Carnoustie Links Golf

The Carnoustie Golf Links , located in the royal Burgh of Carnoustie, county of Angus, in the east of the Scotland is one of the courses on which the British Open of Golf is played into revolving. It is reported that one plays there golf since 1527, that is to say before St Andrews where the first documents making state of this play go back to 1552. In 1890, the 14th Duc of Dalhousie, which was owner of the ground, sold the links to the inhabitants of the city with load for them to maintain it available to perpetuity for entertaining ends. Although the inhabitants of the city are the owners, the courses are managed for their account by the Conseil of Angus.

The original course comprised ten holes which crossed and recrossed a small brook, Barry Burn. The opening of the coastal railway line of Dundee to Arbroath in 1838 brought places as distant as Edinburgh an surge from players eager this to measure with this old course. It was thus decided to entirely remelt the course, carried in 1868 by the Vieux Tom Morris with eighteen holes, number which, in the interval, had become the standard. Since then, two new courses were created, shortest Burnside Course and, but also testing, Buddon Links.

Carnoustie sheltered British Open of Golf for the first time in 1931, after modifications were made to the course by James Braid in 1926. The winner was Tommy Armor, of Edinburgh. The list of the other winners of Open in Carnoustie includes/understands the English Henri Cotton in 1937, legendary the American Ben Hogan (1953), the South-African Gary Player (1968), the American Tom Watson (1975) and the Écossais Paul Lawrie in 1999.

With the the United States, the course is called “Because-Nasty” because of its difficulty. He is regarded as the hardest course of those which are selected for the revolving one of British Open and one of most difficult of the world. The Carnoustie effect dates from the Open 1999, when many the best world players, accustomed to the American courses manicurists felt frustrated by unexpected problems encountered on the links. One of the players given like favorite by much, Sergio Garcia, then 19 years old, crumbled in tears in the arms of his/her mother to leaving the course.

This edition the Open one will remain however in the memories because of the spectacular collapse of the player French Jean Van de Velde. Whereas with starts last hole, one by four, it was enough for him to play in six blows, that is to say a double bogey, it finished the seven hole above by and ends up losing the play-off which opposed it to Paul Lawrie. The Open one will be played Carnoustie in 2007 again.

“The Carnoustie effect” is defined like “this mental and psychic state of shock felt by the meeting with reality by those whose hopes are based on erroneous assumptions”. As it is about a concept concerned with psychology, she can of course apply to the disillusions felt in any sphere of activity and not only to the golf.

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External bonds

Official site
official Blog for Open the 2007
official Photographs of the 18 holes of Carnoustie Championship Links Golf Race

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