Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club

Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club is situated near the Merseyside (formerly Lancashire) towns of Southport and Ainsdale on the north west coast of England, not far North of the city of Liverpool. It has an 18-hole Championship course set amongst ranges of tall sandhills and smaller sand dunes.

It was founded in 1906 and hosted the Ryder Cup in 1933 and 1937. It has also staged many other notable tournaments, including the 2005 Amateur Championship, and is on the roster for Final Qualifying tournaments for The Open Championship. As of 2009 the club professional is former European Tour golfer Jim Payne.

External links

Official site

Coordinates: 53°36′19″N 3°02′06″W / 53.6053°N 3.0351°W / 53.6053; -3.0351

Venues of the Ryder Cup

Worcester Country Club, Worcester, Massachusetts (1927)
Moortown Golf Club, Leeds (1929)
Scioto Country Club, Upper Arlington, Ohio (1931)
Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club, Southport (1933 & 1937)
Ridgewood Country Club, Paramus, New Jersey (1935)
Portland Golf Club, Raleigh Hills, Oregon (1947)
Ganton Golf Club, Ganton, North Yorkshire (1949)
Pinehurst Resort, Pinehurst, North Carolina (1951)
Wentworth Club, Virginia Water, Surrey (1953)
Thunderbird Country Club, Rancho Mirage, California (1955)
Lindrick Golf Club, Lindrick, South Yorkshire (1957)
Eldorado Country Club, Indian Wells, California (1959)
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire (1961 & 1977)
East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia (1963)
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, Merseyside (1965 & 1969)
Champions Golf Club, Houston, Texas (1967)
Old Warson Country Club, St. Louis, Missouri (1971)
Muirfield, Gullane, East Lothian (1973)
Laurel Valley Golf Club, Ligonier, Pennsylvania (1975)
The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (1979)
Walton Heath Golf Club, Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey (1981)
PGA National Golf Club, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida (1983)
The Belfry, Wishaw, Warwickshire (1985, 1989, 1993 & 2002)
Muirfield Village, Dublin, Ohio (1987)
Kiawah Island Golf Resort, Kiawah Island, South Carolina (1991)
Oak Hill Country Club, Pittsford, New York (1995)
Valderrama Golf Club, Sotogrande, Andalusia (1997)
The Country Club, Brookline, Massachusetts (1999)
Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (2004)
K Club, Straffan, County Kildare (2006)
Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, Kentucky (2008)
Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, Wales (2010)
Medinah Country Club, Medinah, Illinois (2012)
Gleneagles, Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross (2014)
Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minnesota (2016)
Le Golf National, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Île-de-France (2018)

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