Short stuff… The Open


The Returns


CONFIRMATION BY THE R&A IN FEBRUARY THAT WHAT IS ARGUABLY THE GREATEST GOLF TOURNAMENT IN THE WORLD WILL BE STAGED AGAIN AT HOYLAKE IN 2022 WAS GREAT NEWS FOR THE CLUB AND THE WIRRAL.


Royal Liverpool was off the rota for 39 years, but clever planning and shrewd investment created the space necessary for the infrastructure demanded by such a sporting spectacle. The dividend to the local area is huge, not


least because of the income generated by a quarter of a million visitors, but also another global reminder that the peninsula has much to offer golfers and non-golfers alike. The Hoylake Opens of 2006 and 2014 were


never to be forgotten contests, and Royal Liverpool waits with bated breath to welcome the greatest players in the world.


Whose name will be on the Claret Jug in 2022?


Indiana Joe - Raider of the Lost Archive


Archive? Yes. Lost? No - but never let the facts get in the way of a tortuous headline.


While rooting through Royal Liverpool’s old scrapbooks recently, Joe Pinnington came across this long forgotten drawing of a young Horace Hutchinson, about whom you can discover more on page 44 courtesy, once again, of historian and scribe, Joe. Says Joe: “I believe this


drawing was made in the late


1870’s after Horace won the scratch Medal at Royal North Devon or Westward Ho! He was 16 I think so the year would have been 1876. The scrapbooks we have from 1869-1909 are a mine of information and were compiled by Thomas Owen Potter, known as “Tosper”, who was Secretary of the Club


from 1882-1896, and also instrumental in the creation of the first Amateur Championship in 1885.” Incidentally, the shading on


Horace’s face is reminiscent of the markings made on pre-dimple golf balls to improve their aerodynamics. Coincidence? Or a deliberate artistic conceit? Who knows?


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