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hbx.Multidisciplinary gift, loyalty, and prepaid card manufacturer offers lucrative growth platform for national expansion.Welcome to The Open Approach!To learn more about the value we can bring to your organization, click on the links above, call us at 630.Copyright 2005 The Open Approach.Innovative production technologies, fluctuating buyer demands, and the widespread adoption of the Internet have spawned some of the most dramatic changes the print industry has ever seen.Indeed, many longtime print standouts have all but disappeared, while former "unknowns" have become the visionaries of the next generation.The difference has been their ability to understand, embrace, and leverage the continually changing dynamics of the marketplace.That's where The Open Approach comes in.In 2001, The Open Approach was formed to help print providers and users reap the burgeoning opportunities of the new environment.The Open Approach brings an inside perspective into the demands, challenges, and solutions at hand.Moreover, our experience, aligned with major market Fortune 500 customer knowledge, provides a realistic understanding of the platforms, strategies, and capabilities companies need to achieve the rich potential of the competitive landscape.Our exclusive focus in the industry repeatedly makes a difference in time, resources, profitability, and effectiveness of strategic initiatives.We understand your issues.We listen to your needs.Copyright 2005 The Open Approach.The Open Championship is the oldest of the four major championships in men's golf.The event takes place every year on one of nine historic links courses in the United Kingdom.Historically, The Open's prize money was consistently the least of the four majors; since 2002 it has been the highest.The tournament is often referred to as the British Open outside the United Kingdom.The Open is played on the weekend of the third Friday in July, and is the third major to take place each year following The Masters and the U.Open and before the PGA Championship.The Open features a four hole playoff for all golfers tied at the end of regulation.If any golfers remained tied at this point, they repeat the 18th hole until there is a winner.History
2 Tour status
3 Host courses
4 Exemptions and qualifying events
5 Tournament name
6 Records
7 Winners
7.History
The Open Championship was first played on 17 October 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club.Willie Park Senior won with a score of 174, beating the favourite, Old Tom Morris, by two strokes.The following year the tournament was opened to amateurs; eight of them joined ten professionals in the field.Championship Belt, the winner's prize at the Open from 1860 to 1870.Originally, the trophy presented to the event's winner was the Champion's Belt, a red leather belt with a silver buckle.There was no prize money in the first three Opens.The Champions Belt was retired in 1870, when Young Tom Morris was allowed to keep it for winning the tournament three consecutive times.It was then replaced by the present trophy, The Golf Champion Trophy, better known by its popular name of The Claret Jug.Prestwick Golf Club administered The Open from 1860 to 1870.The Open has always been dominated by professionals, with only six victories by amateurs, all of which occurred between 1890 and 1930.The last of these was Bobby Jones's third Open and part of his celebrated Grand Slam.Jones was one of four Americans who won The Open between the First and Second World Wars, the first of whom had been Walter Hagen in 1922.Otherwise the early postwar years The Open was dominated by golfers from the Commonwealth, with South African Bobby Locke and Australian Peter Thomson winning the Claret Jug in nine of the 11 championships from 1948 and 1958 between them.PGA Championship, which meant that Ben Hogan, the best American golfer at this time, competed in The Open just once, in 1953 at Carnoustie, a tournament he won.Palmer first competed in 1960, when he came second to the little known Australian Kel Nagle, but he won the two following years.While he was far from being the first American to become Open Champion, he was the first that many Americans saw win the tournament on television, and his charismatic success is often credited with persuading leading American golfers to make The Open an integral part of their schedule, rather than an optional extra.Atlantic travel also increased American participation.Nicklaus' victories came in 1966, 1970 and 1978.He finished in the top five 16 times, which is tied most in Open history with John Henry Taylor and easily the most in the postwar era.This included seven second places.At Turnberry in 1977 he was involved in one of the most celebrated contests in golf history, when his duel with Tom Watson went to the final shot before Watson emerged as the champion for the second time.The European winners of this era, Spaniard Seve Ballesteros, Sandy Lyle, who was the first Scottish winner in over half a century, and the Englishman Nick Faldo, were also leading lights among the group of players who began to get the better of the Americans in the Ryder Cup during this period.In 1995, The Open became part of the PGA Tour's official schedule.John Daly's playoff win over Italian Costantino Rocca in that year began another era of American domination.Tiger Woods has won three Championships to date, two at St Andrews in 2000 and 2005, and one at Hoylake in 2006.Andrews as the venue, giving his final farewell to the fans at the Home of Golf.In 2002, all Open wins before 1995 were retroactively classified as PGA Tour wins.Tour status
