The Open The Open The 146th Open Royal Birkdale 16th - 23rd July 2017 Birkdale 7° C The 146th Open Royal Birkdale 16-23 July 2017 The Claret Jug Explore the history of the Golf Champion Trophy, better known as the Claret Jug. The Claret Jug The Claret Jug, or to use its proper name, the Golf Champion Trophy, is presented to each year's winner of The Open. Yet it is not the original prize. When the Championship began at Prestwick in 1860, the winner was presented with the Challenge Belt, made of rich Moroccan leather, embellished with a silver buckle and emblems. The Challenge Belt The impetus to provide the Challenge Belt had come from the Earl of Eglinton and derived from his keen interest in medieval pageantry. He was pre-eminent in encouraging sport throughout the social spectrum and was a leading light in setting up The Open Championship. The Earl donated many trophies for competition, including a gold belt for competition among the Irvine Archers. The original Challenge Belt was purchased by the members of Prestwick Golf Club.

According to the first rule of the new golf competition: “The party winning the belt shall always leave the belt with the treasurer of the club until he produces a guarantee to the satisfaction of the above committee that the belt shall be safely kept and laid on the table at the next meeting to compete for it until it becomes the property of the winner by being won three times in succession. A Brief History 1860 - The first Open takes place at Prestwick Golf Club. Winner presented with the Challenge Belt. 1872 - Three clubs to host The Open contribute £10 each towards a new trophy - a silver claret jug. The 1872 winner received a medal. 1873 - The Golf Champion Trophy is made by Mackay Cunningham & Company. Tom Kidd was the first Champion to receive the new Claret Jug but the 1872 winner, Tom Morris Junior, was the first name engraved on it. 1927 - Agreement to retain the original Claret Jug and present future Champions with a replica.

The search for a new trophy - the Silver Claret Jug In 1870, just 10 years after The Open Championship began, Tom Morris Junior won for the third consecutive time and became the owner of the belt. The future direction of the Championship was discussed at Prestwick Golf Club’s Spring Meeting in April 1871, during which a key proposal was put forward by Gilbert Mitchell Innes: “In contemplation of St Andrews, Musselburgh and other clubs joining in the purchase of a Belt to be played for over four or more greens it is not expedient for the club to provide a Belt to be played for solely at Prestwick.” The motion was passed, but no final decisions were reached about venues or the involvement of other clubs, with the result that The Open Championship was not played in 1871. Moves to revive the competition resumed the following year. The minutes of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club, dated May 1, state that the green committee had been “empowered to enter into communication with other clubs with a view to effecting a revival of the Championship Belt, and they were authorised to contribute a sum not exceeding £15 from the funds of the club”.

Agreement was finally reached on September 11, 1872 between the three clubs that were to host The Open — Prestwick, the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers and The Royal and Ancient Golf Club. They decided that the winner would receive a medal and that each of the three clubs would contribute £10 towards the cost of a new trophy, which was to be a silver claret jug, instead of another belt. Its proper name was to be The Golf Champion Trophy. These decisions were taken too late for the trophy to be presented to the 1872 Open Champion, who was once again Tom Morris Junior. Instead, he was awarded with a medal inscribed ‘The Golf Champion Trophy’. The Golf Champion Trophy The Golf Champion Trophy, now commonly referred to as the Claret Jug, was made by Mackay Cunningham & Company of Edinburgh and was hallmarked 1873. The first Open Champion to receive the new trophy was the 1873 winner, Tom Kidd, but Tom Morris Junior’s name was the first to be engraved on it as the 1872 winner. In 1920 all responsibility for The Open Championship was handed over to The Royal and Ancient Golf Club.

Following the 1927 Open, which was won at St Andrews by Bobby Jones, the club’s Championship Committee took the decision to retain the Claret Jug in future years and to present the winner with a replica. In 1928, Walter Hagen won the third of his four Open titles and accepted the replica Claret Jug, having already been presented with the original in 1922 and 1924. During the half-century in which the original Claret Jug was used, twenty-eight different players held it aloft, including Harry Vardon on a record six occasions. Open Medals The first time a medal was given to the winner was in 1872, when no trophy was available. Unlike the Claret Jug, which must be returned in time for the next Championship, the Gold Medal is kept by the winner. The early Gold Medals, which in fact were silver gilt, were large ovals with a central design of a shield and crossed clubs. Around the edge was the inscription ‘Golf Champion Trophy’. During the late 1880s and early 1890s, the design of the medal underwent several changes.

