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Golf course in the United Kingdom
Royal Birkdale Golf Club is a golf course in the United Kingdom in North West England , located in Southport , Merseyside . It is one of the clubs in the rotation for both the Open Championship and Women's British Open and has hosted the Open Championship ten times from 1954 through 2017 . Winners of the Open at the course include Pádraig Harrington , Mark O'Meara , Ian Baker-Finch , Tom Watson , Johnny Miller , Lee Trevino , Arnold Palmer , Peter Thomson (twice) and Jordan Spieth . The course is scheduled to hold Open Championship again in 2026.
Royal Birkdale hosted the women's tournament for a sixth time in 2014 , and was the site of the Senior Open Championship in 2013 . It has also hosted the Ryder Cup (1965 , 1969 ), the Walker Cup (1951), and the Curtis Cup (1948). Other courses in the Open rota near Liverpool are Royal Liverpool Golf Club (Hoylake) and Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club .
On 22 July 2017, in the third round of the 2017 Open Championship , Branden Grace became the first man in major championship history to record a score of 62 in a single round.[1]
History [ edit ]
Founded 135 years ago as Birkdale Golf Club in 1889, the club was awarded "Royal" status in 1951.[2] Birkdale Golf Club moved to a new site in Birkdale Hills in 1894,[2] and built a new distinctive art deco clubhouse in 1935.[2] In early 1939, Birkdale was nominated as the venue for the 1940 Open Championship[3] but the Second World War started in September 1939 and the Championship was cancelled.
In 1946, the club finally hosted its first big championship in the Amateur Championship , won by Irishman Jimmy Bruen . During the immediate postwar era, the club also hosted the 1948 Curtis Cup and the 1951 Walker Cup , both won by the United States . With these successful stagings of important events, Royal Birkdale was felt to be ready for its first Open Championship in 1954 and has continued on the Open rota ever since.
Three generations of the Hawtree family of golf course architects have worked on the course.[4] Frederick G. Hawtree and champion golfer J.H. Taylor are the two people most responsible for the current routing,[4] following the valleys between the very large dunes which dominate the property. The arrangement makes for excellent spectator conditions during major events. Frederick W. Hawtree, the son of Frederick G, performed some modifications in the 1960s and in 1993 Martin Hawtree , son of Frederick W., improved and modernised the layout further, with all 18 of the club's greens being completely rebuilt, to improve turf and drainage following the 1991 Open Championship.[5] Only relatively minor tweaking, such as the addition of a few new bunkers and back tees, has been deemed necessary in advance of the last two Open Championships.[6] The course was ranked as the 18th best in the world outside the United States , in the 2007 rankings by Golf Digest magazine.[7]
During the 1960s, the club hosted the Ryder Cup twice, in 1965 and in 1969 . The United States won in 1965 by the score of 19½–12½, but in 1969 the competition ended in a 16–16 tie when Jack Nicklaus generously conceded a short putt to Tony Jacklin to halve their match, which later became known as "The Concession." As defending champions in a tie, the U.S. retained the trophy; they kept it for another sixteen years, until 1985 .
In 2013 , the club hosted the Senior Open Championship .[8] [9]
Open Championship [ edit ]
The Open Championship was first held at Royal Birkdale in 1954 and has hosted ten times.
Year
Winner
Par
Score
Winner's share (£ )
R1
R2
R3
R4
Total
1954
Peter Thomson 1st
73
72
71
69
71
283 (−9)
750
1961
Arnold Palmer 1st
72
70
73
69
72
284 (−4)
1,400
1965
Peter Thomson 5th
73
74
68
72
71
285 (−7)
1,750
1971
Lee Trevino 1st
73
69
70
69
70
278 (−14)
5,500
1976
Johnny Miller
72
72
68
73
66
279 (−9)
7,500
1983
Tom Watson 5th
71
67
68
70
70
275 (−9)
40,000
1991
Ian Baker-Finch
70
71
71
64
66
272 (−8)
90,000
1998
Mark O'Meara
70
72
68
72
68
280 (E )PO
300,000
2008
Pádraig Harrington 2nd
70
74
68
72
69
283 (+3)
750,000
2017
Jordan Spieth
70
65
69
65
69
268 (−12)
1,420,000
Note: For multiple winners of The Open Championship, superscript ordinal identifies which in their respective careers.
