2012 Women’s Open Is On Schedule
Royal Liverpool Golf Club announced that HE Ricoh Women’s British Open will be held at Hoylake, the first time that the Club has hosted this prestigious Championship.Doing this is to avoid a clash with the London Olympics, the championship moves from its traditional late-July date to September 13-16.
Shona Malcolm, the Ladies’ Golf Union’s chief executive officer, said that they were absolutely delighted to be introducing Royal Liverpool Golf Clubs at Hoylake to the Ricoh British Women’s Open course rotation.
“The Ladies’ Golf Union is committed to playing the Women’s British Open at the best British courses and it is a great coup for the top players to be heading to such an esteemed venue.
“Adding this news to previously announced Carnoustie for 2011 and our return to St Andrews in 2013, we have a thrilling few years ahead of us.” She said. The Royal Liverpool club is the second oldest seaside links golf course in England.Built on a racecourse in 1869, it has played host to some of golf’s most historical moments, including 11 men’s Opens.
In 1930 it was part of American Bobby Jones’s amazing “Grand Slam” of amateur and Open titles on both sides of the Atlantic in the same year, while Woods triumphed amid emotional scenes in 2006 shortly after the death of his father Earl.
The Ricoh Women’s British Open was founded by the Ladies’ Golf Union in 1976 and is staged in conjunction with IMG, the world’s largest sports marketing company. The event has been co-sanctioned by the LPGA and LET since 1994 and gained Major status in 2001.
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