9 Best Par Threes on the Open Championship Rota

Ever since eight competitors first encountered Prestwick’s 167-yard 3rd hole—called Tunnel (Red)—at the inaugural Open Championship in 1860, par threes have played a significant role in the outcome of golf’s oldest major tournament. Only 12 holes then, Prestwick expanded to 18 holes in 1882, then fell off the Open Rota after 1925, but its challenging […]

The Ultimate Open Venues & Old Course at St. Andrews Escorted Tour 2025

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LINKS Magazine and PerryGolf are proud to partner for an exceptional nine night, six rounds one-off tour, fully managed for 24 golfers and accompanying non–golfers, who will visit England & Scotland to experience some of the best courses to have hosted The Open Championship. We are thrilled to offer a once-in-a-lifetime golf experience to play […]

Royal Liverpool (Hoylake): Flat Out Great

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Despite, or perhaps because of, its lackluster landscape, Royal Liverpool—better known as Hoylake—can still be counted on to provide a bumpy and exciting Open Championship By the time the opening tee shot is struck at the 151st Open Championship, avid golfers who have consumed every preview they can find will have grown weary of reading […]

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Royal Liverpool

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In anticipation for the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews, we have teamed up with Cookie Jar Golf to produce a series of short films with striking aerial video footage and noteworthy facts on some of golf’s most historic venues. Next year’s Open host, Royal Liverpool Golf Club (or “Hoylake” as it is more affectionately known) […]

My 10 Favorite Holes in England

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There’s somewhere between 35,000 and 40,000 golf holes in England—not Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) nor the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Northern Ireland), but just England—which is a few hundred square miles smaller than Alabama. So, you can imagine how often a bloke who’d played perhaps a quarter of those holes might rethink, […]

18 Exceptional Golf Courses in the Shadow of the Open Championship Venues

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“Why then the world’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.” —The Merry Wives of Windsor Smiling at these words, you put down your book of Shakespeare and fall into a deep sleep. Now begins a remarkably vivid dream that fuses the quote with your other favorite subjects: golf and travel. The dream begins […]

Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake

Regarded by many as the greatest of England’s championship venues, this brutish links is back on the Open rota after a more than three-decade hiatus