The Royal Liverpool Golf Club's Hoylake course in northwest England will stage the 2014 British Open, the Royal and Ancient (R and A) club, the tournament's organizers, announced Tuesday. It will be the 12th time that Hoylake hosts the oldest of golf's four ‘Majors' and the only one played outside the United States. Tiger Woods won the last Open at Royal Liverpool in 2006 when he became the first back-to-back winner of the title since fellow American Tom Watson in 1983 as the tournament returned to the course after a 39-year absence. Hoylake has been the venue for some notable British Open successes. The British Open, or The Open as traditionalists insist it be called, is always played on a links or coastal course. The 2011 edition will take place at Royal St. George's in Kent, south-east England and in 2012 will be staged at Royal Lytham and St. Annes, which is itself close to Hoylake on the northwest coast of England. Scotland will again stage the British Open in 2013 when the tournament returns to Muirfield near Edinburgh.