It has been an official event on the PGA Tour since 1995, which means that the prize money won in The Open by PGA Tour members is included on the official money list.In addition, all Open Championships before 1995 have been retroactively classified as PGA Tour wins, and the list of leading winners on the PGA Tour has been adjusted to reflect this.The European Tour has recognised The Open as an official event since its first official season in 1972 and it is also an official money event on the Japan Golf Tour.The Open Championship was organized by and played at Prestwick Golf Club.Initially there were three courses in the rotation, namely Prestwick, St Andrews, and Musselburgh.In 1893 Royal St George's and Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake were invited to join the rotation.Since then a handful of further clubs have been added, and a few have been dropped.The common factor in the venues for The Open is that they have always been links courses.There is a map showing the locations of the venues here (there are thirteen dots for the fourteen courses; two of the courses are in the town of Sandwich).The Open is usually played in Scotland or North West England.It has never been played in Wales, or in seven of the nine regions of England, and it has only been played in Northern Ireland once.Scotland
There are nine courses in the current rota:
Old Course at St Andrews: In 1873 the "Home of Golf" became the second course to host the Open.Carnoustie Golf Links, Championship Course: Another Scottish course, the Royal Burgh of Carnoustie first hosted The Open in 1931, and it rejoined the rotation by hosting The Open in 1999 after an absence of 24 years.Muirfield: Muirfield is a private course which was built for The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, one of the trio of clubs which ran The Open in the 1870s and 1880s.The Westin Turnberry Resort, Ailsa Course: A course on the southwest coast of Scotland which hosted The Open in 1977, 1986, and 1994.In 1894 it became the first Open venue outside Scotland.Royal Birkdale Golf Club: This course in northwest England has been in the rotation since 1954.Royal Birkdale will host The Open in 2008.St Annes Golf Club: Also in northwest England, this course first hosted The Open in 1926, and entered the rotation in 1952.Royal Liverpool Golf Club: The home of the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, which is often referred to simply as "Hoylake", joined the rotation in 1897 and hosted ten Opens up to 1967.After a 39 year absence from the rotation, it hosted the 2006 Open Championship.When that club built Muirfield, Musselburgh dropped out of the rotation.Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club: This course in the town of Deal in Kent, England hosted the Open in 1909 and 1920.It hosted its only Open in 1932.Royal Portrush Golf Club: The 1951 Open was staged at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland.Exemptions and qualifying events
The field for the Open is 156, and golfers may gain a place in three ways.The rest of the field is made up of players who were successful in "Local Qualifying" and those who came through "International Qualifying".There are almost thirty exemption categories.The top 20 in the previous season's PGA Tour money list and European Tour Order of Merit.Most but not all of these players will also be in the World top 50.All players who have won one of the other three majors in the previous five years.Among other things, the additional exemption categories ensure that all the member tours of the International Federation of PGA Tours are represented, and that there are some amateur competitors.Full details of all the exemption categories can be found here.There are now twelve places available through Local Qualifying, though there used to be far more.Local Qualifying is open to players from all over the world, and it used to attract some big names.Only players who have a rating in the Official World Golf Rankings may enter, which is a more stringent standard than for Local Qualifying.Eligible players may choose whether to enter local qualifying or international qualifying, but they may not enter both.Tournament name
Outside the UK, the tournament is generally called the "British Open", in part to distinguish the tournament from another of the four majors that has an 'open' format, the U.Open, but mainly because other nations with similar 'open' format golf events refer to their own nation's open event as "the open."However, in the United Kingdom and a fair portion of Europe, the tournament is known colloquially as the Open.Youngest winner: Young Tom Morris (17 years, 181 days), 1868.Most victories: 6, Harry Vardon (1896, 1898, 1899, 1903, 1911, 1914).Par at Royal St George's, the site of the 1993 Open, was 70, as opposed to the par 72 of The Old Course at St Andrews, the 2000 site.Greatest victory margin: 13 strokes, Old Tom Morris, 1862.Open by 15 strokes at Pebble Beach.Mark Hayes, 2nd round, 1977; Isao Aoki, 3rd, 1980; Greg Norman, 2nd, 1986; Paul Broadhurst, 3rd, 1990; Jodie Mudd, 4th, 1991; Nick Faldo, 2nd, 1993; Payne Stewart, 4th, 1993.Hutchison, Barnes and Armour were British born and learned their golf in the UK, but they took U.See Notes: Young Tom Morris gets 20 days older, pgatour.Robert Bettes Productions, Inc.The best part is that you get your own interactive diary, with unlimited storage and posts.If you love your diary, you'll love it even more when you upgrade to a Plus account.Want to see who's joined OD lately?Click here to view Open Diary uptime statistics.Visit the OD Boards to talk with other members.Here you can find diary entries that our members think are worth reading.Open Diary Mail, please login here.Teen Open Diary Import, please click here.NOT get warm last night.Not sure if I mentioned it or not, but today Kevin and I are going to look at our first reception hall.It is the first step....You are the best one of the best ones.For once i am actually sitting outside, enjoying the wonders of the world, listening to music at full blast enjoying the day.Actually, it was Sonnet by the Verve.Last night was a rather rough night.My benedryl kicked in and I could feel myself starting to fall asleep here at the...Today is a good day because I got off work early, and while I was there most of the time was spent watching over Sophie and Phil, the new kids, to...Memorable Quotes from the 2007 US OpenA Decade of Arthur Ashe: Building ExcitementIntroducing Henin 2.Unexpected: Moments from the 2007 US OpenIntroducing Henin 2.Simple licensesOf the people, by the people, for the people...Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process.One of our most important activities is as a standards body, maintaining the Open Source Definition for the good of the community.Open Source InitiativeOSI is Hiring!!! |
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