The world’s golfing elite have descended on Royal Birkdale golf course in Southport to compete in the 146th Open Championship. Local hero Tommy Fleetwood had the full backing of spectators on ...

“I feel like this is a golf course where you can't really take it on too much. It dictates to you how you play it. It's so well bunkered, it's so well designed.” Playing to a par of 70 ...

Birkdale, bracketed by sand dunes, has narrow fairways and 123 bunkers, an average of nearly seven per hole. In this age of better golf through technology, courses are constantly being lengthened ...

Royal Birkdale is not among these courses for reasons unknown. Even though it is set near the water, much of its layout is shockingly flat. Here is Ron Whitten of Golf Digest. At Birkdale ...

Royal Birkdale is a links-style golf course close to Southport in Merseyside, which sits on a stretch of linksland that runs for almost 20 miles north of Liverpool. The famous course, which dates ...

Captain of the Royal Birkdale Golf Club Andrew Maxwell, reacts to the news that the course will host The Open in 2026Captain of the Royal Birkdale Golf Club Andrew Maxwell, reacts to the news that ...

The 146th Open Championship is taking place this week at Royal Birkdale in ... is the tenth time the course has hosted what that Daily Mail calls the "world's greatest golf tournament".