The circular medal was first introduced in 1893 and the basic size and shape has not changed since then. That same year, the medal was assigned a value of £10 and this was deducted from the advertised purse for the winner. In 1920, the value of the winner’s medal was increased to £25 and again deducted from his share of the prize fund. This practice stopped after the 1929 Open Championship and from 1930 onwards, the winner no longer had to ‘pay’ for his medal. The Leading Amateur It had been suggested as early as 1922 that some recognition should be given to the leading amateur in The Open, but it was not until 1949 that a silver medal of the same size and design as the winner’s medal, was presented. It bore the inscription ‘Golf Champion Trophy’, with the addition of the words ‘First Amateur’. Frank Stranahan of the United States was the first to receive the silver medal and he went on to win it again in 1950, 1951 and 1953.

From 1972 all amateurs, other than the leading amateur, who have played on the final day of The Open Championship, have received a bronze medal. How the Claret Jug Became the British Open Trophy By Brent Kelley Why is the British Open trophy called the "Claret Jug," and what is it's history? The trophy awarded to the winner of The Open Championship is officially known as the Championship Cup, but it is much more commonly called the "Claret Jug" because, well, it's a claret jug. Claret is a dry red wine produced in the famous French winemaking region of Bordeaux. The British Open trophy was made in the style of silver jugs used to serve claret at 19th Century gatherings. But the winner of The Open Championship hasn't always received the Claret Jug as the trophy. The first handful of winners were awarded a belt. That's right, a belt. Or "Challenge Belt," as it was designated at the time. The first Open Championship was played in 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club, and that year also marked the first awarding of the belt. The belt was made of a wide, red Morocco leather and was adorned with silver buckles and emblems.

This (seemingly) gaudy "trophy" might still be the British Open trophy today but for the golfing prowess of Young Tom Morris . continue reading below our video How to Throw a Perfect Spiral in Football Prestwick hosted each of the first 11 British Opens, awarding the belt each year, which the winner would have to return to the club. But Prestwick's rules included one that stated that the belt would become the permanent property of any golfer winning the Open Championship in three consecutive years. When Young Tom Morris won in 1870, it was his third consecutive victory (he would win a fourth in 1872) and he walked off with the Challenge Belt. Suddenly, the British Open no longer had a trophy to award. And Prestwick didn't have the wherewithal to commission one on its own. So the club members at Prestwick came up with the idea of sharing the Open Championship with the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews and the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers . Prestwick proposed that the three clubs take turns staging the Open, and chip-in equally toward the creation of a new trophy.

While the clubs tried to figure out what to do, 1871 came and went without an Open Championship being played. Finally, the clubs agreed to share the Open, and each contributed money for a new trophy. How much money? About £10 each, for a total cost of the trophy of £30. When Young Tom Morris won the 1872 Open, the trophy was not yet ready. So the 1873 winner - Tom Kidd - was the first awarded the Claret Jug. That original Claret Jug from 1873 has permanently resided at the R&A since 1927. The trophy that is presented to the British Open winner each year is a copy of the original, which the winner gets to keep for a year before returning it to the R&A to be passed on to the next champion. Sources: Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St.

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/ AFP / OLI LessMore Claret Jug - 必应 Sign in Claret Jug The Golf Champion Trophy, commonly known as the Claret Jug, is the trophy presented to the winner of The Open Championship, (often called the "British Open"), one of the four major championships in golf. The awarding of the Claret Jug dates from 1872, when a new trophy was needed after Young Tom Morris had won the original Challenge Belt (presented by Prestwick Golf Club) outright in 1870 by winning the Championship three years in a row. Prestwick had both hosted and organised the Championship from 1860 to 1870. By the time that Prest ... (展开) wick had reached agreement with the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers (based at Musselburgh) for the championship to rotate at these three venues, more than a year had passed. So, there was no event in 1871. Each club contributed £10 to the cost of the new trophy, which is inscribed 'The Golf Champion Trophy', and was made by Mackay Cunningham & Company of Edinburgh.

