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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)
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)
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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)
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)