The Open Championship has been contested 12 times at Royal Liverpool. Firstly, way back in 1897 and, most recently in 2014 when Rory McIlroy was the victor. As you might expect with improvements in equipment and advances in player technique and performance, the scoring has improved fairly significantly in the 126 years since the grand old championship first visited Hoylake.
In fact, there’s a full 44 strokes between the lowest and highest winning Open scores at Royal Liverpool. Of course the conditions play a major role and in any championship when the wind blows and the heavens open, the scoring tends to go up. But generally speaking, scoring has steadily improved over the decades.
