Royal Birkdale Golf Club

Royal Birkdale Golf Club Profile

Royal Birkdale Golf Club in the town of Southport in Merseyside, England (but formerly in Lancashire), is one of the clubs in the Open Championship rotation. The club has hosted The Open eight times since 1954, with the next championship to be held in 2008.

Previous winners of the Open at Royal Birkdale are Mark O’Meara, Ian Baker-Finch, Tom Watson, Johnny Miller, Lee Trevino, Arnold Palmer and Peter Thomson (on two separate occasions). Birkdale is the only course in the Open rotation that has never had a champion from the United Kingdom.

Royal Birkdale has also hosted the Ryder Cup, the Walker Cup, and the Curtis Cup.

Ryder Cup Scores:

1965: United States 19½ – 12½ Great Britain
1969: United States 16 – 16 Great Britain

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