Tourism Experience of the Year

The Open Championship in 2006
Wirral,
Royal Liverpool Golf Club,
Merseyside,
CH47 4AL

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club has announced that Royal Liverpool Golf Club will host the 2006 Open Championship from 20th to 23rd July. The Open was last played at Hoylake in 1967 when Roberto de Vicenzo of Argentina won his first and only major title. In the years since that historic championship, the demands of The Open in terms of infrastructure, space and traffic management ruled Royal Liverpool out as an Open venue. Now, however, with plans in place as a result of the three-way agreement signed by The Royal and Ancient Golf Club, Royal Liverpool Golf Club and the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, the Open will make a welcome and long-overdue return after a break of 39 years.