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Royal Troon will have the longest hole in Open history when the Ayrshire links plays host to the 152nd championship in July.<\/b><\/p>\n
The sixth hole will measure 623 yards – 22 more than it did when Troon staged the 2016 Open – when it hosts the battle for the Claret Jug from 18-21 July.<\/p>\n
Two holes later, the players could then play the shortest hole in the championship’s long history.<\/p>\n
The iconic par-three eighth, the \u2018Postage Stamp\u2019, will measure 123 yards on the scorecard but organisers the Royal & Ancient (R&A) is considering reducing that to 99 yards for one round, weather permitting.<\/p>\n
The R&A can use a forward tee and a front pin position to create a hole that would play fewer than 100 yards.<\/p>\n
Overall though, the R&A’s preferred architects Mackenzie & Ebert have generally lengthened the links for the 2024 Open.<\/p>\n
The creation of nine new tees means an overall increase of 195 yards to 7,385 – just 36 fewer than the record at Carnoustie in 2007.<\/p>\n
There are new bunker positions – on the first and sixth fairways as well as next to the sixth green.<\/p>\n
The sixth at Troon will play three yards longer than the 15th – which was the 16th before the addition of the new 17th – at Royal Liverpool last year after it was stretched by 45 yards since Rory McIlroy’s win at Hoylake in 2014.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s championship has sold out, ensuring a record attendance for a Troon Open of 250,000 – an increase of more than 70,000 people from 2016, when Henrik Stenson prevailed in a thrilling duel with Phil Mickelson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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