Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Over 150 Years of Championship History [Editor’s Note: This article also appears at Golf Course Trades. Our Indomitable Sportsman Jay Flemma takes us back to northwest England’s Royal Liverpool Golf Club, this time for a walk though over 150 years of golf history. Click here for last month’s breakdown of the golf course and its design.]...
Stay tuned for more articles from the first UK trip. In the meantime, Golf Course Trades did a marvelous job – as usual – running my Insider’s Guide to Royal Liverpool story. Hoylake is an imperative for any budding golf historian or golf architect. The golf is a cracking good time – difficult without being impossible, challenging, but not...
[Editor’s Note: Our Indomitable Sportsman, Jay Flemma, has returned from northwest England’s fabled Golf Coast with stories from their Open Championship venues and more. In this column, he analyzes the golf architecture of Royal Liverpool Golf Club, perennial Open Championship venue since 1897.] HOYLAKE, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – The tang of the salty sea air, the soft...
Open Championship coverage this year at JF.com, Golf News Net, Golf Course Trades, and Jay Flemma Sports Report on iHeartRadio will be a lot different this year. We’ll be live from the UK. “Grazie dio!” as we say in Italian. Better still, plans are a deep dive into not only the the Open Rota venues, but a smattering of the best of the rest as well...