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Thursday, July 14, 2011

British Open Golf 2011 Live Stream Online, Royal St George's Golf Feed

The British Open, referred to in the UK as The Open Championship, or simply The Open, is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA .

This live feed is at Royal St George's for The Open:

http://www.myworldwebcams.com/sports/open_golf.html

Event Information:

The British Open is played on the weekend of the third Friday in July. It is the third major to take place each year, following The Masters and the U.S. Open, but preceeding the PGA Championship.

The Royal St George's Golf Club is one of the premier golf clubs in the United Kingdom, and one of the courses on The Open Championship rotation. It has hosted 13 Open championships since 1894, when it became the first club outside Scotland to host the championship. Past champions include Ben Curtis, Greg Norman, Sandy Lyle, Bill Rogers, Bobby Locke, Reg Whitcombe, Henry Cotton, Walter Hagen (on two different occasions), Harry Vardon (on two different occasions), Jack White and John Henry Taylor. It has also hosted The Amateur Championship on 13 occasions.

The club is located in Sandwich, Kent, England, and was founded in 1887 in a setting of wild duneland. Many holes feature blind or partially blind shots, although the unfairness element has been reduced somewhat, after several 20th century modifications. The club's Challenge Trophy dates from 1888 and is one of the oldest trophies in golf; it has been contested annually except for war years. The course also possesses the deepest bunker in championship golf, located on its fourth hole. From 1860–70, The British Open Championship was organised by and played at Prestwick Golf Club. Since it was revived in 1872 after a lapse of one year, it has always been played at a number of courses in rotation. 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.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Alfred Dunhill Links Championship 2010 - St Andrews Golf Course Live

The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, is one of the richest golf tournaments on the European Tour. It is played in October, on three different links courses, centred around the "home of golf", St Andrews in Fife, Scotland.

This live feed will capture all the action throughout the championship:

St Andrews live golf

Event Information:

The tournament is a pro-am, with teams of one professional and one amateur playing one round each at St Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns. Following these first three rounds there is a cut, with the leading 60 professionals continuing on to play in the final round at St Andrews. They are joined by the leading 20 teams, regardless of whether the professional member of the team made the cut individually.

Originally called the Dunhill Links Championship, the event was introduced in 2001 as a replacement for the Alfred Dunhill Cup, a three man team tournament which became marginalised when the long established World Cup of Golf was given enhanced status as part of the World Golf Championships in 2000, becoming the WGC-World Cup.

To increase interest in the event, many of the amateurs are well known personalities from the worlds of sport and entertainment. These have included Nigel Mansell, Ian Botham, Gary Lineker, Boris Becker, Michael Douglas, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Vaughan, Sir Matthew Pinsent, and Hugh Grant. The closest equivalent to the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on the PGA Tour is the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Live Irish Open Golf 2010 from Killarney Golf Club

Killarney Webcam, Live Irish Open Golf View

The Irish Open, the only event on the gold Pro Tour to be played in Ireland, is taking place this weekend at a new venue, moving from Adare Golf Club in Limerick to the Killarney Club.

This live view comes live from the course itself, as the tournament enters it's second day.

The Irish Open is a European Tour golf tournament which is currently played in May each year. It was first played in 1927 and continued until 1950, when the tournament experienced financial problems. Except for a single event, held in 1953, there was a 25 year hiatus until the Irish Open returned in 1975.

Adare Golf Club, part of the Adare Manor Hotel and Golf Resort in County Limerick had planned to host the tournament for 3 years from 2007 to 2009, however in January 2009 it was announced that they could no longer sustain the losses incurred by hosting the event for a third year. In early March, the European Tour confirmed the national championship would return to County Louth Golf Club, Baltray, venue in 2004, with a new sponsor, 3 Mobile.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

St Andrews Web Cam - Live at The Open 2010

This webcam has live feed views of The Old Course and Clubhouse at St Andrews, home of the Golf Open Championship as Tiger Woods returns to the Pro Tour in Scotland:

The Old Course and Clubhouse at St Andrews, home of the Golf Open Championship

The Open Golf Championship gets underway at the Old Course St Andrews on Thursday 14th July, where the world's greatest golfers will battle for the famous Claret Jug.

The last 2 St Andrews Opens have been won by Tiger Woods in 2000 and 2005. The 2010 version sees the famous 17th "Road Hole", possibly the most famous hole in golf, lengthened for the first time in over 100 years.