High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2009 Open Championship was the 138th Open Championship, one of the four major golf championships, and was played from 16–19 July at the Turnberry Resort, in Ayrshire, Scotland. It was the fourth time The Open Championship had been played at Turnberry. The previous winners of the tournament there were Tom Watson in 1977, Greg Norman in 1986, and Nick Price in 1994.