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Tournament Name | 2009 Open Championship |
Dates | 16 - 19 July 2009 |
Location | Scotland Ayrshire, Scotland |
Course | Ailsa Course, Turnberry |
Tour | PGA TourPGA European Tour Japan Golf Tour |
Par | 70 |
Yardage | 7,204 |
Field | 156 players, 73 after cut |
Cut | 144 (+4) |
Purse | £4,200,000 |
Winners Share | £750,000 -866,558 $1,221,005 |
Champion | Stewart Cink |
Score | 278 (−2), playoff |
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The 2009 Open Championship was the 138th Open Championship, one of the four major golf championships, and was played from 16 - 19 July at the Turnberry Resort, in Ayrshire, Scotland. It was the fourth time The Open Championship had been played at Turnberry. The previous winners of the tournament there were Tom Watson in 1977, Greg Norman in 1986, and Nick Price in 1994.
The championship was won by Stewart Cink, who claimed his first major championship after a four-hole playoff with 59 year-old Tom Watson, having not held the outright lead during regulation play. Watson had the chance to win his sixth Open and become the oldest major champion in history during regulation play, but was unable to make par on the final hole to drop into a tie with Cink.
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