{"id":507,"date":"2023-05-31T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/?p=507"},"modified":"2023-10-06T23:36:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T03:36:20","slug":"royal-birkdale-golf-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/31\/royal-birkdale-golf-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Birkdale Golf Club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Next up was Royal Birkdale Golf Club which is scheduled to hold The Open Championship for the 11<sup>th <\/sup>time in 2026.  It has also hosted the Women&#8217;s Open, The Ryder Cup, The Walker Cup, and The Curtis Cup.  Needless to say, it is a historic course and one that I had really been looking forward to playing.  Unfortunately, I did not play well and due to my frustration did not take a lot of pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2903-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2903-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2903-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2903-rotated.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2904-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2904-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2904-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2904-rotated.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 9<sup>th<\/sup> hole returning to the iconic Royal Birkdale clubhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2905-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2905-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2905-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2905-rotated.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Taken from the 10<sup>th<\/sup> tee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2906-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2906-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2906-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2906-rotated.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2907-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2907-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2907-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2907-rotated.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2908-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2908-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2908-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2908-rotated.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2909-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2909-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2909-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2909-rotated.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Approach shot on 18 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2910-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2910-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2910-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2910-rotated.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Final thoughts:<\/strong>  Of the 3 Open Rota courses we played on this trip, Royal Birkdale without question deserves to be ranked the highest.  It is a definite must-play and hopefully you play better than I did on this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next up was Royal Birkdale Golf Club which is scheduled to hold The Open Championship for the 11th time in 2026. It has also hosted the Women&#8217;s Open, The Ryder Cup, The Walker Cup, and The Curtis Cup. Needless to say, it is a historic course and one that I had really been looking forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-golf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}