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Herb Kohler, Chairman and CEO of Kohler Co., through a subsidiary,  The Old Course Limited, has purchased Hamilton Hall of St. Andrews, Scotland, one of the most photographed buildings in the world of golf.

The building, to the right of the Swilken Burn Bridge and the Old Course’s 18th fairway,  was featured in the film “Chariots of Fire” and in global television coverage of tournaments played on the Old Course, which will be the venue for the 2010 British Open.

Kohler, who built Whistling Straits and the Irish Club in Kohler, Wis., has restored other historic buildings. He plans to restore the former hotel and one-time St. Andrews college dormitory as a lodging establishment. the four-story red-brick building opened as a hotel in 1895.

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