{"id":12469,"date":"2012-07-16T12:54:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T10:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/golf-british-open-course-at-royal-lytham-st-annes-hole-by-hole\/"},"modified":"2012-07-16T12:54:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T10:54:20","slug":"golf-british-open-course-at-royal-lytham-st-annes-hole-by-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-british-open-course-at-royal-lytham-st-annes-hole-by-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-British Open course at Royal Lytham &amp; St Annes hole by hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Tom Pilcher<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 16<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; The British<br \/>\nOpen returns to Royal Lytham  St Annes for an 11th time when<br \/>\nthe 141st championship begins on Thursday in Lancashire,<br \/>\nEngland.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lytham, flanked by a railway line and suburban houses, is<br \/>\nnot considered the most beautiful of the many Open venues, most<br \/>\nrecently staging the event in 2001 when American David Duval<br \/>\nclinched his only major championship.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>American amateur Bobby Jones won the first Open to be held<br \/>\nat Lytham in 1926 when he became the only champion to have to<br \/>\npay to play.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jones, who won all four majors in 1930 to complete the<br \/>\n&#8216;Grand Slam&#8217;, forgot his competitor&#8217;s ticket and was not<br \/>\nrecognised despite being second in the tournament after three<br \/>\nrounds, but calmly paid an entrance fee before claiming the<br \/>\nfirst of his three Opens.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South African Bobby Locke, who fought with his country&#8217;s air<br \/>\nforce during World War Two, ran out the winner in 1952 when the<br \/>\nOpen returned to Lytham.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other champions include Australia&#8217;s Peter Thomson, who<br \/>\nbagged his fourth of five Open titles in 1958, nine-times major<br \/>\nwinner Gary Player of South Africa in 1974, Seve Ballesteros in<br \/>\n1979 and 1988 and Tom Lehmann in 1996.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As golf courses worldwide undergo more and more development<br \/>\nin the modern era, Lytham is a refreshingly undisturbed course<br \/>\nwith only a few changes since the club was founded in 1886 and<br \/>\nthe present course constructed in 1897.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Several holes have been lengthened for this year&#8217;s Open to<br \/>\nprovide more of a test, while 206 bunkers dotted in the tight<br \/>\nfairways and around the greens will make accurate play key.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tom Pilcher LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 16 (Reuters) &#8211; The British Open returns to Royal Lytham St Annes for an 11th time when the 141st championship begins on Thursday in Lancashire, England. Lytham, flanked by a railway line and suburban houses, is not considered the most beautiful of the many Open venues, most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-12469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}