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continued the solid golf he had displayed
all week and relied on his trusty short game
to make four pars to finish one ahead of
Els, the 2002 victor at Muirfield, who had
dropped a shot after overshooting the green
on the 17
th
.
Hamilton, who will return to Troon at the
age of 50, said: “I was trying to look around
as much as I could to soak it all in. So to be
Open champion is very special.”
It certainly is. Will yet another American
win this year?
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Two of the memorable holes at Royal
Troon and likely to be the most
discussed, are The Postage Stamp and the Railway.The Postage Stamp measures a mere
126 yards on the scorecard, but it has
long been established as one of the
game’s finest and most challenging
par threes. It ranks alongside Augusta
National’s 12
th
, Pebble Beach’s seventh
and the brilliant 11
th
at the Old Course
of St. Andrews.
The brutally difficult 11
th
,
The Railway
,
is 490 yards of terror that was
described by Palmer as being “the
most dangerous hole I’ve ever seen.”