Royal Liverpool (Hoylake) Golf Club is among the toughest and most demanding of the great seaside championship links. Built in 1869, on what was then the racecourse of the Liverpool Hunt Club, Hoylake is the oldest of all the English seaside courses with the exception of Westward Ho! in Devon, which pre-dated it by only a few years.

Hoylake is synonymous with British golf history - in 1885 the first Amateur Championship was held here, in 1902 the first International match between England and Scotland, and, in 1921, the first International match between Great Britain and the United States of America, which we now know as The Walker Cup.

It was also at Hoylake in 1930 that the legendary Bobby Jones won the second leg of his famous "Grand Slam" when he won the Amateur and Open Championships of both Britain and the United States in the same year. Shortly afterwards he retired from the game at the age of 28.

The British Open returned to Royal Liverpool in 2006, with Tiger Woods winning.