Royal Liverpool Golf Club
Royal Liverpool Golf Club: Robert Chambers, George Morris (1869). Par 72, 7,341 yards. Brian Harman won the 2023 Open Championship here with 271 (−13).
Royal Liverpool Golf Club: Robert Chambers, George Morris (1869). Par 72, 7,341 yards. Brian Harman won the 2023 Open Championship here with 271 (−13).
Royal Liverpool Golf Club: Robert Chambers, George Morris (1869). Par 72, 7,341 yards. Brian Harman won the 2023 Open Championship here with 271 (−13).
Updated October 24, 2026
41 editions on the record, by event, newest first.
The R&A
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | The Open Championship Brian Harman | 271 (−13) | by 6 strokes |
| 2014 | Rory McIlroy | 271 (−17) | by 2 strokes |
| 2006 | Tiger Woods | 270 (−18) | lowest winning score in this event · by 2 strokes |
| 1967 | Roberto De Vicenzo | 278 (−10) | by 2 strokes |
| 1956 | Peter Thomson | 286 (+2) | by 3 strokes |
| 1947 | Fred Daly | 293 (+21) | by 1 stroke |
| 1936 | Alf Padgham | 287 (−9) | by 1 stroke |
| 1930 | Bobby Jones | 291 (+3) | by 2 strokes |
| 1924 | Walter Hagen | 301 | by 1 stroke |
| 1913 | John Henry Taylor | 304 | by 8 strokes |
| 1907 | Arnaud Massy | 312 | by 2 strokes |
| 1902 | Sandy Herd | 307 | by 1 stroke |
| 1897 | Harold Hilton | 314 | by 1 stroke |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Jiyai Shin | 279 (−9) | by 9 strokes · The R&A |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Graham Marsh | 275 (−13) | by 2 strokes · European Tour |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Dai Rees | 281 | by 4 strokes · pre-European Tour |
The R&A
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Stuart Grehan | 1 up | |
| 2000 | Mikko Ilonen | 2 & 1 | |
| 1995 | Gordon Sherry | 7 & 6 | |
| 1975 | Vinny Giles | 8 & 7 | |
| 1969 | Michael Bonallack | 3 & 2 | |
| 1962 | Richard Davies | 1 up | |
| 1953 | Joe Carr | 2 up | |
| 1939 | Alex Kyle | 2 & 1 | |
| 1933 | Michael Scott | 4 & 3 | |
| 1927 | William Tweddell | 7 & 6 | |
| 1921 | Willie Hunter | 12 & 11 | |
| 1910 | John Ball | 10 & 9 | |
| 1906 | James Robb | 4 & 3 | |
| 1902 | Charles Hutchings | 1 up | |
| 1898 | Freddie Tait | 7 & 5 | |
| 1894 | John Ball | 1 up | |
| 1890 | John Ball | 4 & 3 | |
| 1887 | Horace Hutchinson | 1 up | |
| 1885 | Allan Macfie | 7 & 6 |
The R&A
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Kelli Kuehne | 5 & 3 | |
| 1989 | Helen Dobson | 6 & 5 | |
| 1896 | Amy Pascoe | 3 & 2 |
USGA / The R&A
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | United States | 15.5-10.5 | |
| 1983 | United States | 13.5-10.5 |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Great Britain & Ireland | 10-8 | USGA / The R&A |
Bobby Jones won the 1930 Open at Hoylake, the second leg of his Grand Slam of the Amateur and Open Championships of Britain and the United States.
At the 1902 Amateur at Hoylake both finalists used the new rubber-core Haskell ball, and later that year Sandy Herd won the Open there with one, sounding the death knell for the gutty.
Source: Top 100 Golf Courses: Royal Liverpool · Royal Liverpool GC: History Timeline
After Arnaud Massy became the first non-Briton to win the Open, at Hoylake in 1907, he named his daughter Margot Hoylake Massy.
Hoylake's John Ball Jnr, son of the Royal Hotel's owner, won 92 gold medals at Hoylake between 1881 and 1923, including all six in 1887, and in 1890 won both the Open and the Amateur.
The 1st and 18th are named Course and Stand, echoes of the first seven years when the links doubled as a horse-racing track; the original saddling bell still hangs in the clubhouse.
The 16th is called the Dun; Bernard Darwin wrote that its old cross-bunker, removed when Harry Colt altered the course, was one that "the soberest might fall into after dinner".
Harry Colt altered the 11th and 17th holes, named Alps and Royal, and built a new 13th.
Houses border three sides of the flat links and the Dee Estuary lies to the west; the shoreline holes are the 9th to 12th.
The links hosted the first Amateur Championship in 1885, the first England v Scotland international in 1902 and the first Great Britain v USA amateur match in 1921, the prototype Walker Cup.
Robert Chambers, George Morris
Original 9 holes extended to 18
New par-3 hole "Little Eye" built (17th in Open routing; 15th on club card) for the 2023 Open
Source: The Open: Royal Liverpool venue page · Royal Liverpool GC hole 15 page
The PGA Tour and DP World Tour weeks at this course since 2017.
| Year | Event | Winner | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | The Open Championship 20–23 July 2023 | Brian Harman | both |
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