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The Royal Liverpool Golf Club Host of the Open Championship in 2006
By Golf2Win | January 1, 2009
Royal Liverpool has hosted the Open Championship on 10 occasions, and will again in 2006. Roberto di Vicenzo was the most recent winner in 1967. Hoylake has also hosted many top-level amateur competitions including Walker Cups, the Curtis Cup and 18 British Amateur Championships. John Ball, eight times winner of the Amateur Championship and once winner of The Open (1890), is Royal Liverpool’s greatest player. The club’s motto is “Far and Sure”.
This very well maintained and challenging links course, often referred to as Hoylake, is a favourite with amateur and professional golfers alike. As the second oldest seaside links course in England, it commands a special place in Britain’s golfing heritage. The terrain here is reasonably flat and looks benign, with sizable sand dunes featuring on less than half the holes. But don’t think Hoylake lacks bite.
With occasional sea views (the best of them coming at the start of the back-nine), you ll need to focus your full attention on the subtleties of this demanding course and avoiding its twin dangers, punishing rough and excellent bunkering. The opening hole is a knee-trembling bunkerless par-4, a sharp dogleg right with ever-present OB from tee-to-green (a concept replicated at the par-5 16th). As you zig-zag out to the turn, and then play along by the sea from the par-4 9th to the wonderfully bunkered par-3 13th, you’ll begin to understand why this venerable old course commands so much respect with links golf devotees.
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