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Open Golf Corporate Hospitality for The British Open Championship 2013 – Muirfield
17th – 21 July 2013
The Open Golf Championship is one of four major golf tournaments held over the year. It’s the longest running and the only Championship to be held outside of the United States. With it being a major it attracts the world’s most elite golfers, all trying to get their hands on the massive prize fund and the very prestigious claret jug. VIP Event Butler offer very luxurious Open Golf Corporate Hospitality facilities that you and your guests can enjoy. This will make your day at the Open Championship one to remember.
Traditionally held on the weekend of the third Friday in July, it is the 3rd major to take place in the calendar year. It takes place on one of nine links golf course in Scotland or England, these courses are:
- The Old Course St Andrews (Scheduled for 2015)
- Carnoustie Golf Links (last held in 2007)
- Muirfield (Holder this year)
- Turnberry (last held in 2009)
- Royal Troon (Scheduled for 2016)
- Royal St Georges (last held 2011)
- Royal Birkdale (last held 2008)
- Royal Lytham and St Annes (last held 2012)
- Royal Liverpool (scheduled for 2014)
This year’s venue, Muirfield, is a links course located in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. The course has hosted the Open Championship fifteen times, the most recent one being in 2002 when Ernie Els (This year’s defending champion) won the Claret Jug.
Golfing legend Jack Nicklaus won three Open Championships in total, the first of which happened at Muirfield in 1966, he describes the course as “the best golf course in Britain”. He rates the course so highly that he has named one of his own American courses after it, Muirfield Village in Columbus, Ohio.
The Open was first played in 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland, where it was restricted to just 8 professional golfers who played for The Challenge Belt and no prize money. The Open now has a field of around seventy professional golfers, who qualify based on their performances in the previous season and world ranking. Some Amateur golfers and regional Professionals try and qualify for The Open by playing in local, national and international tournaments held all over the world
In 2012 Ernie Els picked up his second Open Championship trophy by coming from behind in the final round to win by a single shot over Adam Scott at Royal Lytham and St Annes Golf Club. No doubt Ernie will be looking forward to defending his title somewhere he has won before.
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