Golf Courses: Top 30 in the World

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Bobby Jones won the first Open Championship held at Royal Lytham & St. Annes back in 1926

#19. Royal Lytham & St. Annes

Established: 1886

Location: Lytham St. Annes, Lancaster, England

Designed: George Lowe, Harry Colt

Type: Private

Par: 70

Length: 7,118 yards (6,509 meters)

Royal Lytham & St. Annes is the kind of course that rewards you greatly for hitting your ball in the right spots, but when you don’t there is trouble ahead.

The heather and gorse are very punishing, and if you don’t hit it there, there are 204 bunkers all around the course just waiting to greet you. It’s a short course, but accurate, ball-striking is essential to making your way around Royal Lytham & St. Annes.

Bobby Jones won the first Open Championship held at Royal Lytham & St. Annes back in 1926.

Royal Lytham & St. Annes has hosted The Open Championship a total of eleven times, and it has hosted the Women’s British Open four times since 1998.

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