The Open Championship

Yes, it is major time again, this week thursday, the pros will bring it on for this years Open Chamionship. As always, we provide you with the latest links and information sources around the tournament.

First of all check out the venue, Royal Liverpool at Hoylake:

• a picture gallery of Hoylake through the years,
• a course guide to Hoylake by BBC Sport or on the official website, and
• facts around Hoylake.

The Golf Blogger put together an interesting list of past open champions and their winning score. Tigers Open win in 2005 can be reviewed in pictures here, the official website even features an RSS-feed of the latest news from Hoylake.

The tee times for thursday were just revealed. Bernhard Langer is the only german in the field, he will start at 08:42 together with Kenny Perry an Paul Lawrie, followed by the flight of Colin Montgomerie, John Daly and Stuart Appleby. Tiger will be off at 14:09 together with Shingo Katayama and Nick Faldo.

Stay tuned for more updates!