Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club is an 18-hole links

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in southeastern

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, in the town of

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in the County of

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(the course is often known simply as "Deal"). Founded in 1892, its name derives from Deal's membership of an ancient group of trading towns granted special privileges by the medieval English monarchs, known as the

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. The course runs along the coast of Sandwich Bay, on the same stretch of coastline as

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and

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, adjacent to the north. Royal Cinque Ports hosted

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and

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. Two more were scheduled for

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and

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, but both were relocated when abnormally high tides inundated the course; both were held at nearby Royal St George's. Consequently, the club was removed from the Open Championship rota, but remains a final qualifying course (most recently in 2017). It has also continued to host various other tournaments including

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(1923, 1982, 2013) and, since 1925, it has hosted the Public Schools Championship every year.

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, winner of the 2004

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, is a member of Royal Cinque Ports.

Scorecard

Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club Scorecard, Black Tees

The Open Championship

Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, Deal has hosted

twice. *Note: For multiple winners of The Open Championship, superscript ordinal identifies which in their respective careers.

Notable members

David Gordon Hines David Gordon Hines (8 February 1915 – 14 March 2000) was a chartered accountant who as a British colonial administrator developed farming co-operatives in Tanganyika and later in Uganda. This radically improved the living standards of farm ...

was responsible for the development of co-operatives in Tanganyika and

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, improving the living standards of farmers in their transition from subsistence farming to cash crops. ''In Uganda in the 1950s, his organisation encouraged some 500,000 farmers to join these co-operatives.''

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Golf Club Atlas Guide
{{Coord, 51.2395, 1.3965, display=title Golf clubs and courses in Kent The Open Championship venues Deal, Kent Organisations based in the United Kingdom with royal patronage

Scorecard

The Open Championship

Notable members

See also

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