Ever since the PGA Championship was bumped up to May, golf's final major of the calendar year has had an international flavor. The Open Championship is annually played in the U.K., traveling between storied course after storied course, and this year is no exception.
But one golfer has more history there than others.
Rory McIlroy will hope to find the same success he found in 2014, when he won the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool. It has been nine years since McIlroy last won a major, but he has been playing some of his best golf this year and enters as one of the favorites to earn the Claret Jug this weekend.
Cameron Smith was last year's champion, outlasting Cameron Young and McIlroy to win a tightly contested tournament. Expect the environment to be tense yet again as McIlroy tries to win the Open Championship at this course for the second time.
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Here's what you need to know about where the Open Championship is being played, as well as course details for the weekend:
Where is the Open Championship in 2023?
- Course: Royal Liverpool Golf Club
- Location: Hoylake, Merseyside, England
The 2023 Open Championship will be played at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, Merseyside, England. The club opened in 1869 — nine years after the first Open Championship — and was later redesigned by golf architect Harry Colt.
Royal Liverpool is no stranger to The Open, having hosted the event 12 times. But 10 of those tournaments took place before 1968. The Open returned to Royal Liverpool in 2006, when Tiger Woods captured the win in the second of consecutive victories. McIlroy won the 2014 iteration.
Royal Liverpool has hosted The Amateur Championship 18 times, as recently as 2000, and hosted the Women's British Open in 2012.
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Below is a list of Open Championships hosted by Royal Liverpool.
| Year | Champion |
| 1897 | Harold Hilton |
| 1902 | Sandy Herd |
| 1907 | Arnaud Massy |
| 1913 | J.H. Taylor |
| 1924 | Walter Hagen |
| 1930 | Bobby Jones |
| 1936 | Alf Padgham |
| 1947 | Fred Daly |
| 1956 | Peter Thomson |
| 1967 | Roberto De Vicenzo |
| 2006 | Tiger Woods |
| 2014 | Rory McIlroy |
| 2023 | TBD |
Royal Liverpool Golf Club course details
- Par: 71
- Distance: 7,383 yards
Royal Liverpool's most interesting holes might be its final two. The 17th hole is a newly designed par-3 with a beautiful view and a distance of just 136 yards. Immediately following the 17th is a 609-yard, par-5 18th hole that will present a challenge to any golfer looking to finish the day on a high note — or even win the Open Championship on Sunday.
Here is a complete look at the course details, including the distance for each hole.
| Hole | Par | Yards |
| 1 | 4 | 459 |
| 2 | 4 | 453 |
| 3 | 4 | 426 |
| 4 | 4 | 367 |
| 5 | 5 | 520 |
| 6 | 3 | 201 |
| 7 | 4 | 481 |
| 8 | 4 | 436 |
| 9 | 3 | 218 |
| OUT | 35 | 3,561 |
| 10 | 4 | 507 |
| 11 | 4 | 392 |
| 12 | 4 | 449 |
| 13 | 3 | 194 |
| 14 | 4 | 454 |
| 15 | 5 | 620 |
| 16 | 4 | 461 |
| 17 | 3 | 136 |
| 18 | 5 | 609 |
| IN | 36 | 3,822 |
| TOTAL | 71 | 7,383 |
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Future Open Championship sites
| Year | Site | Last hosted |
| 2024 | Royal Troon Golf Club | 2016 |
| 2025 | Royal Portrush Golf Club | 2019 |
Only two future Open Championship sites are known at this time.
The tournament will head to Royal Troon Golf Club in 2024, eight years after Henrik Stenson won at the course. Royal Portrush Golf Club will host The Open for only the third time in 2025 after returning there in 2019 for the first time since 1951. Shane Lowry, from nearby Ireland, captured his first major title at the event.
