Lancashire, United Kingdom

Royal Lytham And St Annes Golf Club (1014268)

Royal Lytham’s first Open in 1926 produced Bobby Jones’s first victory in the championship. The Club recalls that Jones forgot his competitor’s ticket before the final round and paid for spectator admission to regain entry.

Course: 18 holes · par 70
Original architect: George Lowe

The course

Royal Lytham And St Annes Golf Club18 holes · par 70

Course design

George LoweOriginal design · Royal Lytham And St Annes Golf Club

Harry ColtRenovation · Royal Lytham And St Annes Golf Club · 1919

An Open venue with memorable arrivals

In 1952, eventual winner Bobby Locke faced another unexpected obstacle: his clubs were locked inside a garage with his car. The Club’s history credits a passing milkman with helping him obtain the key in time to reach the first tee.

Championships

View all 17 past editions

Results and dates 17 editions

The Open Championship

1926
The 61st Open
Robert T. Jones Jr.
1952
The 81st Open
Bobby Locke
1958
The 87th Open
Peter Thomson
1963
The 92nd Open
Bob Charles
1969
The 98th Open
Tony Jacklin
1974
The 103rd Open
Gary Player
1979
The 108th Open
Seve Ballesteros
1988
The 117th Open
Seve Ballesteros
1996
The 125th Open
Tom Lehman
2001
The 130th Open
David Duval
2012
The 141st Open
Ernie Els

The Senior Open Championship

1991
Bobby Verwey
July 11–14, 1991
1992
John Fourie
July 23–26, 1992
1993
Bob Charles
July 22–25, 1993
1994
Tom Wargo
July 20–23, 1994

The Amateur Championship

1986
David Curry
2007
Drew Weaver

Sources and editorial notes7 references

Sources for this story

The Open Championship Royal Lytham and St Annes Golf Club
Main historical account, course development and individual-hole descriptions.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Passages:Introduction An Open venue with memorable arrivals, paragraph 2

Record sources

Course
The Open Records and Statistics The official Champion Golfers register directly enumerates this playing with ordinal, venue, and champion. Historical venue and champion spellings follow that register; any trailing parenthesized win count is occurrence metadata and is not part of the recorded winner name. The official Previous Opens decade record independently cross-checks the reviewed identity. Dates are null because the reviewed register does not state them, and no date was inferred.
The Open: championship venues The official Open venue directory, historical guide, and named Course evidence bind this continuing venue identity. Historical routing and scoring conditions are not replaced by current scorecard values. Championship venue source: www.theopen.com; Club location source: www.theopen.com. The 2026 Royal Birkdale result is separately verified by the bound final-round report.
2007 · The R&A: official Amateur championship results R&A official results book, 2007, PDF pages 329–332. Reported book dates retained in the source facts only until competitive-day boundaries are corroborated. This selected chronology is incomplete.
The R&A: Championships and International Matches 1984–2012, edited by Peter N. Lewis PDF page 501, printed 500, 1994 entry: The Senior Open Championship. The source marks this edition unofficial in the Champions Tour record; the championship was played.
1986 · The R&A: official Amateur championship results R&A official results book, 1986, PDF pages 245–248. Reported book dates retained in the source facts only until competitive-day boundaries are corroborated. This selected chronology is incomplete.