Royal Birkdale Golf Club

Royal Birkdale Golf Club

Clubhouse in 2008
Club information
Location in Southport, Merseyside, north of Liverpool, England Show map of Southport Royal Birkdale Golf Club (England) Show map of England
Coordinates	53°37′19″N 3°01′59″W / 53.622°N 3.033°W / 53.622; -3.033
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]