Carnoustie the Championship course, on which several international tournaments are held, the Burnside course and the Buddon course. Carnoustie Golf Links is one of the venues in The Open Championship's rotation. The course first played host to The Open in 1931, when it was won by Tommy Armour of the USA. Subsequent winners have included Henry Cotton of England in 1937, Ben Hogan of the USA in 1953, Gary Player of South Africa in 1968, Tom Watson of the USA in 1975, Paul Lawrie of Scotland in 1999, Pádraig Harrington of Ireland in 2007, and Francesco Molinari of Italy in 2018.
Lawrie & Co by Vincent van Gogh might have passed through the hands of Lawrie & Co in the end of the 1880s. A letter from Theo van Gogh to Lawrie & Co. hints at such a sale (which would have been only the second known sale during the artists’s lifetime). But the transaction does not show up in extant Lawrie & Co. record books and the letter may be a forgery. Moreover, the letter was addressed to Sulley and "Lori" of London in 1888, well before Lawrie & Co. had set up its London offices. The Lawries opened their London gallery Lawrie