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Direction of sporting venue (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

course

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'direction' is the definition.
(I know that course is a type of direction)

'of sporting venue' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'of' could be 'o' and 'o' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'curse' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for course that I've seen before include "Route; studies" , "Part of a meal (par for this?)" , "soup?" , "Route; dish" , "Channel" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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