Claim: The Royal Birkdale hosts the 2017 Open Championship.

Royal Birkdale Golf Club is a golf course in the United Kingdom in North West England , located in Southport , Merseyside , north of Liverpool . It is one of the clubs in the rotation for both the Open Championship and Women 's British Open and has hosted the Open Championship nine times from 1954 through 2008 , with a tenth scheduled in 2017 . Winners of the Open at the course include Pádraig Harrington , Mark O'Meara , Ian Baker-Finch , Tom Watson , Johnny Miller , Lee Trevino , Arnold Palmer and Peter Thomson -LRB- twice -RRB- .   Royal Birkdale hosted the women 's tournament for a sixth time in 2014 , and was the site of the Senior Open Championship in 2013 . It has also hosted the Ryder Cup -LRB- 1965 , 1969 -RRB- , the Walker Cup -LRB- 1951 -RRB- , and the Curtis Cup -LRB- 1948 -RRB- . Other courses in the Open rota near Liverpool are Royal Liverpool Golf Club -LRB- Hoylake -RRB- and Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club .