When the 1872 event was played, the trophy still wasn't ready in time to be presented to Morris (who had won his fourth in a row) although his name was the first to be engraved on it. In 1872, Morris was presented with a medal as have all subsequent winners. In 1873 Tom Kidd became the first winner to be actually presented with the Claret Jug after winning the Championship. The original Claret Jug has been on permanent display at the clubhouse of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews since 1928. The original Challenge Belt is also on display at the same site, having been donated in 1908 by the Morris family. The current Claret Jug was first awarded to Walter Hagen for winning the 1928 Open. The winner must return the trophy before the next year's Open, and receives a replica to keep permanently. Three other replicas exist — one in the British Museum of Golf at St Andrews, and two used for travelling exhibitions. Every year, the winner's name is engraved on the Claret Jug before it is presented to him.

The BBC always shows the engraver poised to start work, and the commentators like to speculate about when he will be sure enough of the outcome to begin. However, at the 1999 Open Championship, Jean van de Velde's name was engraved on the trophy before he famously choked with a triple-bogey on the 18th hole and Paul Lawrie subsequently won the playoff. Upon being awarded the Jug in 1989, Mark Calcavecchia said, "How's my name going to fit on that thing?" The Claret Jug has twice appeared on commemorative £5 Scottish banknotes issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland: first in 2004, for the 250th Anniversary of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, then in 2005, the jug is shown held by Jack Nicklaus to mark his retirement. The Golf Champion Trophy, commonly known as the Claret Jug, is the trophy presented to the winner of The Open Championship, (often called the "British Open"), one of ... The Claret Jug. The Claret Jug, or to use its proper name, the Golf Champion Trophy, is presented to each year's winner of The Open.

Yet it is not the original prize. A silver Claret jug is a wine jug made of glass and silver for the so-called Claret, which is a French Bordeaux wine. Amazon.co.uk: claret jug. Amazon.co.uk Try Prime All Go. Shop by Department. Hello. Sign in Your Account Try Prime Your Lists Basket. Your Amazon.co.uk Today's Deals ... Indian Kutch Silver Claret Jug Shawn_wxz 采集到 Idea Shawn_wxz采集到Idea 采集 pinterest.com pretty pitcher Shawn_wxz 采集到 Idea Shawn_wxz采集到Idea 采集 ... huaban.com/pins/132069929 Famous Awards – The Open’s Claret Jug | Spike's Trophies Blog Home Famous Awards – The Open’s Claret Jug The Open Championship (a.k.a. the British Open), one of the four men’s Major Championships in the sport of golf, ends with the awarding of the iconic Claret Jug Trophy to the winner. Spike’s Trophies carries a replica of this award that can be purchased and awarded by you. You may not be familiar with the origins of the Claret Jug trophy, I wasn’t.

The Claret Jug, or to use its proper name, The Golf Champion Trophy, is presented to each year’s winner of The Open Championship. Yet it was not the original prize. When the Championship began at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland in 1860, the winner was presented with … … the Challenge Belt, made of rich morocco leather, embellished with a silver buckle and emblems. It wasn’t until 1872 that the “Jug” replaced the Champion’s Belt. Like other iconic awards, like Lord Stanley’s Cup or the Green Jacket, the Claret Jug has long held a mystical and celebratory quality. In designing the Claret Jug, it was well, just that – a claret jug. Claret is a dry red wine produced in the famous French winemaking region of Bordeaux. The British Open Trophy, made of Sterling Silver and standing 52cm (approximately 20 inches), weighing 5.4 pounds including its base, was designed with a handle that resembles a bass clef and with insides hollowed out to hold the exact contents of a bottle of wine.

Certified appraisers have estimated that the Claret Jug may include as much as $1,200 worth of precious metals. The sentimental and market value of the award is far greater. It was made in Edinburgh in 1872 by Mackay Cunningham & Company. There are now three tiers beneath the cup, engraved with the names of over 130 plus champions. Every year, the winner’s name is engraved on the Claret Jug before it is presented to him. The television coverage now shows the engraver poised to start work, with the commentators speculating about when he will be sure enough of the outcome, to begin hand engraving the next name. Held upside down, the Open’s Claret Jug delivers a perfect pour. This style of silver jug was used to serve claret at 19th Century gatherings. The Golf Champion’s Trophy has held cheap beer, expensive Champagne and iced tea brewed by Justin Leonard’s mother. Tiger Woods, winner of a few “Jugs”, has taken the trophy down from the mantle at times and filled it with various libations. “Honestly, because of the consumption, I really can’t remember,” Woods said of what he put in it.

