McIlroy is desperate to win another Open at Hoylake. Peter Thomson of Australia waves a club as he walks off the eighteenth green at Hoylake, Liverpool on 6 July 1956, after winning the British Open Golf Championship for the third time.
Meanwhile, LIV Tour chief executive Greg Norman is adamant his tour will continue as usual. The devil of the merger will be in the detail. Players who did not join the rebel tour, under the threat that they would never be allowed back to the PGA Tour – and so lost the opportunity to make tens of millions of dollars – are talking about reparations. A recent announcement that the US PGA Tour and the rebel, Saudi-backed LIV Tour will merge at an unspecified date, under unspecified conditions, has tongues wagging. The world’s best golfers will gather for 2023’s final major championship, their last chance this year for golfing immortality.īut there will be simmering tensions. The Open returns to Hoylake on July 20-23. Tiger Woods of USA poses with the claret jug in front of the media following his two shot victory at the end of the final round of The Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club on Jin Hoylake, England. Both events were hugely successful, and Hoylake secured itself back in the Open Championship fold. Eight years later the Open returned again, Irishman Rory McIlroy winning by two shots over Rickie Fowler and Sergio Garcia. When the Open returned to Hoylake in 2006, Tiger Woods put on a masterclass, shooting 18 under par on a dry, running course to win by two shots over his compatriot, Chris DiMarco.
For reasons mostly lost in the sands of time, the golf course that will host this year’s Open Championship, Royal Liverpool on the Lancashire coast – known also as Hoylake – disappeared from the Open rota in 1967 and remained in the wilderness for 39 years.
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