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.jpg) Clubhouse in 2008 | |
| Club information | |
|---|---|
   Royal Birkdale Golf Club (England) | |
| Coordinates | 53°37′19″N 3°01′59″W / 53.622°N 3.033°W |
| Location | Southport, England |
| Established | 1889 (1894) |
| Type | Private |
| Total holes | 18 |
| Events hosted | The Open Championship The Amateur Senior British Open Women's British Open |
| Website | royalbirkdale.com |
| Designed by | Frederick G. Hawtree J.H. Taylor |
| Par | 70 |
| Length | 7,156 yards (6,543 m) |
| Par | 72 |
| Length | 6,817 yards (6,233 m) |
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]
- ^ "Branden Grace shoots first 62 in a major". ESPN. 22 July 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2017.