Talk:1923 Open Championship

I have removed the following paragraph: "The tournament at Troon was played in near-gale force conditions. An incident that occurred during the qualifying rounds best illustrates how windy conditions were. Aubrey Boomer hit a shot from a bunker, only to have the ball get blown back by the wind and land in his jacket pocket." since the incident actually occurred on the first day of the Daily Mail £1,000 Tournament on 2 May 1923. From the Times of 3 May 1923 "There was an extraordinary incident during yesterday's play. A. Boomer, when playing his third stroke to the eighth hole, hit the ball high into the air; it disappeared, and when all attempts to find it were about to be given up, Boomer found the ball in the right-hand pocket of his coat. Boomer must have skied the ball almost perpendicularly. He penalized himself a stroke on the grounds that he had touched the ball - and the penalty was afterwards confirmed by the committee." Of course, the self same incident may have happened in Open qualifying but it is not reported in The Times, so I suspect there has been confusion somewhere along the line. Nigej (talk) 17:07, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Venue

The "Venue" section of the article shows the "bogie" score of the course was 40-39=79. Yet in the info box of the tournament, and in the summary description of the tournament, "par" is listed as 73. Whosnext23 (talk) 17:25, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

The problem is that the use of par was not widespread in the UK at this time. American newspapers quoted par figures (which they worked out themselves using the USGA system) but these were not official in any sense. It's only very recently that official par figures have been reported in the UK. The course bogie was, I think, used for handicapping purposes. Havers won because he had a score of 295 compared to Hagen's 296. Par/Bogie is completely irrelevant. Really, any reference to par figures for any UK tournament around this time should be removed. Nigej (talk) 17:58, 21 May 2016 (UTC)