The last time that Royal Lytham & St Annes staged The Open was back in 2012. There was a hope that the club might get the nod for the 2026 Open but that has now gone down the coast to Royal Birkdale.
Lytham will celebrate the centenary of their first Open in 1926, when Bobby Jones won the first of his three Claret Jugs, and therefore 1926 had been pencilled in as a possible return to Lytham for the game's oldest Major.
