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Big news for !
Royal will have the longest hole in Open history when the Ayrshire links plays host to the 152nd championship in July.
The sixth hole will measure 623 yards - 22 more than it did when staged the 2016 Open - when it hosts the battle for the Claret Jug from 18-21 July.
Two holes later, the players could then play the shortest hole in the championship's long history.
The iconic par-three eighth, the โPostage Stamp', 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.
The R&A can use a forward tee and a front pin position to create a hole that would play fewer than 100 yards.
Overall though, the R&A's preferred architects Mackenzie & Ebert have generally lengthened the links for the 2024 Open.
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.
There are new bunker positions - on the first and sixth fairways as well as next to the sixth green.
The 15th - which was the 16th before the addition of the new 17th - played 620 yards at Royal Liverpool last year after being stretched by 45 yards since Rory McIlroy's win at Hoylake in 2014.
This year's championship has sold out, ensuring a record attendance for a 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.
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Israel must bomb Portland!
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Change of guard on India-Pakistan border.pic.twitter.com/rGYFD7i3KA
— Figen (@TheFigen_) April 30, 2024
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So apparently if someone knows / guesses the name of your S3 bucket - even if it's private (!) - they can just bankrupt you by sending infinite PUT requests and there is nothing you can do about it.
— Laura Wendel (@Lauramaywendel) April 29, 2024
> requests get rejected
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u broke my heart ๐ never thought Iโd be making a video like this ๐ข pic.twitter.com/zdl7I222t2
— erick ๐ฒ๐ฝ (@AlexisVegaG0AT) April 30, 2024
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Hope to find a thread like this for ftms too.
It's fascinating when decent looking people transition. Their parents are probably going even more apeshit than an average looking or unattractive tranner's parents.
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Dave & Buster's to allow customers to bet on arcade games https://t.co/BsLfo92Kcs
— CNBC (@CNBC) April 30, 2024
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Full video available now on@X
— Baste Records (@basterecords) April 29, 2024
Afroman: "Hunter Got High" pic.twitter.com/rGltluKTi3
It's over hunterchads
INB4 the cops break down his door again and steal more cake
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Relationships are scary what if he .. pic.twitter.com/sckIRNRTml
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