Royal Liverpool, Hoylake

The club was founded in 1869 on what was then the Liverpool Hunt Club's racecourse, and became Royal in 1871. Robert Chambers and George Morris, Old Tom's younger brother, laid out the first holes; Harry Colt redesigned the course early in the twentieth century. The Open has been played here thirteen times, most recently in 2023, and Bobby Jones won the second leg of his 1930 Grand Slam on this ground.

Hoylake's standing rests as much on the amateur game: the first Amateur Championship in 1885, the first England–Scotland match in 1902, and in 1921 the match against the United States that became the Walker Cup. The course is a flat seaside links, 7,341 yards, open to the wind off the Dee estuary with almost nothing to break it.