Royal Birkdale Golf Club

Royal Birkdale Golf Club is a golf course in Southport, England. 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 eleven times between 1954 and 2026. 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), Jordan Spieth, and Ryan Fox.

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