Royal Birkdale
Royal Birkdale is hosted The Open for the tenth time, welcoming the world’s greatest golfers to one of the sport’s most renowned and challenging venues.A short history of Royal Birkdale
The course was first established in 1889, but was extensively redesigned in 1922 by Fred Hawtree and JH Taylor to create the current layout, which winds its way through the sand dunes towering over each of the fairways.
Since first hosting The Open in 1954, the course has been (alongside Royal Lytham) the most regular venue for the Championship other than St Andrews. At Birkdale’s first Open, Peter Thomson won the first of three in succession; he returned to the same course in 1965 to add his fifth and final title.