Open Championship practice round pictures from Turnberry

Pictures of some of the golf's finest players tacking the Turnberry Ailsa Course - some of them for the first time during a practice round on the famed Ayrshire links, including Padraig Harrington and Tiger Woods.

James Mason is a senior contributor for Golf Monthly magazine and editor of planetgolfreview.com and has producing destination and equipment reviews for Golf Monthly, Greenside, and Middle East Golfer magazines. He has also produced destination features for Golf World and Going for Golf magazines and interviews for Middle East Golfer and Qatar Airlines. James was captain of Coventry university golf team and now plays off a 5 handicap.