Royal Troon can have the longest gap in Open historical past when the Ayrshire hyperlinks performs host to the 152nd championship in July.
The sixth gap will measure 623 yards – 22 greater than it did when Troon staged the 2016 Open – when it hosts the battle for the Claret Jug from 18-21 July.
Two holes later, the gamers may then play the shortest gap within the championship’s lengthy historical past.
The enduring par-three eighth, the ‘Postage Stamp’, will measure 123 yards on the scorecard however organisers the Royal & Historic (R&A) is contemplating lowering that to 99 yards for one spherical, climate allowing.
The R&A can use a ahead tee and a entrance pin place to create a gap that might play fewer than 100 yards.
General although, the R&A’s most popular architects Mackenzie & Ebert have usually lengthened the hyperlinks for the 2024 Open.
The creation of 9 new tees means an general improve of 195 yards to 7,385 – simply 36 fewer than the file at Carnoustie in 2007.
There are new bunker positions – on the primary and sixth fairways in addition to subsequent to the sixth inexperienced.
The sixth at Troon will play three yards longer than the fifteenth – which was the sixteenth earlier than the addition of the brand new seventeenth – at Royal Liverpool final 12 months after it was stretched by 45 yards since Rory McIlroy’s win at Hoylake in 2014.
This 12 months’s championship has offered out, guaranteeing a file attendance for a Troon Open of 250,000 – a rise of greater than 70,000 folks from 2016, when Henrik Stenson prevailed in an exciting duel with Phil Mickelson.