The original claret jug is kept under lock and key in a display cabinet in the R&A clubhouse, alongside the original first prize, The Challenge Belt, which was donated to the club in 1908 by the grandchildren of Tom Morris Senior. There are in fact four copies of the original claret jug, one in the Museum of Golf at St Andrews, another in the World Golf Hall of Fame in St Augustine, Florida. A third travels the world to exhibitions and the champion is allowed to take a fourth home for a year. He is given a replica to keep which is curiously only two-thirds the size of the original. Since the 1980s all those champion jug-hugging moments photographed for the world on the 18th green are with a replica. The trophy is returned each year for presentation to the new champion, but many winners privately commission copies of the ancient jug for their personal collections. This tournament is golf’s oldest major championship and, given its history, it holds a lot of prestige for its victors. The Beginning The impetus to provide the Challenge Belt had come from the Earl of Eglinton and derived from his keen interest in medieval pageantry.

He was pre-eminent in encouraging sport throughout the social spectrum and was a leading light in setting up The Open Championship. The Earl donated many trophies for competition, including a gold belt for competition among the Irvine Archers. The original Challenge Belt was purchased by the members of Prestwick Golf Club. According to the first rule of the new golf competition: “The party winning the belt shall always leave the belt with the treasurer of the club until he produces a guarantee to the satisfaction of the above committee that the belt shall be safely kept and laid on the table at the next meeting to compete for it until it becomes the property of the winner by being won three times in succession.” In 1870, just 10 years after The Open Championship began, Tom Morris Junior won for the third consecutive time and became the owner of the belt.

The future direction of the Championship was discussed at Prestwick Golf Club’s Spring Meeting in April 1871, during which a key proposal was put forward by Gilbert Mitchell Innes: “In contemplation of St Andrews, Musselburgh and other clubs joining in the purchase of a Belt to be played for over four or more greens it is not expedient for the club to provide a Belt to be played for solely at Prestwick.” The motion was passed, but no final decisions were reached about venues or the involvement of other clubs, with the result that The Open Championship was not played in 1871. Moves to revive the competition resumed the following year. The minutes of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club, dated May 1, state that the green committee had been “empowered to enter into communication with other clubs with a view to effecting a revival of the Championship Belt, and they were authorized to contribute a sum not exceeding £15 from the funds of the club”.

To replace the original Challenge Belt, the three original clubs (Prestwick, with the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers), finally agreed on September 11, 1872, to pay £10 each to provide a new trophy instead of another belt, which was a silver claret jug, and to jointly host the Open Championship. But that was only two days before eight players contested the Open. There was obviously no time to commission a new trophy and the winner was presented with what appears to be a standard, shop-bought medal (pre-dating Spike’s Trophies by 57 years). It was the first time that a medal had been presented. The famous claret jug trophy was hallmarked 1873. Its proper name was to be The Golf Champion Trophy. It was presented to the winner that year and every year for almost half a century. The first Open Champion to receive the new trophy was the 1873 winner, Tom Kidd, but Tom Morris Junior’s name was the first to be engraved on it as the 1872 winner.

In 1920 all responsibility for The Open Championship was handed over to The Royal and Ancient Golf Club. The tradition continued until three months after Bobby Jones won the championship at St Andrews in 1927. At that time the Championship Committee of the R&A decided that “in future the original Open Championship Cup be retained in possession of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club and that a duplicate be obtained for presentation to the winners”. The cost of this duplicate was stated to be about £40. In 1928, Walter Hagen won the third of his four Open titles and accepted the replica Claret Jug, having already been presented with the original in 1922 and 1924. During the half-century in which the original Claret Jug was used, twenty-eight different players held it aloft, including Harry Vardon on a record six occasions. In 1990 a further replica was made for display in the new British Golf Museum at St Andrews and in 2000 a third was made for use in traveling exhibitions, and a fourth was created in 2003 for the same purpose.

