SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – Like a dream from which you never want to wake, a walk amidst the heaving dunes and rumpled fairways of Royal Birkdale is a golfer’s greatest wish come to life. The sting of the salty spray in your nostrils, the wild, whirling winds whipping the flag, and the fairways winding through the mighty dunes like pathways through a maze: a...
[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...