Royal Lytham & St Annes Prints

Linda Hartough's Lytham print is of the 18th, a bunkered par 4 played toward the large red-brick clubhouse where eleven Opens have finished.

Lytham is an unusual links. Houses and a railway line surround it, and although the Irish Sea is close by, it cannot be seen from the course. It is also the only course on The Open rotation that begins with a par 3. What it lacks in views it makes up for in bunkers, which are numerous and placed to catch the ordinary shot as well as the poor one. The golf writer Bernard Darwin called it "a beast of a course, but a just beast." The round finishes at the 18th, a par 4 lined with bunkers and played toward the large red-brick clubhouse.

The first Open at Lytham, in 1926, was won by Bobby Jones. On the 17th he played a long shot from a sandy scrub area to the green on his way to victory, and a plaque marks the spot. The club has hosted The Open eleven times, most recently in 2012; Seve Ballesteros won two of them, in 1979 and 1988. Lytham also hosted the Ryder Cup in 1961 and 1977, the Walker Cup in 2015 and the Women's Open.