Memorable moment: In 1999, Paul Lawrie completed the greatest comeback in Open history, starting the final round 10 strokes off the lead while being assisted by Jean Van de Velde’s unforgettable triple bogey on the 18th hole. This entry was posted in Uncategorized on 145th Open Championship: The Lowdown - European Tour European Tour The Claret Jug at Royal Troon (Getty Images) Related Content The 143rd Open Championship - Sunday Highlights After returning to the ‘Home of Golf’ last week for the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open, the European Tour and the golfing world turn their collective attention to The 145th Open Championship. Here is all you need to know about professional golf’s oldest competition... Rewind America’s Zach Johnson held his nerve to beat Marc Leishman and Louis Oosthuizen in a four-hole play-off to win The Open last year. The 2007 Masters Tournament champion made a crucial birdie at the 18th to sign for a sublime final round of 66 to claim the clubhouse lead at St Andrews.

Leishman also shot 66 to finish on 15 under par alongside Oosthuizen, after the 2010 champion birdied the last. Johnson was pushed all the way by the South African, who narrowly missed a birdie putt at the fourth play-off hole to hand the American his second Major Championship. Bite-sized history The oldest of the four Major Championships, The Open was first played in 1860 at Prestwick’s Old Course. Winners of the event were originally awarded the Challenge Belt, a red leather belt with a silver buckle, but in 1872 three clubs due to host The Open each paid £10 towards a new trophy – the Claret Jug. Since its inception, the tournament has become the most famous golf competition in the world, being played at Britain’s finest links courses. Seven-time Major champion Sam Snead was the first post-war winner of the event in 1946, while Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson, Seve Ballesteros, Sir Nick Faldo, Greg Norman and Tiger Woods are just some of golf’s greatest names who have lifted the Claret Jug on multiple occasions.

Norman holds the record for the lowest score over 72 holes – 267 strokes in 1993 – whilst Woods’ aggregate winning score of 19 under par in 2000 is the lowest by any player in the history of The Open. The field The best players in the world will tee it up at Royal Troon this week. World Number Four Rory McIlroy will play at The Open for the first time since he won the competition in 2014 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club. The Northern Irishman will have to overcome World Number Two Dustin Johnson, who is in red hot form after winning the US Open and the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational in his last two starts. Also looking to add to their Major hauls will be World Numbers One and Three, Jason Day and Jordan Spieth, who both finished one shot outside the play-off at St Andrews last year. Spieth’s compatriots Todd Hamilton, Justin Leonard and Mark Calcavecchia will be returning to Royal Troon with fond memories, having won The Open there in 2004, 1997 and 1989 respectively.

Reigning Masters Tournament winner Danny Willett and 2013 victor Phil Mickelson are two of the other high-profile names in a truly world-class field which contains 31 Major Champions, ten World Number Ones, 17 WGC winners, 22 winners from the 2016 European Tour season and 16 former Open Champions. The course Adjacent to the Firth of Clyde on the South Ayrshire coast, Royal Troon Golf Club offers classic links golf at a legendary venue that is steeped in history. Opened in 1878 this magnificent course is famous for its variety, and can boast to having the longest and shortest holes in Open Championship golf. Known as the Postage Stamp, the par three eighth measures just 123 yards with a tiny green which is only 420 square feet, while the par five sixth is a lengthy 601 yards. Players are advised to make their score on the outward nine, as prevailing north-westerly winds can make the back nine fiendishly difficult.

Tournament Leaderboard Top 10 Oldest Sports Trophies in the World: Oldest trophies Top 10 Oldest Sports Trophies in the World tweet Top 10 Oldest Sports Trophies in the World The history of sports probably extents back to the history of man. Boxing, wrestling and running are among the most ancient sports . Perhaps, competitions using the simple mode of human transport, running, would also have been among the first sports played. Similarly hitting, kicking, throwing a ball like object, as well as sports related to hunting and throwing would also be expected to have been played in early times. The history of sports trophies extents back to mid of 18th century. Before that winners of any competition were awarded with money or land. Sports trophies are most easily defined as a symbol or token of victory. Throughout history, trophies were commonly seen as a token. Trophies are sign of honor and prestige. After a battle, a soldier may have taken a portion of his enemy’s armor or even a body part. Sports trophies made in the form of cups are the oldest form of “man-made” award. Trophies made for the express purpose of honoring an event date back to the mid-18th century.

