Royal Birkdale Golf Club

Founded as Birkdale Golf Club in 1889, the club was awarded "Royal" status in 1951. Birkdale Golf Club moved to a new site in Birkdale Hills in 1894, 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…

The Open Championship was first held at Royal Birkdale in 1954 and has hosted ten times. {| class="wikitable" !rowspan=2|Year!!rowspan=2|Winner!!rowspan=2|Par!!colspan=5|Score!!rowspan=2|Winner's<br />share (£) |- ! R1 !! R2 !! R3 !! R4 !! Total |- |1954 || Peter Thomson ^1st|| align=center|73 || 72||71||69||71||283 (−9)||align=right|750 |- |1961 || Arnold Palmer ^1st|| align=center|72 || 70||73||69||72||284 (−4)||align=right|1,400 |- |1965 || Peter Thomson ^5th||align=center|73||74||68||72||71||285 (−7)||align=right|1,750 |- |1971 || Lee Trevino ^1st||align=center|73||69||70||69||70||278 (−14)||align=right|5,500 |- |1976 || Johnny Miller…