The greatest of all golf tournaments starts next week on the Kent coast. It’s the 15th time Royal St George’s has hosted the Open Championship since 1894, when JH Taylor beat Douglas Rolland by five strokes in the 34th edition of the tournament and the first held outside Scotland. I know this because I’m a golf nerd, and the Open – or the Open Championship if you like, but never the British Open – is fertile soil for golf geeks who like their tidbits old and arcane. And the Open is old. It’s a tournament that captures the imagination like…

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