Here is an overview of the some of the oldest sports trophies in the world. These trophies are still in practice and each of them has a wonderful history behind it. Enjoy browsing. 11. The Challenge Cup 1896 At no 10 in the list of top 10 oldest sports trophies we have the Challenge Cup . It is the one of the most prestigious title in Rugby Football league. It has been held annually since 1896, with the exception of the duration of World War I and the 1939–1940 seasons. The Challenge Cup trophy was designed by silversmiths Fattorini & Sons of Bradford in 1897. The trophy stood 36 inches high manufactured of solid silver and stood on a black ebony base approximately 8 inches deep. The winners of the Cup in looking after the trophy must follow a certain code of practice. When not in a secure cabinet, the trophy must always be in the presence of someone. When the trophy is taken out overnight, somebody must sleep in the same room and if taken in a car there must be two people in attendance.

When it went down to France for some Catalans publicity photos, it even had its own seat on the plane. 10. The Stanley Cup 1893 One of the oldest sports trophies Stanley Cup is the Championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League playoff winner. The first cup was awarded in 1893 to Montreal HC . It has unique properties that it has the names of all of the winning players, coaches, management and club staff engraved on its chalice. Initially, a new band was added each year but it caused the trophy grow in size. The prevent from growing in 1958, the modern Stanley Cup was designed as one piece cup with five-band barrel each containing 13 winning teams per band. When the band is full the oldest band is replaced with new blank band at the bottom. The oldest band is preserved in the Hockey Hall of Fame. It has been referred to as The Cup, Lord Stanley’s Cup, The Holy Grail, or as Lord Stanley’s Mug. The original bowl was made of silver and is 18.5 centimeters in height and 29 centimeters in diameter.

The current Stanley Cup, topped with a copy of the original bowl, is made of a silver and nickel alloy; it has a height of 89.54 centimeters and weighs 15.5 kilograms. 9. Ashes Urn 1882–83 The Ashes series played between Australia and England is perhaps oldest cricket competition in the history of cricket. Similarly Ashes Urn is the oldest cricket trophy in our list of oldest sports trophies in the world. The term Ashes originated in an ironic article published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times , immediately after Australia’s 1882 victory at The Oval, their first Test win on English soil. The article stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The mythical ashes immediately became associated with the 1882–83 series played in Australia, before which the English captain Ivo Bligh had vowed to “regain those ashes”. The English media therefore dubbed the tour the quest to regain the Ashes. The Ashes urn is made of terracotta and about 15 cm tall. It is reputed to contain a burnt cricket bail.

In 1998, Lord Darnley’s 82-year-old daughter-in-law said they were the remains of her mother-in-law’s veil, not a bail. Other evidence suggests a ball. The certain origin of the Ashes, therefore, is the subject of some dispute. The Ashes urn remained with Bligh until his death in 1927 the urn was given to MCC by Lord Darnley’s Australian-born widow, Florence. It can be seen in the cricket museum at Lord’s, together with a red and gold velvet bag, made especially for it, and the scorecard of the 1882 match. The text on the urn is as follows:- When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn; Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return; The welkin will ring loud, The great crowd will feel proud, Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn; And the rest coming home with the urn. 8. Calcutta Cup 1879 Calcutta Cup is the most famous and oldest rugby trophy in the world. It has a wonderful history, beginning in the Indian sub-continent during the 1870s.

In 1878 Calcutta (Rugby) Football Club was forced to close, due to a number of factors: The lack of new blood into the club The rise in popularity of polo in the area The departure from the city of a British army regiment As a consequence, the club withdrew their remaining funds and had a silver trophy produced from 270 melted-down silver rupee coins. The value of these coins was £60. This trophy was then offered to the Rugby Football Union in England for it to be used in any way that the Union saw fit “as the best means of doing some lasting good for the cause of Rugby Football.” The cup itself is of Indian workmanship, decorated with cobras and an elephant. It is now in a fragile state after much mistreatment. 7. Wimbledon Trophy 1877 The oldest tennis trophy is Wimbledon. The world’s first official lawn tennis tournament Wimbledon held at the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club London in 1877. The Gentlemen’s single title was the only competition in the first tournament that is competed by 22 players.

The winner of the tournament was awarded with prize money of 12 guineas plus a silver challenge cup valued at 25 guineas. Spencer Gore is the first winner of Wimbledon. 6. The Scottish Cup 1873–74 The Scottish Cup is the one of the oldest football trophies. It is an annual association football knockout competition for men’s football clubs in Scotland. The competition was first held in 1873–74. It is the oldest national trophy in the world. It was first presented to Queen’s Park, who won the inaugural tournament in 1874. The current holder is St. Johnstone, who won the tournament for the first time by defeating Dundee United 2–0 in the 2014 final. 5. Claret Jug 1872 Claret Jug is one of the oldest sports trophies and is the oldest golf trophy. The Claret Jug is presented the winner of The Open Championship, one of the four major championships in golf.

