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Royal Liverpool

Open Soon!
13 - 20 July 2014
Royal Liverpool Golf Club will host The Open
Championship in 2014. It will be the 12th time the
Hoylake links has hosted golf’s oldest Major.
The venue has witnessed a string of unique Open

to his unprecedented and unmatched Grand Slam.

Champions: in 1907, Arnaud Massy became the

In 1885, Hoylake hosted the inaugural Amateur

only Frenchman to have won the title; Fred Daly

Championship — the first of 17 to date — and, in

became the first Irishman to do so, in 1947; and

1921, it staged the first international match be-

Argentine golfer Roberto De Vicenzo became the

tween Great Britain and the USA, a contest which

first South American to win a Major when he lifted

would later become the Walker Cup Match.

the Claret Jug in 1967. When The Open returned
to Hoylake in 2006 after a 39-year