1869 The year that Royal Liverpool Golf Club, also widely known as Hoylake, was founded. For the first seven years of its existence the land on which the course was laid out was also used a horse racing track, which is honoured today with the hole names ‘Course’ and ‘Stand’. The layout of the racecourse is still visible, bordering the 3rd and 18th holes – while the saddling bell can be found in the clubhouse. 12 The number of times […]
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Tiger Woods arrived at Hoylake in the long, hot summer of 2006 on the back of chalking up his first ever missed cut in a major after shooting back-to-back 76s in the US Open. That hurt a man who back then, aged 31, felt that every major golf championship was his to lose – a belief that was drilled into him from boyhood by his father, Earl, who had passed away just two months earlier. Determined to put his lacklustre […]
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Tiger Woods has had an operation on his ankle that is likely to cause him to sit out the rest of the 2023 Major season while he recovers.
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There was intriguing look to the leaderboard after the first round of the 87th Masters, with a three-way tie at the top on comprising Jon Rahm, Viktor Hovland and Brooks Koepka, after the trio fired opening 65s in what saw Augusta National at its most benign.
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Tiger Woods finished his opening round at the PGA Tour's Genesis Invitational with three successive birdies as he returned to competitive golf with a two-under-par 69 in front of rapturous crowds at the Los Angeles venue.
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