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Golf club in Merseyside, England
Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club is an 18-hole championship golf course in North West England , situated near the Merseyside (formerly Lancashire ) towns of Southport and Ainsdale , north of Liverpool . The course is near the coast of the Irish Sea , set amongst ranges of tall sandhills and smaller sand dunes, just south of Royal Birkdale Golf Club .
Founded 118 years ago in 1906, the club hosted the Ryder Cup in 1933 and 1937 .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] It has also staged many other notable tournaments, including the 2005 Amateur Championship with Royal Birkdale, the 2018 Bearfight Invitational, and is on the roster for Final Qualifying tournaments for The Open Championship . As of 2019, the club professional is former European Tour golfer Jim Payne .[ 5]
Ryder Cup venues
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 , East Riding of Yorkshire (1949)
Pinehurst Resort , Pinehurst, North Carolina (1951)
Wentworth Club , Virginia Water , Surrey (1953)
Thunderbird Country Club , Rancho Mirage, California (1955)
Lindrick Golf Club , near Sheffield , West Riding of 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)
Real Club Valderrama , 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, 2029)
Le Golf National , Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines , Île-de-France (2018)
Whistling Straits , Haven, Wisconsin (2021)
Marco Simone Golf and Country Club , Guidonia , Rome (2023)
Bethpage Black Course , Farmingdale, New York (2025)
Adare Manor , Adare , County Limerick (2027)
Olympic Club , San Francisco , California (2033)
Congressional Country Club , Bethesda, Maryland (2037)
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