The awarding of the trophy dates from 1872, when a new trophy was needed after Young Tom Morris had won the original Challenge Belt outright in 1870 by winning Championship thrice in a row. In 1871 there was no event while in 1872 when Morris fourth times won the Championship; the trophy still wasn’t ready to present him although his name was first to be engraved on it. In 1873 Tom Kidd became the first winner to be actually presented with the Claret Jug after winning the Championship. 4. Football Association (FA) Cup 1871–72 The football association cup commonly known as FA Cup is the oldest football trophy . It is an annual knockout cup completion in English football and is the oldest association football completion in the world. The history of FA Cup is extended back to 1871-72, when the first completion was held. The FA was formed there on 26 October 1863.

The captains, secretaries and other representatives of a dozen London and suburban clubs playing their own versions of football met “for the purpose of forming an Association with the object of establishing a definite code of rules for the regulation of the game”. In 1971 the idea is extended to a single knockout competition. The announcement of the birth of ‘The Football Association Challenge Cup’ ran to just 29 words: “That it is desirable that a Challenge Cup should be established in connection with the Association for which all clubs belonging to the Association should be invited to compete”. The rules of the new competition were drafted and at that time 15 clubs registered in the competition while 12 clubs actually competed for the title. Wanderers won the first title of FA Cup, beating Royal Engineers by 1-0. 3. The Americas Cup 1851 America’s Cup is one of the oldest and best-known trophies in international sailing yacht competition. It was first offered as the Hundred Guinea Cup on August 20, 1851, by the Royal Yacht Squadron of Great Britain for a race around the Isle of Wight.

It is called America’s cup because the first competition was won by the America, a 100-foot schooner from New York City. In 1857, the American winners of the cup donated it to the New York Yacht Club for a perpetual international challenge competition. In 1987 the San Diego Yacht Club took control of the U.S. competition. 2. Musselburgh Old Club Cup 1774 Musselburgh Old Club Cup is the oldest sporting trophy in the world still competed on a regular basis since 1774. It is believed that Club Cup is the oldest golf cup still competed for. Mr. Thomson McMillan of Shorthope won the 1st cup in 1774 and became Captain of the club. 1. Scorton Silver Arrow 1673 The Antient Scorton Silver Arrow is the oldest sports award in the world since it is continued from 1673. It is the World’s longest established and oldest recorded sporting event, dating back to 1673 and first shot for in Scorton Village, North Yorkshire. Twenty-two archers competed in the first event for the prize of a silver arrow.

This was won by Henry Calverley of Eryholme on Tees, who had provided the trophy. The event proved so successful that a new organization, the Society of Archers, was formed to hold the event on an annual basis. The competition has continued annually since 1673 (except in periods of various Wars) and celebrated its tri-centenary shoot in 2008. In the competition participants shoot at four-foot (122 cm) five-color face, targets at a range of 100 yards. The winner is the first person to hit the three-inch black spot at the center. The winner is appointed Captain of the Arrow. The first person to hit the red zone is appointed Lieutenant of the Arrow. The winner is presented with a replica of the original silver arrow, which he keeps for a year. The original silver arrow is held at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds.

Share this: The prize: A replica - Sports - Hendersonville Times-News - Hendersonville, NC The prize: A replica Sunday Jul 17, 2016 at 12:01 AM Today on the 18th green of the Royal Troon Golf Club, the “Champion Golfer of the Year” will hoist the Claret Jug. The Claret Jug, or to use its proper name, the Golf Champion Trophy, is presented to each year’s winner of The Open. Yet, the Jug was not the original prize. According to The Open Championship archives, when the Championship began in 1860 at the Prestwick Golf Club in Ayrshire, Scotland, eight professionals assembled for a tournament to determine who would be the Champion golfer. After playing three rounds on the then 12-hole links, Willie Park Sr. beat Old Tom Morris by two shots. Park was then presented with the Challenge Belt, made of Moroccan leather, embellished with a silver buckle and emblems.

