Bulldawg Illustrated · Jul 18, 2021
Loran Smith: Royal St. Georges
There is something alluring about the Open championship wherever it takes place each summer. This week for the playing of the 149th championship, which dates back to 1860, the Royal St. Georges Golf Club in Sandwich, England, does not get the high marks of other Open courses. Certainly not the venerable Scottish venues.
It was, however, the first club to host the Open championship outside Scotland which came about in 1894. Gary Player says that St. Georges is, perhaps, the easiest of the Open courses to play but offers a disclaimer with regard to the wind. When the winds are quiet, the course is relatively tame, but when they rush in from the English Channel, it can be a different story.