Carnoustie, United Kingdom
Carnoustie
Carnoustie’s parish records mention golf in 1560, long before the formation of Carnoustie Golf Club in 1839. In 1892 the town council acquired the links to preserve their golfing use.1
- Location
- Carnoustie, United Kingdom
- Courses
- 3 courses
A town’s links held for golf
The public landscape has supported several local clubs. Its governance and customs also changed: a 1939 vote rejected Sunday golf, but play on Sundays was finally permitted in 1949.1
Courses
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Championships
Results and dates 8 editions
The Open Championship
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Tommy Armour
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Henry Cotton
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Ben Hogan
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Gary Player
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Tom Watson
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Paul Lawrie
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Padraig Harrington
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Francesco Molinari
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Sources and editorial notes4 references
Sources for this story
- Heritage Timeline Carnoustie Golf Links
Main historical account, course development and individual-hole descriptions.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources
- Carnoustie Golf Links
- 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.