British Open Venues
July 17, 2008
While the U.S. Open traditionally has been a movable feast, the British Open gets around, too.
Through 2008, 14 different golf courses will have hosted The Open Championship since 1860. Seven of those are in Scotland, six in England, and one in Northern Ireland. Each is a links course, as mandated by the Championship Committee.
This year’s venue, Royal Birkdale, hosts The Open for a ninth time after opening its doors to the event most recently in 1998.
Here’s a list of Open venues, with location and the years each served as the site:
Royal Birkdale (Southport, Merseyside, England): 1954, 1961, 1965, 1971, 1976, 1983, 1991, 1998, 2008.
Carnoustie (Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland): 1931, 1937, 1953, 1968, 1975, 1999, 2007
Muirfield (Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland): 1892, 1896, 1901, 1906, 1912, 1929, 1935, 1948, 1959, 1966, 1972, 1980, 1987, 1992, 2002
Musselburgh (Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland): 1874, 1877, 1880, 1883, 1886, 1889
Prestwick (Prestwick, Ayshire, Scotland): 1860-1870, 1872, 1875, 1878, 1881, 1884, 1887, 1890, 1893, 1898, 1903, 1908, 1914, 1925
Prince’s (Sandwich, Kent, England): 1932
Royal Cinque Ports (Deal, Kent, England): 1909, 1920
Royal Liverpool (Hoylake, Wirral, England): 1897, 1902, 1907, 1913, 1924, 1930, 1936, 1947, 1956, 1967, 2006
Royal Lytham and St. Annes (Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire, England): 1926, 1952, 1958, 1963, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1988, 1996, 2001, 2012
Royal Portrush (Portrush, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland): 1951
Royal St. George’s (Sandwich, Kent, England): 1894, 1899, 1904, 1911, 1922, 1928, 1934, 1938, 1949, 1981, 1985, 1993, 2003, 2011
Royal Troon (Troon, Ayshire, Scotland): 1923, 1950, 1962, 1973, 1982, 1989, 1997, 2004
St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland): 1873, 1876, 1879, 1882, 1885, 1888, 1891, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1921, 1927, 1933, 1939, 1946, 1955, 1957, 1960, 1964, 1970, 1978, 1984, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010
Turnberry (Turnberry, Ayshire, Scotland): 1977, 1986, 1994, 2009
Source: Opengolf.com



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