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The Royal St Georges Golf Club

At The Royal St Georges Golf Club (1017145)

Laidlaw Purves designed the course in 1887. The R&A’s course guide notes that some holes retain their original form, making the present links a mixture of enduring nineteenth-century features and later changes.1

Original design
William Laidlaw Purves
Design history
Holes
18
Par
70
Club location
Kent
United Kingdom

Purves’s course and the changing Maiden

The sixth takes its Maiden name from a great dune that Purves associated with the Jungfrau in the Swiss Alps. The landform gives the short hole an identity that extends beyond its yardage and the tournaments played around it.2

Course design

  1. Original design

    William Laidlaw Purves

Hosted competitions

The Open Championship

  1. 2021 The 149th Open
  2. 2011 The 140th Open
  3. 2003 The 132nd Open
  4. 1993 The 122nd Open
  5. 1985 The 114th Open
  6. 1981 The 110th Open
9 more editions
  1. 1949 The 78th Open
  2. 1938 The 73rd Open
  3. 1934 The 69th Open
  4. 1928 The 63rd Open
  5. 1922 The 57th Open
  6. 1911 The 51st Open
  7. 1904 The 44th Open
  8. 1899 The 39th Open
  9. 1894 The 34th Open
Sources and record notes4 references

Sources for this history

  1. Royal St George’s Course Guide The R&A / The Open

    Main historical account, course development and individual-hole descriptions.

    Consulted 2026-09-21
  2. The Maiden The R&A / The Open

    Main historical account, course development and individual-hole descriptions.

    Consulted 2026-09-21

Course record sources

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