British Open Venues

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