[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Having hosted the Open in 1909 and 1920 (the latter postponed from 1915 due to the first World War), Deal was awarded the Open in 1938 but serious flooding from unusually high tides in February left the course,...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Halford Hewitt Tournament is the world's largest amateur foursomes team event. Today, it comprises 64 Public School teams of ten players, competing in a foursome match play knockout over four days.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The competition began in 1924, when Halford...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Deal holds the Amateur Championship for the first time, which is won by Roger Wethered, who beats Robert Harris 7&6 in the final. In his semi-final Wethered beat Francis Ouimet, winner of the 1913 US Open.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]There are many...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Deal had been planned as the location for the Open Championship in 1915, but in early in that year it was decided that there would be no championships during the remainder of World War I; the next Open...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Deal was awarded the 1909 Open Championship, and joined the illustrious rota which now read: 1910 St Andrews, 1911 Sandwich, 1912 Muirfield, 1913 Hoylake, 1914 Prestwick and 1915 Deal.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]A qualifying field of 204 players was reduced to 69...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Harry Hunter designed, and began constructing, the course in 1897 and the full eighteen holes were opened in 1899.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]A newspaper reported “It is now a magnificent links and requires thoroughly good golf to negotiate it, as all bad...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The original 3000-yard nine-hole course would be recognisable to modern day players; the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th holes resemble the current layout, whilst the 7th, 8th and 9th match the last three holes of today’s course.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The bogey...
