hole Prestwick course in the quiet fishing town of that name on the Ayshire coast. After three rounds of play, Willie Park was ushered in as the first winner of the British Open with a score of 174, exactly 58 strokes ahead of the last place finisher...
Birkdale, in the mold of Prestwick where the first Open was held, is an unkempt links-land course whittled by the elements, running along the railway line between Liverpool and Southport. The dunes that straddle the fairways and perpetually tearing winds along with four par fives in the last six holes exact the utmost of poise, resilience and control from the field...
Shelepin hastily summoned reporters to Prestwick Airport as he prepared to leave. He claimed that the demonstrations against him "did not reflect the interests of the English working class and its unions." He blamed the protests on the Jews. Contending that the U.S.S.R. had fought World War II for the sake of Jews, he charged that they are now "ungrateful enemies of détente." In fact, most demonstrators were Protestant Britons or Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian refugees...