Ohio Golf Journal July 2018

The Open Championship is Set for Carnoustie By Fred Altvater The 147 th renewal of The Open Championship will be competed this month at one of the most iconic and DIFÚCULT GOLF COURSES IN THE world, Carnoustie. Golf fans will recall Jean Van de Velde’s unfriendly encounter with the burn and ultimate collapse on the 72 nd hole in the 1999 Open Championship held at Car- Nasty. Arriving at the last hole with a three-shot lead, the Frenchman carded a triple- bogey seven that left him tied with Paul Lawrie and Justin Leonard to force a playoff. Lawrie would win the four- hole playoff and Van de Velde would go down in golf history as authoring the most CATASTROPHIC ÚNISH IN A MAJOR championship. In 1953, Ben Hogan made HIS ÚRST AND ONLY TRIP TO THE British Isles to win The Open at Carnoustie. Every round he took an aggressive line off the TEE AT THE PAR YARD SIXTH Ohio Golf Journal