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2007 OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP REGIONAL QUALIFYING COURSES - 17th Feb 2005

Enville Golf Club and The Gog Magog are named as new additions in the list of 16 clubs that will host Regional Qualifying for the 2007 Open Championship at Carnoustie.

The other 14 venues will be Ashridge, Effingham, Minchinhampton, Musselburgh, Notts, Old Fold Manor, Pannal, Pleasington, Prestbury, Rochester & Cobham Park, Royal Ashdown Forest, Silloth-on-Solway, The Island and Trentham.

Enville, which this year celebrates its 70th anniversary is located in the South Staffordshire countryside and in the past 20 years has extended its facilities to include two eighteen hole courses. Regional Qualifying will be played over the longer Highgate Course consisting of nine holes of woodland and nine holes of heathland.

The second new venue The Gog Magog, is set in rolling East Anglian terrain amongst the chalk hills of Gog and Magog, two legendary giants from ancient mythology.

The club was founded by Cambridge University in 1901 as a recreational facility for its Dons and in 1997 a second course, The Wandlebury, was opened. It is this course, stretching to 6735 yards that will host Regional Qualifying.

The four Local Final Qualifying courses for 2007 have been previously announced as Downfield, Monifieth Links, Montrose Links and Panmure.

When The Open returns to Carnoustie in 2007, it will be 100 years since qualifying was first introduced. It was however only in 1977 that Regional Qualifying in its present form was added.

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