Hoylake

Royal Liverpool - called Hoylake by almost everyone on the other side of the Pond - will host the 2014 Open Championship.

Waggle Room Ryan Ballengee 2010

'Tommy Hoylake" Hoylake" It has to be, it has to be-' His eyes were stretching wider and his voice rose higher and higher.

Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971

"His main relaxation was golf," recalls my mother, "but he avoided applying for membership of the Royal Liverpool club in Hoylake because he disliked their snobbery and refusal to admit Jews."

My grandad's store and the end of the high street 2011

"His main relaxation was golf," recalls my mother, "but he avoided applying for membership of the Royal Liverpool club in Hoylake because he disliked their snobbery and refusal to admit Jews."

My grandad's store and the end of the high street 2011

Sounds rather like my day at Hoylake on sunday .... although the windfarms on the horizon leave mr feeling a little uncomfortable ...

Tinplate Saturdays Peter Ashley 2008

“I think the last time was at Hoylake, was that the last time?”

Unplayable Robert Lusetich 2010

While the Northern Ireland boy wonder Rory McIlroy was burning up the Old Course with such record-breaking devastation that the St Andrews fire brigade must have been on alert, and the bookmakers were slashing the odds on the first Open champion from that country since Fred Daly at Hoylake in 1947, it was a day of tribulation for Padraig Harrington, the only other man from across the Irish Sea to win the Claret Jug.

The Open 2010: Padraig Harrington splashes down and misses the boat 2010

He knew full well the last time he and Garcia had been paired had been in the final round at Hoylake three years before.

Unplayable Robert Lusetich 2010

But after Tiger Woods won at Hoylake four years ago, it stopped.

Back in the swing at the Open again thanks to cricket's silly season 2010

I mean, he won everything on the greens, except for the two tournaments he outplayed everyone from fairway to green that was [the British Opens at] St. Andrews in 2000 and Hoylake in 2006, where he really played shotmaker golf.

Words From Golf's Ancient Twitterer 2010