The Open began paying in U.S. dollars in 2017,[10] subsequent figures in pounds are rounded estimates.
Women’s British Open [ edit ]
Winners of the Women's British Open at Royal Birkdale. The course was the first on the men's rota to be placed into the women's rota.
Notes
For multiple winners of the Women's British Open, superscript ordinal identifies which in their respective careers.
Years in bold signify editions that were recognised as majors by the LPGA Tour (2001 –present). Since its inception in 1979, the Ladies European Tour (LET) has recognised the Women's British Open as a major.
Scorecard [ edit ]
Royal Birkdale Golf Club
[11]
Tee
Rating /Slope
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Out
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
In
Total
2017 Open
Championship
448
422
451
199
346
499
177
458
416
3416
402
436
183
499
200
542
438
567
473
3740
7156
Par
Championship
4
4
4
3
4
4
3
4
4
34
4
4
3
4
3
5
4
5
4
36
70
Par
Men's
4
4
4
3
4
5
3
4
4
35
4
4
3
4
3
5
4
5
5
37
72
White
450
418
406
200
343
488
177
413
410
3305
408
378
181
433
199
544
370
527
472
3512
6817
Yellow
430
397
373
179
316
475
140
398
400
3105
355
352
159
422
157
499
358
509
465
3276
6355
Women's
418
391
327
164
304
440
114
356
358
2872
358
317
145
422
137
392
293
452
441
2957
5829
Par
Women's
5
4
4
3
4
5
3
4
4
36
4
4
3
5
3
5
4
5
5
38
74
Lengths of the course for previous Opens:[12]
2017 : 7,156 yards (6,543 m ), par 70
2008 : 7,173 yards (6,559 m ), par 70
1998 : 7,018 yards (6,417 m ), par 70
1991 : 6,940 yards (6,346 m ), par 70
1983 : 6,968 yards (6,372 m ), par 71
1976 : 7,001 yards (6,402 m ), par 72
1971 : 7,080 yards (6,474 m ), par 73
1965 : 7,037 yards (6,435 m ), par 73
1961 : 6,844 yards (6,258 m ), par 72[13]
1954 : 6,867 yards (6,279 m ), par 73[14]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ a b c "Royal Birkdale Golf Club - Club History" . Retrieved 9 July 2012 .
^ "Golf Championships for 1940". The Times . 21 January 1939. p. 4.
^ a b "Hawtree Limited - Projects: Royal Birkdale Golf Course" . Retrieved 9 July 2012 .
^ "Hawtree Limited - Royal Birkdale Golf Course" . Retrieved 9 July 2012 .
^ British Open Preview 2008 , by Ronald Whitten, Golf Digest magazine, July 2008.
^ Golf Digest magazine, May 2007.
^ "Senior Open Championship presented by Rolex – Results" . European Tour. Retrieved 23 February 2022 .
^ "Past results, The Senior Open" . PGA Tour. Retrieved 23 February 2022 .
^ "Open Championship: Royal Birkdale prize money to be paid in US dollars, not sterling" . BBC.com . 5 July 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2017 .
^ "Scorecard" . Royal Birkdale Golf Club. Retrieved 17 July 2012 .
^ "Media guide" . The Open Championship. 2011. p. 203. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2012 .
^ "Palmer takes British crown" . Eugene Register-Guard . Associated Press. 16 July 1961. p. 1B.
^ "Peter Thomson wins British Open with 283" . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Associated Press. 10 July 1954. p. 11.
External links [ edit ]
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Worcester Country Club , Worcester, Massachusetts (1927)
Moortown Golf Club , Leeds (1929)
Scioto Country Club , Upper Arlington, Ohio (1931)
Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club , Southport (1933, 1937)
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