A year later, Prestwick announced that the tournament “shall be open to all the world.” The impetus to provide the Challenge Belt had come from the Earl of Eglinton and derived from his interest in medieval pageantry. The Earl was a leader in encouraging sport throughout the social spectrum and played a key part in setting up The Open Championship. He also donated many trophies for competition, but the original Belt was purchased by members of Prestwick Golf Club. In 1870, just 10 years after The Open Championship began, Tom Morris Jr. won for the third consecutive time and became the owner of the Belt, as this was the first rule of the new golf competition. After not reaching a decision about the venues or the involvement of other clubs, The Open Championship was not played in 1871. An agreement was finally reached in 1872 between Prestwick, the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers and The Royal and Ancient Golf Club to host The Open. They decided that the winner would receive a medal and that each of the three clubs would contribute 10 pounds towards the cost of a new trophy, which was to be a silver claret jug, instead of another belt.

This decision was reached too late for the 1872 tournament, which was won again by Morris Jr., who was awarded with a medal inscribed “The Golf Champion Trophy.” The first Open Champion to receive the new trophy was the 1873 winner, Tom Kidd, but Morris Jr.’s name was the first to be engraved on it as the 1872 winner. In 1920, all responsibility for The Open Championship was handed over to the R&A Golf Club. Following the 1927 Open, which was won at St. Andrews by Bobby Jones, the club’s Championship Committee made the decision to retain the Claret Jug in future years and to present the winner with a replica. A circular medal was first introduced in 1893 and was assigned a value of 10 pounds, which was deducted from the advertised purse for the winner. In 1920, the value of the winner’s medal was increased to 25 pounds and deducted from the winner’s share of the prize fund until 1929, when the winner no longer had to “pay” for his medal.

With this year’s winner expected to take home 1.175 million pounds, kicking in an extra 25 pounds for a medal is literally pocket change. Fairways and greens my friend. � The Open Championship - Before The Claret Jug, The Challenge Belt PGA Tour: CareerBuilder Challenge Power Rankings 2d ago Prestwick Golf Club hosted the first Open Championship in 1860 and presented the winner with a handsome red Moroccan leather belt embellished with a silver buckle and emblems, The Challenge Belt. A red leather belt rather than a little silver jug? The impetus to provide the Challenge Belt came from The Earl of Eglinton, a sports enthusiast and driving force in establishing The Open Championship. The Earl had a keen interest in medieval pageantry and donated many trophies for competition, including a gold belt for competition among the Irvine Archers.

Live Feed The Open Championship British Open 2016: Prize money breakdown FanSided The original Challenge Belt was purchased by the members of Prestwick Golf Club and the Rules of the new championship specified precisely how the safekeeping of the Belt would be assured: “The party winning the belt shall always leave the belt with the treasurer of the club until he produces a guarantee to the satisfaction of the above committee that the belt shall be safely kept and laid on the table at the next meeting to compete for it until it becomes the property of the winner by being won three times in succession.” Young Tom Morris wearing the Challenge Belt. Photo credit: The Scottish Golf Book In 1870, the 10th year of The Open Championship, Young Tom Morris won the contest for the third consecutive year and the Challenge Belt became his property. At the 1871 Prestwick annual membership meeting Gilbert Mitchell Innes proposed what would become the rota for The Open.

His reasoning was straightforwardly pecuniary: “In contemplation of St Andrews, Musselburgh and other clubs joining in the purchase of a Belt to be played for over four or more greens it is not expedient for the club to provide a Belt to be played for solely at Prestwick.” Your All Golf. Your inbox. Every Day. Build your own custom daily newsletter with updates on your favorite teams, sent directly to your inbox. Prestwick couldn’t afford to buy another Belt. By 1872 three clubs –Prestwick, the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers and The Royal and Ancient Golf Club — had agreed to rotate hosting The Open and share the cost of a new trophy, a silver claret jug, each club contributing “a sum not exceeding £15 from the funds of the club.” The 1872 winner, again young Tom Morris, received a medal on which was engraved “The Golf Champion Trophy.” For the record, the original claret jug is retained by the R&A and a replica is awarded annually to The Golf Champion. Your All Golf. Your inbox. Every Day. Build your own custom daily newsletter with updates on your favorite teams, sent directly to your inbox.

Question: The Claret Jug is awarded to the winner of which competition?
Answer: The Open Championship