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.
- Courses
- 3 courses
Courses
Course design
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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.
Championships
Results and dates 10 editions
The Open Championship
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The 66th Open
Tommy Armour
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The 72nd Open
Henry Cotton
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The 82nd Open
Ben Hogan
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The 97th Open
Gary Player
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The 104th Open
Tom Watson
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The 128th Open
Paul Lawrie
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The 136th Open
Padraig Harrington
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The 147th Open
Francesco Molinari
The Amateur Championship
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Stephen Dundas
The Senior Open Championship
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Bernhard Langer
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Sources and editorial notes6 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.
- The R&A: Championships and International Matches 1984–2012, edited by Peter N. Lewis PDF page 517, printed 516, 2010 entry: The Senior Open Championship.
- The R&A: official Amateur championship results R&A official results book, 1992, PDF pages 269–272. Reported book dates retained in the source facts only until competitive-day boundaries are corroborated. This selected chronology is incomplete.