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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.
The 1954 Open Championship was the 90th Open Championship, played 7–9 July at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. Peter Thomson, age 23, won the first of his five Open titles by one stroke over runners-up Bobby Locke, Dai Rees, and Syd Scott. [1] [2] [3] This was the first time the championship was held at Royal Birkdale. [4]
It featured holes inspired by 11 different Open Championship courses, including the Old Course at St Andrews, Royal Liverpool, Hoylake, Royal Lytham & St Annes and Royal Birkdale. [5] The Royal Automobile Club is a Royal club but not a Royal Golf Club, because the Royal Club just happens to have a golf course. [6]
Other parts of Birkdale are included in Dukes ward—which contains a significant part of the village centre and the Royal Birkdale Golf Club—Kew and Ainsdale wards. Birkdale also inspired the name for a new urban mixed use community in the United States twelve miles (19 km) north of Charlotte, North Carolina in Huntersville, North Carolina ...
Royal Birkdale was chosen as the host course in 1940, however, due to the Second World War the event did not go ahead. [11] It was not until 1954 that Royal Birkdale hosted the Open. [12] The Old Course at St Andrews has hosted the most championships with 30 in total, most recently with the 2022 Open Championship.
A popular method of transport is via the Hillside railway station, which opened in May 1926 links the suburb with Southport and Liverpool.The station is very popular in the golfing season or when the Golf Open Championship is held at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club as Hillside station is the nearest train station to Royal Birkdale.
The 1965 Open Championship was the 94th Open Championship, played 7–9 July at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. Peter Thomson won his fifth Claret Jug, two strokes ahead of runners-up Brian Huggett and Christy O'Connor Snr. [2] [3] Thomson's previous Open victory was seven years earlier in 1958. [2] [4] [5]
The 18th Ryder Cup Matches were held 18–20 September 1969 at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. [1] [2] The competition ended in a tie at 16 points each when America's Jack Nicklaus conceded a three-foot (0.9 m) putt to Britain's Tony Jacklin at the 18th hole, [3] [4] in one of the most famous gestures of sportsmanship in all of sports. [5]