In a golf year mired with conflict and controversy, we have finally made it to the final major of the year. The Open Championship returns to Royal Liverpool, a historic track in the small, coastal, English town of Hoylake. After a fifty-plus year absence, Royal Liverpool was given another chance to host an Open in 2006, which was won by an emotional Tiger Woods in the wake of the loss of his father.
The Open returned to Liverpool in 2014, where a young and brazen Rory McIlroy bludgeoned the windswept track to oblivion, averaging nearly 330 yards off the tee and triumphing over Rickie Fowler and Sergio Garcia.
