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Classic Opening Holes

Royal Birkdale

The leading English course in the GM Top 100 has hosted The Open no fewer than ten times. This peerless links is blessed with some of the finest dunes in the country, and starts with an extremely tough right-to-leftround: £235wd, £265we par 72, 6,381 yards

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