How James Bond conquered Royal St George’s - and Goldfinger

[ASFN Admin]

If you tell the average sports nerd that literature’s greatest golf match took place at Royal St George’s – the venue for this week’s Open Championship – he’ll shake his head in a superior manner and say “No mate, it was at Stoke Park.” That’s because our expert is thinking about the movie version of Goldfinger, during which the dastardly henchman Oddjob decapitates a statue with a whirl of his bowler hat. But the source material is actually set in Kent, on an unmistakeable links course that aut

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