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Troon, United Kingdom
Royal Troon
Troon began with six holes laid out by Charlie Hunter in 1878. George Strath expanded the course to eighteen six years later, establishing a longer route through the dunes beside the Firth of Clyde.
- Courses
- 2 courses
Courses
Course design
A six-hole beginning beside the Clyde
The stone clubhouse designed by Henry Edward Clifford followed in 1888. The Club received its royal designation during its 1978 centenary, a later institutional distinction separate from its original foundation.
Championships
Results and dates 13 editions
The Open Championship
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The 58th Open
Arthur Havers
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The 79th Open
Bobby Locke
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The 91st Open
Arnold Palmer
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The 102nd Open
Tom Weiskopf
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The 111th Open
Tom Watson
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The 118th Open
Mark Calcavecchia
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The 126th Open
Justin Leonard
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The 133rd Open
Todd Hamilton
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The 145th Open
Henrik Stenson
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The 152nd Open
Xander Schauffele
The Amateur Championship
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Gary Wolstenholme
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Alan Dunbar
The Senior Open Championship
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Bruce Vaughan
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Sources and editorial notes7 references
Sources for this story
- Nine Things to Know: Royal Troon PGA TOUR
Main historical account, course development and individual-hole descriptions.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources
- Open Venues | The 14 courses to have hosted The Open
- The Open Records and Statistics The official Champion Golfers register directly enumerates this playing with ordinal, venue, and champion. Historical venue and champion spellings follow that register; any trailing parenthesized win count is occurrence metadata and is not part of the recorded winner name. The official Previous Opens decade record independently cross-checks the reviewed identity. Dates are null because the reviewed register does not state them, and no date was inferred.
- The Open: championship venues The official Open venue directory, historical guide, and named Course evidence bind this continuing venue identity. Historical routing and scoring conditions are not replaced by current scorecard values. Championship venue source: www.theopen.com; Club location source: www.theopen.com. The 2026 Royal Birkdale result is separately verified by the bound final-round report.
- 2012 · The R&A: official Amateur championship results R&A official results book, 2012, PDF pages 349–352. Reported book dates retained in the source facts only until competitive-day boundaries are corroborated. This selected chronology is incomplete.
- The R&A: Championships and International Matches 1984–2012, edited by Peter N. Lewis PDF page 515, printed 514, 2008 entry: The Senior Open Championship.
- 2003 · The R&A: official Amateur championship results R&A official results book, 2003, PDF pages 313–316. Reported book dates retained in the source facts only until competitive-day boundaries are corroborated. This selected chronology is incomplete.