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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?

NWO Golf Links

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.”