British Open Championship
Report by Tom Scott
From the Royal Lytham St. Annes Golf Club
When it was decided after the first World War to extend the championship rota beyond the traditional six courses to which it had previously been restricted, the Royal Lytham St. Annes course was the first to be added to the list. Many historic matches have been played over its testing eighteen holes. Bobby Jones won his first British championship there, and the course was the scene of the Amateur Championship of 1935 when the American Lawson Little beat Dr. William Tweddell on the last green.
It was on the Club's original nine-hole course that the Ladies' Championship was inaugurated in 1893.