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The club was founded as a 9-hole links in 1889, a short way down the coast from its current site. Eight years later it moved to its present position.

Its layout has changed a few times in the intervening years. Five-times Open Champion J H Taylor, and course architect Charles Hawtree, supervised Birk-dale's first major reconstruction between 1931 and 1933.

In the early 1960s Birkdale built a new par 3 (12th hole) to replace the short 17th. It meant the course had three par 5s over the final four holes, which gave even championship players a long and demanding finishing stretch.

By The 1983 Open, however, this had changed, as the 18th was shortened from a par 5 to a 472-yard par 4.

For the 1987 Lawrence Batley International, the championship course increased its yardage from 6986 to 7022, as a result of R and A recommendations. The 4th green was turned lengthways to the tee, the 6th was remodelled as a par 5 (it was previously a par 4), and new championship tees were built at the 7th and 16th.